February 11, 2020
“Rethinking The Suburbs” is an essay series seeking to advance the public understanding of housing conditions in the Bay Area suburbs. Part I of the series started in 2018. The series explores housing strategies in the context of the post-Great Recession period of the past decade that has set up our current policy environment.
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January 8, 2020
In our first blog post of 2020, CCHO identifies some of the biggest barriers in solving our affordability challenges, followed by next steps toward solutions.
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October 10, 2019
Addressing our residents’ housing needs, like addressing health-care, education, or climate change adaptation, is an ongoing battle, with many solutions brought to bear at the right times and in the right places. But as with climate change, we can’t wait long for solutions. Propositions A and E, funding and land, are part of that battle and are two great big opportunities to win!
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September 15, 2019
A recent Jobs-Housing Nexus Study found that for every 100,000-square-foot office development, at least 81 new affordable housing units are needed just to house the lower wage workers in those offices, not counting all the contract employees such as janitors
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August 1, 2019
MOHCD’s leadership transition opens an opportunity to reflect on the department’s roots in community development while also responding to the tidal wave of evictions and exploding housing costs brought on by the tech economy.
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July 7, 2019
SF Examiner published an op-ed on an upcoming housing package on the November 2019 ballot, penned by CCHO alongside affordable housing and anti-displacement advocates.
June 20, 2019
Come out this Thursday, February 14 (VDAY) to the Planning Commission informational hearing on the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA). There will be space for public comment BEFORE the hearing where you will be able to express how important it is to preserve existing housing and ensure affordable housing for all!
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June 5, 2019.
This is a critical time for San Francisco’s housing future. The investment is not only an opening for a long-term strategy to protect our existing residents and house our future generations, but a critical down-payment, and a big one, toward tackling this affordability crisis.
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April 8, 2019
The Jobs-Housing Linkage (JHL) fee provides much needed funding to provide housing for these workers since their wages do not allow them to afford market-rate housing, essentially partially mitigating the impact of increased housing needs that new commercial development projects create.
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March 31, 2019
Passing COPA is the next big step in a comprehensive community stabilization and affordable housing strategy, one that begins with addressing people where they are at: in their homes.
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December 13, 2018
The most important package of development policies for the Bay Area — that you’ve probably never heard of — is being decided today.
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November 11, 2018
Tuesday’s election was a victory for affordable housing at the state and local ballot.
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May 10, 2018
A big change is coming to South of Market: The Central SoMa Plan is before the Planning Commission today.
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March 28, 2018
Earlier this month, the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development pulled the funding on an affordable housing development in Forest Hill.
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March 15, 2018
The housing challenge for the next San Francisco mayor will be not only to expand Mayor Ed Lee’s successes in building affordable housing, but also to address the increasing mismatch between housing affordability and the job growth generated by the economic boom that unfolded under Lee’s watch.
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December 18, 2017
A week before the North Bay fires broke out, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission convened a blue-ribbon committee, named CASA, to identify “game-changing regional solutions to the Bay Area’s chronic housing affordability challenges.”
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October 10, 2017
An important and often overlooked factor in the state’s affordability crisis is the dramatic drop in single-family housing production in California over the past 10 years. We break this down in the first part of this series.
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October 8, 2018
To great fanfare, Gov. Jerry Brown last Friday finally signed a “package” of housing measures. The political logjam that had stymied affordable housing bills finally broke, with more than a dozen housing bills making it through this year.
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September 12, 2017
Last December, we wrote about the gift that Santa Claus brought to real estate developers in San Francisco: the ability to use recent changes in state density bonus law to increase heights and densities 35 percent above the existing zoning, with no additional public benefit.
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