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Affordable Housing May Be Required in San Francisco Redevelopment

Posted by: Nate Berg

8 March 2008 - 5:00am

A measure to require half of all new housing units in San Francisco's planned redevelopment of Bayview-Hunters Point is heading to the city's June ballot. The developer says the measure will kill the project.

"An initiative to require that half of the new homes built as part of a major redevelopment of Bayview-Hunters Point be sold and rented at below-market rates has qualified for San Francisco's June ballot."

"The developer behind the project says that the measure, if successful, would kill plans to remake the troubled neighborhood."

"Supervisor Chris Daly is the major backer of the initiative that mandates half of the 10,000 new homes planned for the Hunters Point shipyard and Candlestick Point be priced at rates affordable to people earning 30 to 80 percent of the city's median income, or $64,267 for a family of four."

Full Story: S.F. housing measure qualifies for June ballot
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle, March 7, 2008
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SPUR Policy Paper on 'Affordable by Design'

Submitted by Irvin Dawid on Mon, 08/25/2008 - 19:57.

San Francisco Urban Research Association offers 6 recommendations in this short policy paper that will help to retain middle class by providing affordable housing that is market rate.
A proposal to create middle income housing in San Francisco

Irvin Dawid, Palo Alto, CA

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Short of erasing existing political and jurisdictional boundaries, citizens and officials need to develop the capacity to work across boundaries according to the "problem-sheds" of the land and water issues we face in the 21st century.
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