The proposed agency would coordinate planning and financing around housing, as well as support affordable housing production.
San Francisco may soon have a new city department: Supervisor Myrna Melgar is looking to establish an agency to coordinate planning, financing and policy around housing. Currently titled the Department of Housing Development and Preservation, the agency would also support “affordable and market-rate housing production,” Kelly Waldron writes for Mission Local.
“Presently, the closest thing the city has to a housing department is the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, a wing within the mayor’s office. The proposed Department of Housing Development and Preservation would expand the mayor’s housing office into a bona fide department, similar to New York City’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, Melgar’s office shared,” Mission Local reports.
Mylar is also working to speed up the rollout of bike lanes in the city, and to introduce legislation that would create a program to support housing co-ops.
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