The federal government has decided that a policy recently approved by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors would have the exact opposite effect of its intentions.
"The Department of Housing and Urban Development has rejected San Francisco’s neighborhood housing preference plan," reports J.K Dineen. The neighborhood preference ordinance was approved in November 2015 "to stem the exodus of African Americans and members of other minority groups from neighborhoods that are rapidly gentrifying."
"The plan seeks to set aside 40 percent of all new subsidized units for qualified people already living in the supervisorial district in which the development is being built or within a half mile of the project," according to Dineen.
HUD argues that the neighborhood preference plan "could 'limit equal access to housing and perpetuate segregation' in violation of the 1968 Fair Housing Act."
According to Dineen, the decision by HUD will have immediate impact on how residents are selected for a 98-unit senior housing development in the Western Addition neighborhood.
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