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Newsom, supes clash over budget
Newsom, supes budget showdown intensifies
- Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors are in line to have a “showdown” this budget season, as the two face off over a board proposal to spend $28 million of this year’s surplus on affordable housing needs.
- Mayor Gavin Newsom and the Board of Supervisors are in line to have a “showdown” this budget season, as the two face off over a board proposal to spend $28 million of this year’s surplus on affordable housing needs.
Mayor vows to place housing bond on ballot
- Mayor Gavin Newsom, after criticizing the Board of Supervisors for passing new spending measures while The City faces a double-digit deficit, said he plans to carve money out of next year’s budget for one of his priorities — rebuilding The City’s decrepit public housing.
“I’m going to submit a budget that I think reflects the highest needs, the most acute needs of The City,” Newsom said Friday after a media briefing on a new report that outlines the state of San Francisco’s public housing, which the mayor called a “crisis of monumental proportion.”
Newsom has become a champion of rebuilding eight of The City’s most decrepit public housing units within new mixed-income developments, and vows to place a $100 million bond on the November ballot despite recent polling that revealed San Francisco voters are not overwhelmingly receptive to the idea.
According to surveys, including one on Newsom’s campaign Web site, 57 percent of 865 respondents voted against the idea of investing $100 million to repair and rebuild every public housing project.
Kubas Keller Associates, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm that specializes in working with public and subsidized housing providers, conducted the study and confirmed that San Francisco’s Housing Authority faces a fiscal crisis that is compounded by the disrepair and deterioration of many of its housing sites.
The San Francisco Housing Authority must aggressively pursue funding
“I’m going to submit a budget that I think reflects the highest needs, the most acute needs of The City,” Newsom said Friday after a media briefing on a new report that outlines the state of San Francisco’s public housing, which the mayor called a “crisis of monumental proportion.”
Newsom has become a champion of rebuilding eight of The City’s most decrepit public housing units within new mixed-income developments, and vows to place a $100 million bond on the November ballot despite recent polling that revealed San Francisco voters are not overwhelmingly receptive to the idea.
According to surveys, including one on Newsom’s campaign Web site, 57 percent of 865 respondents voted against the idea of investing $100 million to repair and rebuild every public housing project.
Kubas Keller Associates, a Pennsylvania-based consulting firm that specializes in working with public and subsidized housing providers, conducted the study and confirmed that San Francisco’s Housing Authority faces a fiscal crisis that is compounded by the disrepair and deterioration of many of its housing sites.
The San Francisco Housing Authority must aggressively pursue funding
