Affordable Housing

Housing measure may be removed from ballot

170 days ago - A controversial charter amendment that would require San Francisco to spend nearly $3 billion to boost The City’s affordable housing stock could be knocked off the November ballot.

Low incomes, low rent at affordable complex sparks alarm, financial questions

236 days ago - An unexpected concentration of poor tenants at Fairfax County’s largest affordable-housing property has sparked worries that lower-than-expected rent revenue will force the county to pump more money into the apartment complex.

Low-wage earners being forced out

299 days ago - For months, Julia Skelly-Hirst has looked for a home.

Initiative to increase below-market-rate housing added to June ballot

306 days ago - A recent petition drive succeeded in adding an initiative to the June ballot which, if passed, would increase the number of below-market-rate homes planned at two major redevelopment sites within Bayview-Hunters Point, at an $800 million cost to developers, according to city officials.

Prices to buy, rent in city climb

321 days ago - Since 2002, more than 10,000 new housing units were created in San Francisco, but the added supply has not reduced the price; the cost to buy a home, as well as rent, is reaching levels experienced during The City’s dot-com days, according to a city report.