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 outside of the federal government and noted that the only substantial asset that the authority can leverage is the land on which its housing sites are built. The report suggested that the agency partner with private developers to comprehensively redevelop and replace some of the current housing sites.

On Tuesday, the mayor is scheduled to submit a balanced budget, which then will be released to other city officials and the public on June 1. Although Newsom wouldn’t disclose the amount he planned on including in the budget for the rebuilding of public housing, he suggested at the press briefing that it would be a “substantial investment” that could help rebuild two of the eight oldest housing sites.

“You’ve got to find cuts elsewhere, but you’ve got to make investments,” Newsom said. “We’re going to prioritize this in our budget and we’ll see if the political will is there on the board.”

Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin said the mayor seemed to be applying a “double standard” for budget decisions, in light of his recent criticism of the Board of Supervisors for passing a $25 million spending plan for affordable housing — $5 million of which would be for the housing authority. According to The City Controller’s Office, San Francisco now faces a $54.7 million deficit next fiscal year, half of it due to the supplemental spending.

beslinger@examiner.com