State Housing Plan Demands City To Figure How To Fund Enough Affordable Housing

San Francisco CA

08 April, 2022

5:32 PM

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By Annika Hom, Mission Local April 7, 2022 If you think approving a project in San Francisco is difficult, try approving a plan encompassing 82,000 units. That's how much the state mandated San Francisco to build within eight years, and city planners are attempting to meet the 2031 goal while balancing interests of marginalized communities. One major problem looms: Money. "The resources aren't there to get to what we are being asked to do by the state," said Planning Director Rich Hillis at a Planning Commission meeting Thursday. That's a problem. Thanks to new laws, localities who fail to submit plans that meet the state's requirements could lose local control on projects and affordable housing funding. To read the full article, click here. Mission Local covers San Francisco from the vantage point of the Mission, a neighborhood with all of the promise and problems of a major city. You can support Mission Local here.