The solution to our affordable housing crisis is: To build affordable housing–Faster.
In the last 7 years, San Francisco has built 18,000 market rate units but only 6,000 affordable homes. This imbalance only brings more high income people to San Francisco, pushing prices up for the rest of us. We need more affordable housing, faster. Help us. Join the fight.
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The facts behind the developer propaganda on SOMA housing project
The supes vote wasn't anti-housing; there's a great housing deal on the table that the developer has rejected.
— 48 Hills, 12/6/2021
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Lawsuit seeks to block Plan Bay Area 2050—and prevent gentrification
Petition argues that the sweeping regional planning proposal would displace tens of thousands of vulnerable residents in the name of more high-end development
— 48 Hills, 11/29/21
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NEWS: TODCO Sues over Plan Bay Area, Arguing it will Displace Working Class People
The 30-year roadmap for the Bay would result in the disappearance of the Bay Area’s working class communities of color, and displace hundreds of thousands of long-term residents -- including the essential workers who are vital to the region’s economy -- from their homes
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Poll shows SF voters don’t believe market-rate housing will help crisis
Clear majorities say the city should protect vulnerable communities from luxury housing that causes displacement.
– 48 Hills, 11/15/21 -
S.F. supervisor wants to map out 'sensitive communities' as part of city's future housing goals
As San Francisco plans for its future housing needs, Supervisor Connie Chan is pushing for the city to formally consider the needs of communities at particular risk of displacement.
– San Francisco Business Times 11/10/21 -
Labor, housing activists tell supes: Trickle-down policy is a failure
Hearing on jobs-housing mix makes clear that market-based solutions haven't worked and the city needs a new approach.
– 48 Hills, 11/8/21 -
Report shows housing fails to accommodate low- and middle-income workers
More than 40 percent of workers don’t live in San Francisco, which the report's authors say reflects “the prohibitive costs of market housing.”
– Mission Local, 11/1/21 -
Opinion: Plan Bay Area misses the mark for the working class
If adopted as written, PBA will result in disappearance of working class communities of color.
– The Mercury News, 10/26/21 -
Luxury housing will destroy the last low-income community in Soma
A 27-story 400-unit market-rate housing development at 469 Stevenson, if approved, will drive the gentrification of Soma’s Sixth Street community—the last Soma low-income neighborhood left today—beyond the point of no return.
– 48 Hills, 10/20/21
