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Can In-Law Units Help Solve SF’s Housing Woes?
A new proposed ordinance will allow more “In-Law” Units in Existing Housing. Image: Pixabay. There seem to be two points of view on San Francisco’s frustrating housing situation: either the tech...
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Guest Editorial: Solving Our Housing Crisis Will Take Federal Action
Will it take the feds to solve the Bay Area’s housing woes? Image: Wikimedia Commons. Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance that, if affirmed by the voters, would allow...
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SPUR Talk: What About the Families?
Daniel Parolek, Susan Exline, Doug Shoemaker, and SF Supervisor Norman Yee discuss urban housing that is suitable for families. Image: Streetsblog. How can San Francisco keep families from moving away?...
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SPUR Talk: Scratching Away at the Housing Crisis
Yesterday evening the San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR) held a panel discussion about efforts to provide housing for families. The presentation, held at their...
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YIMBY Asks: How Do We Get the Housing We Need?
“Our planning process is broken,” said San Francisco Planning Commissioner and SPUR SF director Christine Johnson, at a panel discussion last night in the Mission held by the YIMBY party of San...
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SPUR Talk: Why is Housing so Expensive?
The San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), during a lunchtime presentation yesterday, developed a blueprint to bring down Bay Area housing prices in five years, so that...
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Guest Editorial: San Francisco Housing Advocates Need to Control the Infighting
Over the summer, YIMBY–shorthand for ‘Yes-In-My Backyard’–organizers from all over the nation gathered in Oakland to share strategies on how to advance their brand of pro-development urbanism. The...
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ULI Talk: Breaking Through the Housing Deadlock
“The land in this state is like a sponge–it soaks up all the creative ability of the people,” said Kim-Mai Cutler, Operating Partner at Initialized Capital, and a tech journalist. The cost of rent and...
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Amendments to S.B. 827 Help Push Transit Housing Bill Forward
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Transit Housing Bill Dies in Committee
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State Senator Tries Again on Transit Density Housing Bill
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New Transit Housing Bill Racks up Endorsements
San Francisco State Senator Scott Wiener’s transit-oriented housing bill, S.B. 50, the More HOMES Act, is gaining momentum and endorsements. The latest is kind of a natural one–BART. From a release...
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Supervisor Pushes Back Against Density Near Transit
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Open Thread: Will Single-Family Juggernaut Finally Break?
On Wednesday, State Senator Scott Wiener’s transit-density bill, S.B. 50, passed the Senate Governance and Finance Committee by a vote of 6 to 1. “Today we sent a message that the status quo cannot...
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Commentary: Parking Spaces for People
Street safety advocates have shown with Park(ing) Day and WePark that our streets can be put to better use: for people, rather than cars. Some are now asking: could parking spaces be used in some way...
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Advocates Scramble to Keep Transit Housing Bill Active
Senator Scott Wiener’s Transit Housing Bill, S.B. 50, became the victim of politicking yesterday after the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee announced it will become a “two-year bill,”...
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SPUR Talk: Housing Development by the Numbers
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San Francisco Wants to Save a Gas Station?
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Op-Ed: Let’s Get Serious About Housing
Over the last several years, local environmental organizations and their endorsed candidates have ratcheted up ambitions for tackling the climate crisis. We are hearing overdue calls for getting fossil...
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SPUR Talk: The Racist Roots of Single-Family Zoning
Piedmont is a “doughnut city”–separate, but completely surrounded by, Oakland. Piedmont is around two percent Black. And Oakland is 23 percent Black. Piedmont is also “98 percent zoned for...
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