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Supervisor Chen introduces resolution to develop affordable-housing site strategy
Summary
Supervisor Chen introduced a resolution urging the Planning Department and the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development to finalize an affordable-housing site strategy that identifies, acquires and preserves sites for 100% affordable and preservation projects citywide.
Supervisor Connie Chen introduced a resolution on April 8 urging the city to develop a citywide affordable-housing site strategy to identify and protect sites for 100% affordable and preservation projects.
Chen said the strategy would analyze neighborhood commercial and transit corridors for untapped opportunity sites, including public land and properties owned by religious and nonprofit organizations, and recommend approaches to incentivize and finance acquisition and preservation. She said the strategy relates to the city's housing element policy actions (1.2.2'1.2.6) and to affirmatively furthering fair housing goals.
Why it matters: Chen framed the resolution as a proactive step amid broader rezoning and Housing Opportunity Area discussions. She argued the city needs targeted tools to help nonprofit and community-based developers compete against for-profit developers and investors for sites suitable for fully affordable housing.
The resolution asks the Planning Department and the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) to bring the strategy to the board; Chen thanked co-sponsors and said she looked forward to the departments presenting details to the board.
Outcome at the meeting: The resolution was introduced on the floor; the transcript records the introduction and Chen's remarks and co-sponsorship but does not record a final vote on the item during the April 8 session.
Quotes from the meeting: "As an affordable housing site strategy, it's something that we signed up for in our housing elements in policy actions 1.2.2-1.2.6, and it's critical to achieving our affirmatively furthering fair housing goals," Chen said.
What the resolution does not do: The introduction requests a strategy be developed and presented to the board; it does not appropriate funds or change zoning by itself.
Context: The resolution was introduced after committee reports that included a related Land Use and Transportation Committee ordinance (item 23) on a Special Use District. Chen thanked early cosponsors including Supervisors Fielder and Chan.
