Supervisor introduces affordable housing site‑strategy resolution to speed identification and preservation of sites

Supervisor Connie Chan introduced a resolution on April 8 urging San Francisco officials to develop and present an "affordable housing site strategy" that would identify and prioritize publicly owned and other suitable sites for affordable housing development and preservation.

Chan said the strategy would be informed by community needs, financial feasibility and programmatic realities and would recommend tools such as incentives, public‑land reuse, acquisition approaches and public‑private partnerships. She said the policy is tied to the city's housing element and fair housing obligations and noted that "throughout our neighborhood commercial and transit corridors, there are many untapped opportunity sites for affordable housing and housing preservation projects."

The introduction asked the Planning Department and the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development to complete the strategy and present it to the board. Supervisor Chan thanked early co‑sponsors Supervisor Fielder and Supervisor Connie Chen. The item was introduced for consideration; no final board vote on adopting the strategy was recorded at the meeting.

Chan said the resolution would help ensure the city pursues parcels and programmatic approaches that can compete with for‑profit developers and investor buyers, and that it would include recommendations on public lands, religious and nonprofit property, rezoning and acquisition practices.

The board did not take final action on the resolution at the meeting; supervisors generally expressed support during introductions.