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Mayor says city must speed affordable housing production; cites high per‑unit costs and new leadership council
Summary
Mayor London Breed told supervisors that San Francisco needs to accelerate affordable housing production and has convened an affordable housing leadership council; she cited 50,000 approved units citywide (about 15,000 affordable) and per‑unit construction costs that she said range from roughly $650,000 to $1.1 million.
Mayor London Breed told the Board of Supervisors on March 7 that San Francisco needs to increase production capacity for affordable housing and that her administration has directed staff to convene an affordable housing leadership council to help chart a path forward.
"We have over 50,000 units that have been approved and are not being built in a pace that at least gives us 5,000 units a year," Breed said, adding that about 15,000 of the approved units are designated affordable. She said construction costs and regulatory barriers make San Francisco one of the most expensive places to build and…
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