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Supervisor Preston announces Affordable Housing Accountability Act to make housing element goals enforceable
Summary
Supervisor Dean Preston introduced a proposed ordinance to create an enforcement mechanism for the City’s newly adopted housing element, allowing nonprofit plaintiffs to sue the city if it refuses or fails to meet affordable housing commitments.
Supervisor Dean Preston on Tuesday announced the Affordable Housing Accountability Act, an ordinance intended to make San Francisco’s recently adopted 2022 Housing Element goals enforceable. The ordinance would provide a private right of action for nonprofit organizations to sue the city if it refuses or fails to take the steps needed to meet the housing element’s affordable-housing targets.
Preston said the housing element sets an aspirational but concrete production target — roughly 46,500 units of housing across income levels — and warned the city lacks a credible plan and urgency to meet the affordable portion of those goals. He described repeated delays by the mayor’s office in releasing Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs)…
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