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Mayor Lee and supervisors push landmark housing package; city highlights homelessness steps
Summary
Mayor Edwin M. Lee outlined a housing blueprint that aims to build 10,000-plus homes and stressed homelessness interventions; the Board advanced housing code changes and supervisors introduced additional inclusionary housing and permitting reforms.
Mayor Edwin M. Lee and members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Tuesday outlined steps intended to expand affordable housing production and to address homelessness across the city.
Lee used his allotted remarks to emphasize a multipronged housing strategy and to preview a package of legislation intended to accelerate permanently affordable housing production. "We launched a blueprint to build an additional 10,000 homes," Mayor Edwin M. Lee said, adding that the administration expects to exceed that goal and to ensure that a third of those homes be permanently affordable to low-income families.
The mayor tied the package to an array of tools, including neighborhood preference for existing residents in rehabilitated public housing sites and preferences for tenants displaced by Ellis Act or no-fault evictions. He also said the city would support 100% affordable developments financed by private-sector initiatives and new incentives for private projects to provide more…
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