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Mayor’s housing office lays out recommendations to scale affordable production as funding tightens

San Francisco Planning Commission · February 29, 2024
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City housing officials presented an Affordable Housing Leadership Council report that urges more state and federal funding, local process improvements and finance innovations to meet dramatically higher RHNA goals; commissioners and public commenters pressed for clear timelines, land‑banking and protections for existing affordable units.

Dan Adams, director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, presented the Affordable Housing Leadership Council’s recommendations to the San Francisco Planning Commission on Feb. 29, describing a suite of strategies the city should pursue to increase production of very low-, low- and moderate‑income housing.

Adams said the council framed its work around a sharp increase in production goals set by the regional housing needs allocation. “This would represent sort of a fivefold increase in housing production,” he said, and added that San Francisco cannot meet the target…

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