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Planning Commission adopts MOHCD updates to Inclusionary Affordable Housing procedures manual
Summary
The San Francisco Planning Commission on July 25 adopted updates to the Inclusionary Affordable Housing Program procedures manual that streamline leasing, adjust resale pricing, and add language-access requirements, after extensive public comment on language access and resale pain for existing homeowners.
San Francisco — The Planning Commission on Thursday voted to adopt revisions to the Inclusionary Affordable Housing Program monitoring and procedures manual proposed by the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD).
The manual changes, described at the hearing by Maria Benjamin of MOHCD, are meant to modernize and standardize rules across the city’s inclusionary portfolio, shorten the lease-up timeline and reduce paperwork, and align resale pricing so affordable resale prices better reflect owners’ costs. Benjamin told commissioners MOHCD’s portfolio now includes about 4,125 inclusionary units in 284 projects and that the office has added staff and upgraded digital tools to support applicants and project sponsors.
The revisions include a process allowing developers to apply an applicant’s income verification from one project to another at the developer’s discretion, a reduction in the number of documents required for eligibility and annual recertification, the introduction of a fair…
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