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Planning Department: 2018 housing inventory shows sharp dip in production, large pipeline of authorized units
Summary
City planning staff told the commission the city added roughly 2,579 net housing units in 2018 (about 2,700 new units completed) — a 40% drop from 2017 — while about 23,100 units are expected to be completed in the next five years; commissioners and public pressed for more data on occupancy, entitled vs. built units, and SB 50 impacts.
Swetha Ambati, a planner in the department's Information & Analysis Group, presented the 2018 Housing Inventory to the San Francisco Planning Commission, saying "the construction of new housing in 2018 totaled about 2,700 units," which the department described as about a 40% decrease from the prior year. Ambati told commissioners the city recorded a net addition of 2,579 units in 2018 after accounting for demolitions and other losses.
The presentation traced permit and pipeline activity: about 6,100 units were permitted in 2018, 88% for buildings with 20 or more units; roughly 8,070 net units were under construction at the end of the quarter and another 8,700 were in projects with building permits. Ambati said "about 24% of…
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