Get Full Government Meeting Transcripts, Videos, & Alerts Forever!
Planning staff: San Francisco housing pipeline is large but completion pace and construction costs raise concerns
Summary
Planning Department briefing showed nearly 70,600 units in the city’s pipeline (about 20% affordable) with ~7,460 under construction; presenters warned that high construction costs, labor constraints and financing gaps keep many entitled projects from reaching building permits.
Planning Department staff briefed the commission on economic trends and the city’s housing pipeline, presenting a mixed picture: a large pipeline but a significant gap between entitled projects and those being built.
Miriam Chon, the department’s housing policy program manager, said the city’s long growth cycle had slowed from about 5% to roughly 2% growth and flagged a construction-cost index more…
Already have an account? Log in
Subscribe to keep reading
Unlock the rest of this article — and every article on Citizen Portal.
- Unlimited articles
- AI-powered breakdowns of topics, speakers, decisions, and budgets
- Instant alerts when your location has a new meeting
- Follow topics and more locations
- 1,000 AI Insights / month, plus AI Chat
