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Planning commissioners hear staff briefing on long-range housing strategy as market pressures intensify
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Planning Department staff told the commission the city faces intense housing-pressure dynamics — rapid income growth, high price appreciation and insufficient production — and urged a two-track approach of preserving existing affordable stock while expanding production and regional coordination.
San Francisco — Planning Department staff on Thursday told the Planning Commission that the city’s housing challenge is now driven by unusually strong regional economic forces and requires both local preservation and increased production.
Gil Kelly, director of citywide planning, opened the presentation by urging the commission to treat housing as a long-range policy problem and to coordinate with neighboring jurisdictions. “We are really in an extremely dynamic environment now,” Kelly said, outlining population and job-growth trends that he said were reshaping housing demand.
Kirsten Dissinger, chief housing policy coordinator, summarized actions underway, including regulatory streamlining, a proposed catalyst fund to mobilize affordable-housing finance, and proposed changes to the city’s affordable-housing program to make off-site options…
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