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Supervisors back sending veterans housing priority ordinance to full board after cost questions
Summary
The committee voted to send an ordinance that would give veterans priority inside each of San Francisco’s four affordable‑housing preference categories to the full Board; the Budget & Legislative Analyst said implementation would likely take about a year, 2,600 hours of work and a one-time cost in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
San Francisco’s Government Audit and Oversight Committee on July 7 voted to send an ordinance to the full Board that would add a veterans priority inside each existing affordable‑housing preference category, a change supporters say will reduce veteran homelessness.
Supervisor Gordon Marr, sponsor of the measure called the Veterans Affordable Housing Access Act, said the ordinance would not create a new preference but would give veterans who meet existing preference categories priority within those categories for below‑market-rate rental and home‑ownership programs. "This is tremendously important legislation that will prevent…
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