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Planning department finds a large jobs-housing mismatch; committee asks for follow-up and funding discussion
Summary
Planning's first Jobs-Housing Fit report (covering 2009–2019) found a sizable shortfall in housing relative to job growth and projected a cumulative deficit that will require billions in local funding; the committee continued the item to request an update on integration into the housing element.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee on Dec. 13 heard the Planning Department’s first Jobs-Housing Fit report, a data-driven look at whether housing production in San Francisco matched the city’s job growth.
Joshua Slutsky of the Planning Department summarized the retrospective analysis covering 2009–2019: the city added roughly 211,000 jobs during that decade, which the department estimates generated demand for about 154,000 housing units. Planning found the city met substantially less than that demand — less than 20% of need was met over the period — leaving an estimated unmet need of about 124,000 housing units, including roughly 54,000 affordable units.
The department’s forward-looking assessment — based on the development pipeline and supplemented by regional job projections — produced a cumulative deficit of roughly 106,000 units…
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