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Committee directs MOHCD to analyze effects of veterans priority in affordable housing
Summary
The Land Use & Transportation Committee asked the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development to produce a disparate-impact analysis by Feb. 28, 2022, to assess whether giving veterans priority within existing affordable-housing preference categories would disproportionately affect other protected groups; the committee recommended the measure to the full Board.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on Nov. 29 voted to send to the full Board an ordinance directing the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) to prepare a disparate-impact analysis on granting veterans priority in affordable housing preference categories.
Sponsor Supervisor Gordon Marr said the directive responds to veterans' housing needs in San Francisco, noting "there are approximately 24,000 veterans in our city" and citing the city's 2019 Point-in-Time count that identified about 600 chronically…
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