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Planning department presents housing balance report as supervisors press for equity data
Summary
The Planning Department presented the biannual housing balance and related reports, showing 2019 net additions near 4,700 units and a 21.5% cumulative housing balance (expanded 28.6%). Supervisors and many callers urged more disaggregated data on race, displacement, permit occupancy and 'jobs-housing fit.' Committee forwarded the housing balance report to the full board and continued the hearing on housing needs.
Planning Department staff on July 27 presented multiple housing-monitoring reports to the Land Use & Transportation Committee: the annual housing inventory, quarterly pipeline snapshot, and the biannual Housing Balance Report number 10. Staff said San Francisco added roughly 4,700 net units in 2019 — an 82% increase over the prior year — and that about 31% of last year’s production was affordable (roughly 1,456 units). The housing balance report’s cumulative measure over a 10-year period was 21.5% affordable; an expanded calculation that counts certain rehabs and acquisitions showed 28.6%.
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