Supervisors advance resolution urging expanded relocation benefits for Treasure Island residents

The Land Use and Transportation Committee on Oct. 28 forwarded a resolution urging the Treasure Island Development Authority to expand relocation and transition benefits for residents who moved to Treasure Island after the 2011 Disposition and Development Agreement (post‑DDA residents).

Supervisor Matt Haney framed the resolution by noting the island’s large redevelopment — a project that will eventually deliver thousands of housing units — and the concern that many residents who moved to the island after the DDA may lack access to relocation benefits developed for pre‑DDA households. "We have an obligation to take care of the residents of Treasure Island, who are being asked to leave through no fault of their own," Haney said during the meeting.

Bob Beck of the Treasure Island Development Authority described the existing 1 Treasure Island transition housing plan and the transitional housing rules and regulations. Beck said the housing strategy includes about 2,173 planned units with an affordability target averaging below 50% AMI and that the authority expects to develop roughly 435 affordable units in partnership with member agencies such as Swords to Plowshares and Catholic Charities.

Beck outlined proposed changes that would extend certain pre‑marketing opportunities and placement priority to post‑DDA residents, but he said those changes would preserve pre‑DDA residents’ contractual priority and would not extend the in‑lieu payment or guaranteed replacement units to post‑DDA residents unless they income‑qualify. "We're proposing that these benefits extended to post DDA residents be subordinate to the benefits of pre DDA residents," Beck said.

Supervisors pressed staff on key details. Haney asked whether the residency window (after Feb. 2011 and prior to Jan. 2020) could leave people who later move in via roommate arrangements without any benefits for years; he said in no‑fault evictions elsewhere in the city relocation assistance is typically provided. "The city should do just as we ask of any owner move in or anything else, provide some relocation to that person or family, household regardless of their income," Haney said.

Beck provided household counts: TIDA oversees roughly 630–650 households on the island, of which about 250 are currently affordable households. Of the remaining ~380 households, Beck said about 110 are exclusively pre‑DDA, about 80 are mixed households, and roughly 140 are fully post‑DDA households. Staff said they would expand outreach to post‑DDA residents, collect additional income data and continue dialogue on whether in‑lieu payments or other relocation assistance could be extended; Beck said extending in‑lieu payments would likely require amending the transitional housing rules and regulations and consultation with the City Attorney.

Chair Aaron Peskin moved the resolution forward to the full Board with recommendation; the committee took the motion "without objection."

Next steps: TIDA will continue outreach, staff will prepare proposals for the TIDA board and the Board of Supervisors, and the resolution will be considered by the full Board at its next hearing.