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Hearing on affordable-housing timelines highlights five‑year norm, streamlining tools and remaining bottlenecks
Summary
Deputy Director Dan Adams and city planning and building staff described a typical five-year affordable-housing development timeline and priority-processing steps; public commenters and supervisors urged clearer department liaisons and faster, coordinated action to reduce delays to projects that could house vulnerable residents.
Supervisor Jane Kim (introducing) and Supervisor Hillary Ronen convened a detailed hearing on accelerating the pipeline for affordable housing. Deputy Director Dan Adams of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development said the office currently sees a typical five-year timeline for projects — site acquisition and predevelopment in year one, entitlements and zoning work in year two, permits and final financing in year three, and roughly two years for construction — and said the office would like to shorten that timeline. “We generally look at about a 5 year timeline,” Adams said.
Adams and other staff described challenges that lengthen timelines, including…
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