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Rules Committee backs ballot measure to authorize up to 10,000 municipal social housing units
Summary
Supervisor Dean Preston told the Rules Committee the measure would clear a path around Article 34 for up to 10,000 municipally owned affordable units; after extended public comment largely in favor, the committee recommended the ordinance to the full Board by unanimous roll call.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules Committee voted to recommend to the full Board a ballot measure that would authorize the City and County of San Francisco to own, develop, construct, acquire or rehabilitate up to 10,000 affordable rental units under Article 34 of the California Constitution.
Supervisor Dean Preston, sponsor of the measure, told the committee the authorization is intended to clear a legal barrier erected by Article 34 — which he called “simply put a racist relic of the redlining era”…
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