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Hearing: Officials say San Francisco faces ~9,000 'missing middle' unit shortfall; local funding and tax‑credit limits constrain remedies
Summary
A multi‑agency hearing heard that the city has greatly under‑produced housing serving households between roughly 50–120% AMI, with staff citing a current RHNA shortfall of about 9,000 units; speakers urged new revenue sources and state/federal policy changes to expand middle‑income production.
The Land Use & Transportation Committee on Dec. 4 held a multi‑agency hearing on workforce and middle‑income housing needs. Sponsor Supervisor Safaie said the city has done well producing market‑rate housing but poorly on housing aimed at households between roughly 55%–175% area median income and called for policy and programmatic solutions.
Sarah Dennis Phillips (Office of Economic & Workforce Development) defined 'workforce' or 'middle‑income' households as those above 60% AMI who are nonetheless cost‑burdened in San Francisco; she cited…
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