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Committee advances neighborhood-preference ordinance for affordable housing, raises preference to 40% and refers live/work amendment to planning commission
Summary
After extended public comment and staff presentations, the committee removed the displaced-tenant preference for separate study, amended the ordinance to raise the proposed neighborhood preference from 25% to 40%, duplicated the file to add a live/work citywide preference to be reviewed by the Planning Commission, and continued the main file for one week for additional MOHCD data.
Supervisor London Breed introduced an ordinance to clarify and expand preferences for affordable housing allocation — preserving existing certificate-of-preference (COP) and Ellis Act preferences while creating a neighborhood geographic preference and an expanded displaced-tenant priority. Breed framed the measure as remedying long-standing inequities in access to affordable housing for longtime residents.
Planning and Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) staff described the recommendations that emerged from two planning commission hearings. MOHCD recommended splitting the ordinance so the displaced-tenant preference would be handled separately while a geographic preference would be considered now, proposing a 25% preference at the supervisorial-district level (with a…
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