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Committee advances ballot measure to prioritize affordable housing on surplus city land
Summary
The Land Use and Transportation Committee unanimously adopted amendments and advanced to a further hearing a ballot measure that would expand San Francisco—s surplus property ordinance to prioritize affordable housing, including a first preference for units serving people formerly homeless and households at or below 20% of AMI.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee, chaired by Supervisor Malia Cohen, unanimously approved amendments and voted to continue consideration of a ballot measure that would expand the city—s surplus property ordinance to prioritize affordable and middle-income housing on public sites.
Supervisor Jane Kim, the measure—s primary author, told the committee the measure would strengthen an ordinance first adopted by the board in 2002 and amended in 2005 and said the ballot approach would give the public a clearer mandate. "This ballot measure is adding another tool in our toolbox to address the city's housing crisis," Kim said, adding she would introduce a set of clarifying amendments that had been distributed to committee…
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