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Supervisors keep group-housing inclusionary rules after public outcry; Wiener withdraws AMI amendment
Summary
After hours of public comment from Tenderloin and SRO advocates, the committee accepted Supervisor Scott Wiener’s withdrawal of an amendment that would have raised the area median income (AMI) cap for inclusionary units and voted to forward the original group-housing inclusionary ordinance to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
The Land Use and Transportation Committee voted Tuesday to move the city’s group-housing inclusionary ordinance to the full Board with a favorable recommendation after Supervisor Scott Wiener said he would withdraw an amendment he had proposed to raise the AMI eligibility level for inclusionary units.
Why it matters: The change would affect which income brackets qualify for below-market-rate units produced as part of new group-housing developments. Advocates and neighborhood groups pressed the committee to apply the inclusionary ordinance to group housing at the ordinance’s existing standard — 55 percent of area median income (AMI) for on-site units — arguing that raising the AMI cap would benefit…
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