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Committee advances housing-balance monitoring ordinance requiring biannual reports and neighborhood breakdowns
Summary
The Board committee forwarded Supervisor Kim’s ordinance requiring the Planning Department to publish a 10-year cumulative housing-balance count and biannual reports (by March 1 and Sept. 1, with the first report due 2015-06-01). The measure passed the committee with unanimous recommendation amid broad public support.
Supervisor Kim introduced an ordinance directing the Planning Department to monitor the city’s housing balance and publish a biannual report tracking the ratio of new affordable housing to all new housing over a 10-year period. "We want this to inform the actual solutions," Kim said, urging a data-driven foundation for the city’s affordable-housing goals and for an expected affordable-housing bond this fall.
The ordinance defines affordable categories by household income bands and requires the report to account for losses of affordable units, including rent-controlled and SRO units. Kim said the report will publish data by supervisorial district, plan area and neighborhood and recommended an initial report deadline of June 1, 2015. Deputy City Attorney Marlena Byrne questioned language about Board acceptance and recommended requiring the Board to hold a hearing, a change the offices reconciled in edits read into the record.
Planning Department staff member Kimia Haredon told the committee the reports will provide "updates on the balance between the new market rate housing and the new affordable housing" and supported a six-month cadence (March 1 and Sept. 1) for ongoing reporting. The ordinance also requires the Planning Department to publish the data online and report to the Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors.
Public testimony was overwhelmingly in favor. "All we're asking for is the data," said Shriraj Bhakta of the Mission Neighborhood Collaborative. Several speakers described displacement in the Mission and Bayview and urged the Board to move quickly; a child speaker, Robert, recounted his family’s homelessness after losing their home in San Francisco.
Supervisor Kim moved the amendments and a positive recommendation to the full Board; the motion passed unanimously. The ordinance will next be scheduled for consideration by the Board of Supervisors.
