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As of 2022, San Francisco had the slowest permitting process of any large city in the United States, with the first stage taking an average of 450 calendar days, and the second stage can take 630 days for typical multi-family housing, or 860 days for a single-family house. [17]
The prevalence of homelessness grew both in San Francisco and throughout the United States in the late 1970s and early '80s. [10] Jennifer Wolch identifies some of these factors to include the loss of jobs from deindustrialization, a rapid rise in housing prices, and the elimination of social welfare programs. [11]
(The Center Square) – According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, San Francisco permitted zero homes in November 2024, with just 744 homes permitted in the consolidated ...
A homeless camp in San Francisco, 2017. San Francisco has a significant and visible homelessness problem, with an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 people experiencing homelessness. Most of them—61%—became homeless while living and working in San Francisco. [123] Many avoid shelters due to concerns about violence and discrimination.
The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the most unaffordable places to live in the US. A new report explores several solutions that could alleviate the Bay Area's affordable housing crisis, namely ...
Most cities have homeless problems and lots of vacant housing units, but everything is magnified in San Francisco. Last year, there were 7,700 people living in shelters or on the street in the ...
In 2017, the median price of a home in California was more than 2.5 times the median in the U.S. as a whole, and in California's coastal urban areas, the shortage was greater than the inland areas, as demonstrated by the median prices of homes in those respective markets: $1.3M in San Francisco, $1M in San Jose, and $600k in Los Angeles, while ...
One of the seven projects at issue, a rehabilitation of an 84-unit public housing complex in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley neighborhood, will offer two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments for ...