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Late San Francisco mayor Ed Lee called the shortage a "housing crisis", [34] and news reports stated that addressing the shortage was the mayor's "top priority". [35] Mayor Ed Lee responded to the shortage by calling for the construction of 30,000 new housing units by 2020, and proposing a $310 million city bond to fund below-market-rate ...
Concerns about housing and crime are dominating San Francisco's mayoral race, an election that gives voters a chance to choose which path they trust to pull their city out of a slump. San ...
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 ...
[60] [52] The resultant high demand for housing, combined with the lack of supply, (caused by severe restrictions on the building of new housing units) has caused dramatic increases in rents and extremely high housing prices, adding to the already developing housing crisis. For example, from 2012 to 2017, the San Francisco metropolitan area ...
San Francisco’s housing market is so broken that billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott made 2 major real-estate donations in a month Sydney Lake October 21, 2023 at 5:00 AM
The city's first ever affordable housing complex for previously homeless residents, Second Street Studios, opened in August 2019. [27] San Jose was one of few cities in America to have rent control laws, which were adopted by the city in 1979. [28] A statewide rent control bill was signed into law by governor Gavin Newsom in October 2019. [29]
San Francisco’s ‘affluent NIMBYs’ aren’t only breaking the law, they’re responsible for California’s housing crisis, state claims Alena Botros, Irina Ivanova October 26, 2023 at 4:59 PM
As a popular organized movement in the United States, the YIMBY movement began in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 2010s amid a housing affordability crisis and has subsequently become a potent political force in local, state, and national [5] [6] politics in the United States. [7] [8]