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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
[85] [86] The average monthly rent in San Diego has risen to $3,175, placing it as the third-highest in the nation, only $7 less than that of San Francisco. [87] Housing affordability has declined over the last three decades; as of 2018, less than a third of Californians could afford a median-priced home; in job centers such as the San ...
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.
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.