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Several residents have called the complex home for decades and are relieved they won’t have to leave anytime soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This means that we can stay, and it just makes it seem more stable and less stressful,” said Alana Herron, who has lived in a two-bedroom apartment at 3235 16th Street for nearly 30 years with her husband. 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To get there, the city has been focused on cutting red tape to make development easier and quicker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also recently passed a rezoning plan that now allows for taller and more dense building construction, particularly in residential neighborhoods like the Sunset and Richmond, where previous zoning laws restricted height limits.[aside postID=news_12066539 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-19-BL-KQED.jpg']The city’s plan aims to create capacity for at least 36,000 units, just a portion of the overall total, since the city has already approved roughly 43,000 units that have yet to be developed. But critics of the plan have pointed out that there are few mechanisms in the plan itself to ensure that low-income housing is prioritized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preserving rent-controlled units was one of the most controversial elements of the rezoning plan. In order to make way for new and larger housing, developers can demolish existing properties. Supervisor Myrna Melgar proposed an amendment that was adopted into the plan to remove buildings with three or more rent-controlled units from demolition; however, efforts from Supervisor Connie Chan to remove all of the city’s rent-controlled units from the plan did not pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the demolition of rent-controlled buildings in the city is rare, it is still possible under the new plan, if the Planning Commission approves such proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the Community Land Trust effort say their approach offers an additional model for the city to preserve affordable housing by keeping residents in the homes they can afford.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just as we’re trying to \u003cem>build\u003c/em> more affordable housing, we’re \u003cem>losing\u003c/em> affordable housing units either through demolitions or repositioning of properties being sold and rehabbed and becoming a lot more expensive to new residents,” said Aboubacar Ndiaye, executive director of the Northern California Land Trust, a land trust formed in 1973 that owns affordable properties throughout the Bay Area. “[The land trust model] allows us to create an incentive for cities to consider equity rehab as part of an all-of-the-above strategy to address the affordable housing need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12058554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12058554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/003_KQED_SanFrancisco_RentStrike_03312020_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “For Rent” sign on a house in the Mission District of San Francisco on March 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva (D-La Palma) authored AB 670 with the intention of growing affordable housing stock across the state by encouraging preservation of existing homes. The idea is to allow jurisdictions to make units that are up for sale permanently affordable by giving residents and land trusts the first opportunity to buy, rather than sell to market-rate developers and lose rent-controlled housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The model has seen an uptick in interest across the Bay Area, state and country as housing needs grow more pressing, and places like New York City just recently passed their own version, the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, giving tenants the first chance to purchase rental buildings if they go up for sale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While every project is different, acquisitions by Community Land Trusts, such as those happening in San Francisco, reflect the type of preservation-focused approach AB 670 is designed to support, helping cities meet housing goals while keeping existing residents in their communities,” Quirk-Silva said in a statement.[aside postID=news_12067581 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/RefrigeratorsGetty.jpg']San Francisco’s Small Sites Program launched in 2014 and provides loans for acquisition and preservation projects like the recent project in the Mission District at 16th and Guerrero streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, overseen by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, focuses on smaller, rent-controlled buildings and helps convert the property into permanently affordable housing to combat gentrification.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco’s culture is rooted in the people who have built their lives here over decades. When long-term residents, artists and families are displaced, our neighborhoods lose the social and cultural fabric that makes them unique,” said Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, who represents the neighborhood for the building at 16th and Guerrero. “SFCLT’s acquisition of this building is the kind of proactive, community-centered housing strategy we need to stabilize residents, prevent displacement and ensure that the people who create San Francisco’s cultural legacy can remain in the neighborhoods that shaped their work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As part of the new ownership with the land trust, residents will see a slight increase in rent over several years, but that’s projected to be far less than if the building were sold and converted to market-rate housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be a modest rent increase, but it’s still going to be extremely affordable for us,” said Robert Geller, Herron’s husband.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said having rent control allowed his family to keep their beloved Victorian apartment as prices around them skyrocketed. A musician and former city worker, he’s relieved to have a place where he can continue to grow older.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San Francisco has an aging population,” he said. “It means a lot that we can stay in our building and not have to find a new place to live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/uc-berkeley\">UC Berkeley\u003c/a> selected nonprofit housing developer Satellite Affordable Housing Associates on Thursday to build a 100-unit permanent supportive housing facility on People’s Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move marks a step forward in a decades-long battle, involving \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981358/uc-berkeleys-plan-to-build-housing-on-peoples-park-heads-to-california-supreme-court\">lengthy legal disputes\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971858/berkeley-locals-lament-the-closure-of-peoples-park-as-shipping-container-barricades-go-up\">charged protests\u003c/a> between neighbors, activists and university police, over repurposing some of the park’s space, which remains a symbol of political activism at the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The development will house people exiting homelessness and those who qualify for low-income housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This project has been in development since 2018, when our former Chancellor, Carol Christ, really took the initiative to create a new vision and future for People’s Park,” UC Berkeley spokesperson Kyle Gibson said. “Through an extensive amount of community engagement and planning, [we] put together a very comprehensive plan to really meet the needs of the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit developer will now finalize the project’s plans and will present them to the university in the coming months. The supportive housing project promises to provide residents with on-site services, including case management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066836\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066836\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1134\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED-160x91.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251211-PEOPLES-PARK-RENDERINGS-02-KQED-1536x871.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The university will work with Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, a Bay Area nonprofit, to build the permanent supportive housing project on Berkeley’s People’s Park. A rendering of the proposed permanent supportive housing project that will include at least 100 units for people exiting homelessness and for low-income residents. \u003ccite>(LMS Architects/Hood Design Studio)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The supportive housing facility will stand next door to an 11-story student dormitory that the university \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998188/uc-berkeley-quietly-starts-construction-at-peoples-park-capping-decades-of-conflict\">quietly started constructing\u003c/a> in July 2024. The dorm, called the \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2025/08/28/student-housing-at-peoples-park-to-be-named-after-judith-heumann-disability-rights-leader/\">Judith E. Heumann House\u003c/a>, is expected to provide housing for more than 1,100 undergraduates and is slated to open in the fall of 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university is also preparing to start construction on another dorm on Bancroft Way, called the Bancroft-Fulton Student Housing project, which would replace an administrative building. It is slated to bring more than 1,600 beds online when it is expected to open in summer 2028.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson said those projects will increase the university’s housing capacity by more than 50% since it launched its student housing initiative in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university plans to preserve more than 60% of the green space in People’s Park, Gibson said. UC Berkeley professor and landscape architect Walter Hood is designing the park space, which will commemorate the park’s history.[aside postID=news_11998188 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240731-PEOPLES-PARK-CONSTRUCTION-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Some of the \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/history-commemoration\">ideas\u003c/a> Hood’s firm is considering include a memorial walkway mimicking the path protestors walked in May 1969, murals on the outside of buildings and displays of historic photos. The firm is expected to share those plans next year, according to university officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gibson said the permanent supportive housing facility will begin construction only after the student housing and park is completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimated the project would cost about $55 million to complete. It already has an estimated $31.1 million in earmarked funding from local and state sources. Gibson said the nonprofit developer has started applying for additional cash from county, state and federal funds that support affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Originally, Berkeley-based developer Resources for Community Development was slated to develop the supportive housing project, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972108/uc-berkeleys-housing-project-in-peoples-park-still-needs-a-developer\">quit\u003c/a> shortly after an appellate court ruled the university couldn’t move forward until it evaluated other possible development sites and assessed potential noise impacts to students and other neighbors as part of its environmental review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, university officials said the project’s legal issues brought costly delays to developers working on it. Months after the appellate court’s decision, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989237/uc-berkeley-can-start-building-on-peoples-park-california-supreme-court-rules\">California Supreme Court \u003c/a>overturned that decision and cleared the way for construction to start.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Satellite Affordable Housing Associates is honored to have been selected by UC Berkeley to develop and operate supportive and affordable housing as a key component of the People’s Park housing project,” Susan Friedland, CEO of Satellite Affordable Housing Associates, said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Until now, this meant they could only place people with hosts in other counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t ever, as San Franciscans want to say, ‘we are looking to other counties for services that our families here in San Francisco need,” said Danielle Harris, an attorney with the city’s Public Defender’s Office.[aside postID=news_12055960 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250909-UCBINCARCERATED-01-BL-KQED.jpg']During the program, participants receive case management to help them find a job and a more permanent place of their own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is at the heart a way to address homelessness, and homelessness and reentry are overlapping issues,” Butler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She cited a grim statistic from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/housing.html\">2018 report\u003c/a> by the Prison Policy Initiative: Formerly incarcerated people are nearly ten times more likely to experience homelessness than the general population.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a real way for community members to help solve this issue by opening up their homes, and they’re also able to do something, and that’s transformative and really help someone,” Butler said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 200 people have graduated from the Homecoming Project since its inception, and the program claims that 98% of participants have graduated with either a job or an “education opportunity” and that none have returned to prison while in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Homecoming Project is now looking for hosts in San Francisco. 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The organization said no one living in the city has signed up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066211\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12066211 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251113-SFHOMECOMINGPROJECT-21-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philippe Kelly, a Homecoming Project participant, speaks during a press conference about the launch of the Homecoming Project in San Francisco at the San Francisco Public Defender’s office on Nov. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Philippe Kelly, who was incarcerated for six years at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center, was placed in transitional housing in Oakland after release. He said he wasn’t happy with that living arrangement, so he’s grateful he was able to find housing through The Homecoming Project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly said the first step involved touring potential homes and meeting the hosts. He recalled being pleasantly surprised that he would actually get a say in where he might live.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gives you an opportunity to engage with the host to see if it’s gonna be a good fit or not, versus, we’ll just stick you here without another option, because if it doesn’t work out, what happens then?” Kelly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After touring a house that wasn’t a good fit, he met Vaughn and her husband. 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"content": "\u003cp>Andie Rounds’ Novato home is blue, two stories, with white trim around the windows and doors. In the backyard, her son grows summer vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But her favorite part might be the small balcony off the master bedroom, where she can people-watch and look out over a nearby hill. “And I love sitting on it — especially when it’s a little colder, and I’ll sit there with my cup of coffee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This home, now a source of comforts both big and small, was very nearly not hers. In 2016, she won a literal lottery for the chance to purchase it at an affordable price, an opportunity made possible by Habitat for Humanity’s Greater San Francisco chapter with help from a state grant program called CalHome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As homeownership remains out of reach for many — with just \u003ca href=\"https://www.car.org/marketdata/data/haitraditional\">17% of Californians\u003c/a> able to afford a typical single-family home — CalHome is an outlier. It offers rare state funding for the construction of affordable homes to buy, rather than rent, and supports first-time homebuyer and home repair programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2024, the state allocated \u003ca href=\"https://www.grants.ca.gov/grants/2024-homeownership-super-nofa/\">around $170 million\u003c/a> to CalHome and a farmworker housing program, and on Monday \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/12/08/governor-newsom-helps-provide-more-than-a-thousand-californians-with-homes/\">issued the grants\u003c/a>, which will benefit nearly 1,200 households in 22 counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But funding was cut from the current state budget, and advocates are urging it be replenished with as much as $500 million in the coming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066259\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1899px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066259\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1899\" height=\"1266\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-03-KQED.jpg 1899w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1899px) 100vw, 1899px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andie Rounds inside her Novato home in August 2024. She was able to purchase the affordable home, in part, because of state funding through the CalHome grant. Advocates are calling for more funding for the program after it was zeroed out in this year’s budget. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is not money that’s going to go into a black hole,” said Maureen Sedonaen, CEO of Habitat Greater San Francisco. “This is people’s lives you’re going to see that get transformed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds had been renting an apartment in Novato in 2016, when her property manager told her the company wouldn’t renew her lease.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It felt as though the rug was getting pulled out from under her. A night nurse and single mom with three kids — a toddler and two girls in middle school — she was worried her family could be forced to leave with little notice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was mad,” Rounds said. “It was that feeling of insecurity and, ‘Oh my goodness, what’s going to happen to my family?’ You know, what do I do?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She learned about Habitat’s lottery about a month later, while scrolling on Facebook. It was the day before applications were due. She rushed to submit hers with mere hours to spare.[aside postID=news_12065708 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Then, on the day of the drawing, her number came up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just burst out crying. I mean, going from a feeling of insecurity and instability to like, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m gonna be able to provide stability for my children,’” Rounds recalled. “That feeling — every parent deserves to have that feeling.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds was vying for one of just 10 spots. Sedonaen said Habitat lotteries are typically vastly oversubscribed, with hundreds of applicants for very few homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My colleagues are seeing this all throughout the state,” Sedonaen said, referring to Habitat’s 33 chapters statewide, “because so many people are looking for permanent affordable housing and the opportunity to become a first-time homeowner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habitat’s program isn’t a give-away, Sedonaen said. Participants have to complete more than 100 hours of training in financial literacy and home maintenance. And, they actually help build their homes — what Habitat calls sweat equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not Oprah,” she said. “It’s not like, ‘You get a house, and you get a house!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habitat’s San Francisco chapter doesn’t require homeowners to put any money down and offers a no-interest loan for the mortgage. Payments are structured so owners pay no more than a third of their income on total expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding from CalHome subsidizes about 30% of the total cost, Sedonaen said. But with this year’s funding cut, she said some 500 homes statewide that Habitat has queued for construction won’t be able to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11768320 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_7728-e1566159751750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People with Habitat for Humanity help build a tiny home in San José, California, on Aug. 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there aren’t many other state programs that support that kind of work, said Sosan Madanat, a lobbyist with W Strategies LLC. Besides CalHome, only the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/funding/fwhg\">Joe Serna Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant\u003c/a> provides funding for the construction of affordable, for-sale housing, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is why it has been so detrimental to organizations like Habitat that build affordable homeownership projects,” Madanat said. “It’s the funding they rely on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other homebuyer assistance programs — such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976218/california-will-help-fund-the-down-payment-for-your-first-house-heres-how-to-apply\">California Dream for All\u003c/a> program, which offers shared equity down payments. But Madanat said that while it helps on the demand side, allowing prospective homebuyers to better compete on the private market, it doesn’t help with the supply side, ensuring there are enough affordable homes available to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a projected \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091\">$18 billion state budget deficit\u003c/a> looming in the upcoming fiscal year, along with expected federal funding cuts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/how-massive-federal-cuts-will-create-unprecedented-challenges-medi-cal-patients-providers/\">myriad\u003c/a> social services, it’s unclear whether California will allocate more money to the program in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andie Rounds and her son, Eli, outside their Novato home with their dog, Luna, in August 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Funding is probably one of the biggest things that we could do to make it easier for folks like Habitat to build. But given the current financial outlook of the state, it’s much more challenging to do that,” Madanat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence that the ability to purchase an affordable home leads to \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1540-6229.t01-2-00053\">better\u003c/a> outcomes for kids, particularly in educational attainment, school attendance and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds said having predictable monthly payments allowed her to focus on her career and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FM198J7D?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_R4RT8JSMPJ4PHH31FCCQ&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_R4RT8JSMPJ4PHH31FCCQ&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_R4RT8JSMPJ4PHH31FCCQ&bestFormat=true&csmig=1\">publish a book\u003c/a>. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer two years after moving in, her home was a source of stability during her recovery, she said. “Every morning I would wake up, open my eyes, look up and be grateful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds gets emotional when she talks about her two daughters. Being able to save money meant she could afford to send them to college. When it came time to move them into dorms, she was able to buy furnishings and get them settled in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the pride in it,” Rounds said. “I have no words really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They graduated this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, that’s huge,” she said, “to be able to say that was all possible because of our home and the stability it provided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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And, they actually help build their homes — what Habitat calls sweat equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not Oprah,” she said. “It’s not like, ‘You get a house, and you get a house!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Habitat’s San Francisco chapter doesn’t require homeowners to put any money down and offers a no-interest loan for the mortgage. Payments are structured so owners pay no more than a third of their income on total expenses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State funding from CalHome subsidizes about 30% of the total cost, Sedonaen said. But with this year’s funding cut, she said some 500 homes statewide that Habitat has queued for construction won’t be able to move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11768320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11768320 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/IMG_7728-e1566159751750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People with Habitat for Humanity help build a tiny home in San José, California, on Aug. 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sara Hossaini/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there aren’t many other state programs that support that kind of work, said Sosan Madanat, a lobbyist with W Strategies LLC. Besides CalHome, only the \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/funding/fwhg\">Joe Serna Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant\u003c/a> provides funding for the construction of affordable, for-sale housing, according to the California Department of Housing and Community Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is why it has been so detrimental to organizations like Habitat that build affordable homeownership projects,” Madanat said. “It’s the funding they rely on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are other homebuyer assistance programs — such as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976218/california-will-help-fund-the-down-payment-for-your-first-house-heres-how-to-apply\">California Dream for All\u003c/a> program, which offers shared equity down payments. But Madanat said that while it helps on the demand side, allowing prospective homebuyers to better compete on the private market, it doesn’t help with the supply side, ensuring there are enough affordable homes available to purchase.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a projected \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5091\">$18 billion state budget deficit\u003c/a> looming in the upcoming fiscal year, along with expected federal funding cuts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/resource/how-massive-federal-cuts-will-create-unprecedented-challenges-medi-cal-patients-providers/\">myriad\u003c/a> social services, it’s unclear whether California will allocate more money to the program in the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066257\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066257\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/20251205-CALHOME-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andie Rounds and her son, Eli, outside their Novato home with their dog, Luna, in August 2024. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Funding is probably one of the biggest things that we could do to make it easier for folks like Habitat to build. But given the current financial outlook of the state, it’s much more challenging to do that,” Madanat said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is evidence that the ability to purchase an affordable home leads to \u003ca href=\"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1540-6229.t01-2-00053\">better\u003c/a> outcomes for kids, particularly in educational attainment, school attendance and health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds said having predictable monthly payments allowed her to focus on her career and even \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FM198J7D?ref=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_R4RT8JSMPJ4PHH31FCCQ&ref_=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_R4RT8JSMPJ4PHH31FCCQ&social_share=cm_sw_r_ffobk_cp_ud_dp_R4RT8JSMPJ4PHH31FCCQ&bestFormat=true&csmig=1\">publish a book\u003c/a>. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer two years after moving in, her home was a source of stability during her recovery, she said. “Every morning I would wake up, open my eyes, look up and be grateful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rounds gets emotional when she talks about her two daughters. Being able to save money meant she could afford to send them to college. When it came time to move them into dorms, she was able to buy furnishings and get them settled in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And the pride in it,” Rounds said. “I have no words really.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They graduated this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And, that’s huge,” she said, “to be able to say that was all possible because of our home and the stability it provided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> will allow taller and more dense buildings in some residential and commercial corridors after the Board of Supervisors approved the mayor’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065204/everything-you-need-to-know-about-san-franciscos-family-zoning-plan\">Family Zoning Plan\u003c/a> on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The controversial plan aims to create capacity for 36,000 new units, particularly in the quiet and residential neighborhoods on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown\">west and north sides of the city\u003c/a>, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12065615/san-franciscos-north-and-westside-residents-sound-off-on-housing-plan\">resisted major housing changes\u003c/a> for decades. It comes as the state is mandating that the city make way for new homes to keep up with population changes and affordability challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Too many families and young people are wondering if they’ll be able to stay in the city they call home,” Mayor Daniel Lurie said in a statement. “Our Family Zoning plan will help us add housing, protect small businesses, and maintain the character of the neighborhoods that make San Francisco so special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Family Zoning Plan passed 7–4, with supervisors Rafael Mandelman, Bilal Mahmood, Myrna Melgar, Danny Sauter, Matt Dorsey, Stephen Sherrill and Alan Wong voting yes; Supervisors Jackie Fielder, Chyanne Chen, Connie Chan and Shamann Walton voted no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rezoning initiative is one of the first-term mayor’s key legislative tests as a political newcomer. It had widespread support from Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) advocates, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco Apartment Association, the urban policy nonprofit SPUR and the Bay Area Council, who stress the need for more housing to boost affordability for future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A one-bedroom in the city now rents for more than $3,200 a month, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/san-francisco-ca/?bedrooms=1\">Zillow\u003c/a>, more than twice the \u003ca href=\"https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/united-states/?bedrooms=1\">national average\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving St. in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The Family Zoning Plan reflects a city that welcomes families, builds for the future, and supports neighborhoods where everyone can afford to stay and put down roots,” said Graeme Joeck, director of advocacy for Abundant San Francisco, in a statement. The pro-housing group has been cultivating support for the plan for months, including at house parties, picnics and flyering on sidewalks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But critics of the plan, including neighborhood groups and tenants’ rights activists, point out that it does little to actually produce affordable housing, and contend it invites real estate speculation that risks pushing out low-income families and small businesses while disrupting neighborhood charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This does not solve the affordability crisis that we have in San Francisco,” said Chen, who represents the Excelsior neighborhood. “We shouldn’t have to be reminded of the harm that redevelopment did to communities in the past.”[aside postID=news_12065204 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-10-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Richard Toshiyuki Drury, an environmental attorney, submitted a letter to the Board on behalf of the local group Neighborhoods United ahead of Tuesday’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rezone opens up thousands of rent-controlled units for high-density, market-rate development, virtually ensuring that thousands of low-income residents will be displaced to make way for luxury housing,” it read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other groups said the city isn’t offering enough resources for businesses that could be forced to relocate or close because of new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a small business were to call the Office of Small Business today with a request for assistance from a non-renewal of their lease, there are no immediate grants or loans available through the envisioned construction mitigation fund,” said Nick Parker, owner of Mercury Cafe and a board member of the progressive business coalition Small Business Forward, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analyses of the plan suggest mixed results for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">actual amount of housing\u003c/a> the plan might lead to, due to economic constraints and costs. Supervisors at Tuesday’s meeting acknowledged that rezoning alone won’t fix the city’s housing problems and said that funding and enhanced financing mechanisms are equally essential to opening new units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, supervisors have put forward amendments to the plan in an effort to limit displacement, protect small businesses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057448/on-sfs-west-side-a-push-to-protect-historic-landmarks-amid-plans-for-more-housing\">local landmarks\u003c/a>, and alleviate other concerns residents have raised in community forums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For months, my team and I have worked with the supervisors and communities across the city to make sure this plan meets our state obligations in a way that works for our neighborhoods,” Lurie said. “I am grateful to all the residents and leaders who came to those events, shared their feedback, and helped us strengthen this plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Melgar’s proposal to exempt buildings with three or more rent-controlled units from demolition was included in the plan passed on Tuesday. The exemption will shield about 80,000 rent control units from demolition. Some rent-controlled units could still potentially be bulldozed to make way for denser development, but that would first require approval from the Planning Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The southeast side of the city, including the Mission District, has seen vastly more market-rate development than well-resourced parts of San Francisco,” said Fielder, whose district includes the Mission. “In the Mission District, this has meant the displacement of around 12,000 Latinos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who represents the Richmond District, made a last-minute push on Tuesday for an amendment to protect all rent-controlled units from demolition, but it failed to pass by a 7–4 margin. Supervisors opposing the change said it risked putting the plan out of compliance with the state by removing units from the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People and vehicles cross the intersection of Geary Boulevard and Webster Street in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m disappointed where we are at,” Chan said at Tuesday’s meeting. “I’m disappointed that we are not choosing the path to negotiate or frankly even fight some of these [state] mandates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, San Francisco downzoned swaths of the city to limit housing construction on the west side while concentrating most new development to east-side neighborhoods like South of Market and the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new plan changes zoning rules for about 96,000 parcels, but does not upzone universally across the city. It enables moderate height increases of two to four additional stories, primarily near transit lines or other commercial corridors on the west side. It also allows for high rises between 12 and 65 stories on select major thoroughfares, such as Van Ness Avenue, Market Street and Geary Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have always been supportive of bringing more housing options to my district,” Melgar said. “The west and north side of the city built very little housing … In this rezoning, we are building a more equitable and accessible tomorrow.”[aside postID=news_12065615 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251201-SF-Rezoning-Vibe-Check-MD-01.jpg']City officials were facing a state mandate to pass the rezoning plan by Jan. 31, 2026. Overall, the city must add 82,062 additional housing units for different income levels by 2031. That total can include the roughly 43,000 units that are approved and at various stages of development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law also requires at least 15% of new homes to be affordable, which is a family of four earning less than $156,650 in San Francisco, according to income limits set by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the city fails to pass a rezoning plan, the state could withhold funding for housing and other public services, and could also remove local decision-making around development projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the meeting, supervisors across the political spectrum acknowledged the importance of remaining in compliance with the state and supported incentivizing housing development that keeps families in the city and makes room for more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do we choose to pull up the ladder behind us because we already have our slice of San Francisco?” said Sauter, who represents North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong, the 38-year-old Sunset District resident who was appointed by Lurie as the District 4 representative to the Board of Supervisors on Monday following the ousting of former Supervisor Joel Engardio, said he will consider introducing legislation that could address some residents’ concerns, but that he supports the plan because it allows the city to maintain local control over the housing-production process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t offer our own solution, Sacramento will dictate zoning for us, and we will lose local control, which is unacceptable,” Wong said. “At the same time, it is my commitment to follow through with trailing legislation and potential amendments as I gather feedback as I begin my term as supervisor for this district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Richard Toshiyuki Drury, an environmental attorney, submitted a letter to the Board on behalf of the local group Neighborhoods United ahead of Tuesday’s vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The rezone opens up thousands of rent-controlled units for high-density, market-rate development, virtually ensuring that thousands of low-income residents will be displaced to make way for luxury housing,” it read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other groups said the city isn’t offering enough resources for businesses that could be forced to relocate or close because of new development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a small business were to call the Office of Small Business today with a request for assistance from a non-renewal of their lease, there are no immediate grants or loans available through the envisioned construction mitigation fund,” said Nick Parker, owner of Mercury Cafe and a board member of the progressive business coalition Small Business Forward, in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Analyses of the plan suggest mixed results for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">actual amount of housing\u003c/a> the plan might lead to, due to economic constraints and costs. Supervisors at Tuesday’s meeting acknowledged that rezoning alone won’t fix the city’s housing problems and said that funding and enhanced financing mechanisms are equally essential to opening new units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few months, supervisors have put forward amendments to the plan in an effort to limit displacement, protect small businesses and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057448/on-sfs-west-side-a-push-to-protect-historic-landmarks-amid-plans-for-more-housing\">local landmarks\u003c/a>, and alleviate other concerns residents have raised in community forums.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12059031\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12059031\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie speaks at a rally on the steps of City Hall in San Francisco on Oct. 7, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“For months, my team and I have worked with the supervisors and communities across the city to make sure this plan meets our state obligations in a way that works for our neighborhoods,” Lurie said. “I am grateful to all the residents and leaders who came to those events, shared their feedback, and helped us strengthen this plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Melgar’s proposal to exempt buildings with three or more rent-controlled units from demolition was included in the plan passed on Tuesday. The exemption will shield about 80,000 rent control units from demolition. Some rent-controlled units could still potentially be bulldozed to make way for denser development, but that would first require approval from the Planning Commission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The southeast side of the city, including the Mission District, has seen vastly more market-rate development than well-resourced parts of San Francisco,” said Fielder, whose district includes the Mission. “In the Mission District, this has meant the displacement of around 12,000 Latinos.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan, who represents the Richmond District, made a last-minute push on Tuesday for an amendment to protect all rent-controlled units from demolition, but it failed to pass by a 7–4 margin. Supervisors opposing the change said it risked putting the plan out of compliance with the state by removing units from the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230907-RightToReturn-25-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People and vehicles cross the intersection of Geary Boulevard and Webster Street in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m disappointed where we are at,” Chan said at Tuesday’s meeting. “I’m disappointed that we are not choosing the path to negotiate or frankly even fight some of these [state] mandates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1978, San Francisco downzoned swaths of the city to limit housing construction on the west side while concentrating most new development to east-side neighborhoods like South of Market and the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new plan changes zoning rules for about 96,000 parcels, but does not upzone universally across the city. It enables moderate height increases of two to four additional stories, primarily near transit lines or other commercial corridors on the west side. It also allows for high rises between 12 and 65 stories on select major thoroughfares, such as Van Ness Avenue, Market Street and Geary Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have always been supportive of bringing more housing options to my district,” Melgar said. “The west and north side of the city built very little housing … In this rezoning, we are building a more equitable and accessible tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>City officials were facing a state mandate to pass the rezoning plan by Jan. 31, 2026. Overall, the city must add 82,062 additional housing units for different income levels by 2031. That total can include the roughly 43,000 units that are approved and at various stages of development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law also requires at least 15% of new homes to be affordable, which is a family of four earning less than $156,650 in San Francisco, according to income limits set by the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if the city fails to pass a rezoning plan, the state could withhold funding for housing and other public services, and could also remove local decision-making around development projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the meeting, supervisors across the political spectrum acknowledged the importance of remaining in compliance with the state and supported incentivizing housing development that keeps families in the city and makes room for more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do we choose to pull up the ladder behind us because we already have our slice of San Francisco?” said Sauter, who represents North Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong, the 38-year-old Sunset District resident who was appointed by Lurie as the District 4 representative to the Board of Supervisors on Monday following the ousting of former Supervisor Joel Engardio, said he will consider introducing legislation that could address some residents’ concerns, but that he supports the plan because it allows the city to maintain local control over the housing-production process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we don’t offer our own solution, Sacramento will dictate zoning for us, and we will lose local control, which is unacceptable,” Wong said. “At the same time, it is my commitment to follow through with trailing legislation and potential amendments as I gather feedback as I begin my term as supervisor for this district.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors are \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/bag120225_agenda.pdf\">expected to vote\u003c/a> Tuesday on whether to allow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown\">more and taller buildings citywide\u003c/a>, especially in the city’s residential western and northern neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called the Family Zoning Plan, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s upzoning proposal aims to make way for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">some 36,000 new homes\u003c/a>. California cities are facing a mandate from state officials to make way for more housing and have until Jan. 31, 2026, to approve a plan or face lawsuits and a loss in state funding, among other consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, development would be concentrated along transit corridors and busy thoroughfares. It would also allow more housing construction in neighborhoods like the Sunset, Marina and Richmond districts, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown%20https:/www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown\">maintained a somewhat suburban character\u003c/a> for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Board of Supervisors races to approve the plan before the January deadline, residents in the Fillmore, Inner Sunset and Outer Sunset neighborhoods spoke to KQED about what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057448/on-sfs-west-side-a-push-to-protect-historic-landmarks-amid-plans-for-more-housing\">the change\u003c/a> could mean for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he was a boy, Todd Wanerman dreamt of living in San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood. Clement Street, to be precise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063291\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica DeSouza (left) and Todd Wanerman (right) pose for a portrait on Clement Street in the Richmond district in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2025. SF’s proposed rezoning would add more housing to SF’s Northern and Western neighborhoods and some residents are for it while others fear displacement. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Marin County, Wanerman would occasionally come to the city with his father when he was a kid. Before heading back home, his father would take him to Norman’s Kingdom of Toys, a since-shuttered toy store in the Inner Richmond district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I swear I can remember standing right there on 8th and Clement thinking, ‘This is where I’m going to live when I grow up,’” Wanerman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made that dream a reality in 2021, when he moved into a house on Clement Street with his partner, Erica DeSouza. They love being close to Golden Gate Park and the beach. Wanerman is not opposed to taller buildings on his block but hopes his neighborhood maintains its lively charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much going on culturally — in terms of food and the farmers market,” he said. “I’m excited about the change. I just hope that we can think about preserving what makes this neighborhood so special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie Williams, a resident of Pacific Heights for 40 years, poses for a portrait on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights in San Francisco on Nov. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leslie Williams has enjoyed living in San Francisco’s Fillmore District for the past 40 years. She lives in a rent-controlled unit inside a house with a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re part of the city, but we’re also a neighborhood,” she said. “It’s not like being in the Financial District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She particularly likes the low-slung character of her street; most of the buildings on her side of town are only a couple of stories tall, and she can see plenty of trees and the night sky when she goes for evening walks. She’s worried about what will happen if developers tear down existing buildings to construct newer, taller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they tear down stuff to build something higher — I just totally disagree with that,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063286\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Melanie Picardo, her daughter Lily, and her mother Melva Aguirre pose for a portrait at a farmers market on 37th Avenue in the Sunset District in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Melanie Picardo was growing up in the Outer Sunset District, everyone thought the area was uncool, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were not any cool restaurants, people didn’t really come out here,” Picardo said. “It almost felt suburban, very detached from San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she lives in Noe Valley with her children and husband, but she visits the farmers market on Sundays with her mom, Melva Aguirre, who still lives in the Outer Sunset. Picardo is supportive of the Family Zoning Plan and wants more families to have the opportunity to live where she grew up. But her mom doesn’t agree. Aguirre worries that more people mean more traffic and more disruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be crowded, and it’s gonna be more susceptible to crime,” Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063285\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hardeep Singh (left) and Darya Bolgova (right) pose for a portrait at a farmers market on 37th Avenue in the Sunset District in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Darya Bolgova always wanted to live in the Inner Sunset District. Four years ago, she and her husband, Hardeep Singh, snagged a pandemic deal for an apartment near Golden Gate Park. Now they bike and walk around the neighborhood as much as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that everything is super accessible. We both have cars, and we use them very rarely because we could walk somewhere or take public transit,” she said. “It’s just very alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolgova grew up in Moscow and enjoys the hustle and bustle of cities. She hopes that, if more housing is built, it is largely subsidized and affordable, rather than a bunch of luxury apartments. But she is supportive of the upzoning plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The houses are nice and cute, but we can keep some and build up for the rest of the people to enjoy it, too,” Bolgova said. “It’s a city. We should look like a city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors are \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/bag120225_agenda.pdf\">expected to vote\u003c/a> Tuesday on whether to allow \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown\">more and taller buildings citywide\u003c/a>, especially in the city’s residential western and northern neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Called the Family Zoning Plan, Mayor Daniel Lurie’s upzoning proposal aims to make way for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062042/report-projects-weak-housing-production-under-san-francisco-zoning-plan-over-next-20-years\">some 36,000 new homes\u003c/a>. California cities are facing a mandate from state officials to make way for more housing and have until Jan. 31, 2026, to approve a plan or face lawsuits and a loss in state funding, among other consequences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, development would be concentrated along transit corridors and busy thoroughfares. It would also allow more housing construction in neighborhoods like the Sunset, Marina and Richmond districts, which have \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown%20https:/www.kqed.org/news/12033966/sfs-single-family-home-neighborhoods-apartments-65-story-towers-downtown\">maintained a somewhat suburban character\u003c/a> for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the Board of Supervisors races to approve the plan before the January deadline, residents in the Fillmore, Inner Sunset and Outer Sunset neighborhoods spoke to KQED about what \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057448/on-sfs-west-side-a-push-to-protect-historic-landmarks-amid-plans-for-more-housing\">the change\u003c/a> could mean for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since he was a boy, Todd Wanerman dreamt of living in San Francisco’s Richmond neighborhood. Clement Street, to be precise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063291\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063291\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00922_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erica DeSouza (left) and Todd Wanerman (right) pose for a portrait on Clement Street in the Richmond district in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2025. SF’s proposed rezoning would add more housing to SF’s Northern and Western neighborhoods and some residents are for it while others fear displacement. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Born and raised in Marin County, Wanerman would occasionally come to the city with his father when he was a kid. Before heading back home, his father would take him to Norman’s Kingdom of Toys, a since-shuttered toy store in the Inner Richmond district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I swear I can remember standing right there on 8th and Clement thinking, ‘This is where I’m going to live when I grow up,’” Wanerman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made that dream a reality in 2021, when he moved into a house on Clement Street with his partner, Erica DeSouza. They love being close to Golden Gate Park and the beach. Wanerman is not opposed to taller buildings on his block but hopes his neighborhood maintains its lively charm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s so much going on culturally — in terms of food and the farmers market,” he said. “I’m excited about the change. I just hope that we can think about preserving what makes this neighborhood so special.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063297\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063297\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN00040_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie Williams, a resident of Pacific Heights for 40 years, poses for a portrait on Fillmore Street in Pacific Heights in San Francisco on Nov. 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leslie Williams has enjoyed living in San Francisco’s Fillmore District for the past 40 years. She lives in a rent-controlled unit inside a house with a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re part of the city, but we’re also a neighborhood,” she said. “It’s not like being in the Financial District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She particularly likes the low-slung character of her street; most of the buildings on her side of town are only a couple of stories tall, and she can see plenty of trees and the night sky when she goes for evening walks. She’s worried about what will happen if developers tear down existing buildings to construct newer, taller ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they tear down stuff to build something higher — I just totally disagree with that,” Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063286\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063286\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00838_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Melanie Picardo, her daughter Lily, and her mother Melva Aguirre pose for a portrait at a farmers market on 37th Avenue in the Sunset District in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Melanie Picardo was growing up in the Outer Sunset District, everyone thought the area was uncool, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were not any cool restaurants, people didn’t really come out here,” Picardo said. “It almost felt suburban, very detached from San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now she lives in Noe Valley with her children and husband, but she visits the farmers market on Sundays with her mom, Melva Aguirre, who still lives in the Outer Sunset. Picardo is supportive of the Family Zoning Plan and wants more families to have the opportunity to live where she grew up. But her mom doesn’t agree. Aguirre worries that more people mean more traffic and more disruptions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be crowded, and it’s gonna be more susceptible to crime,” Aguirre said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063285\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063285\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251102-SFREZONINGPLAN_00807_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hardeep Singh (left) and Darya Bolgova (right) pose for a portrait at a farmers market on 37th Avenue in the Sunset District in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Darya Bolgova always wanted to live in the Inner Sunset District. Four years ago, she and her husband, Hardeep Singh, snagged a pandemic deal for an apartment near Golden Gate Park. Now they bike and walk around the neighborhood as much as they can.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I like that everything is super accessible. We both have cars, and we use them very rarely because we could walk somewhere or take public transit,” she said. “It’s just very alive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bolgova grew up in Moscow and enjoys the hustle and bustle of cities. She hopes that, if more housing is built, it is largely subsidized and affordable, rather than a bunch of luxury apartments. But she is supportive of the upzoning plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The houses are nice and cute, but we can keep some and build up for the rest of the people to enjoy it, too,” Bolgova said. “It’s a city. We should look like a city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003ch2>What is the Family Zoning Plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rezoning plan is a proposed set of changes to the city’s rules for building new housing in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>. The plan aims to increase housing by legalizing the development of more and taller buildings, with a focus on the city’s western and northern neighborhoods that currently have restrictive development policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new zoning rules would give housing developers more flexibility to build, but the plan itself does not include any housing developments or mandate new housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the city changing its zoning plan now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California state law requires that San Francisco adopt an updated zoning plan by Jan. 31, 2026, in order to keep up with increasing population and demographic changes. The rezoning plan is also required under the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/project/housing-element-update-2022\">Housing Element\u003c/a>, a set of policies aimed at guiding where and how the city’s future housing should be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many new units does the city need to add, and by when, to meet state requirements?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco needs to allow for 82,062 additional housing units for different income levels by 2031. Some 43,000 units that the city has already approved, but that have yet to be developed, are included in the tally of total units. The city’s plan aims to create capacity for at least 36,000 units for various income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When is the deadline to pass the new plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under state law, San Francisco must adopt its new zoning plan by Jan. 31, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/fzp-land-use-committee-amendments.pdf\">amendments\u003c/a> to the plan could be adopted at its final review at the Land Use and Transportation Committee on Dec. 1, or when the plan goes before the full Board of Supervisors for a vote on Dec. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065323\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED-1536x994.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s proposed rezoning plan aims to add thousands of new homes, primarily on transit and commercial corridors on the westside and northern neighborhoods. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Planning Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What happens if the city doesn’t adopt a new zoning plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If San Francisco fails to adopt a new zoning plan by January 2026, the state could withhold millions of dollars in grant funding that the city relies on to build affordable housing projects, public transit and other city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/housing-choice/what-happens-if-we-dont-rezone.pdf\">risks losing local control\u003c/a> over development plans, meaning the state could force approval of so-called “builder’s remedy” projects, a legal mechanism that allows developers to bypass local zoning limits around building height and density.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many of these new units must be affordable?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Family Zoning Plan is consistent with state law requiring at least 15% of new homes to be affordable. The city’s Planning Department estimates that of the 82,062 units needed, 32,881 should be affordable for low-income households, which is a family of four earning less than $156,650 in San Francisco, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/income-limits-2025.pdf\">income limits set by the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It requires 13,717 units for moderate-income households, meaning a family of four earning around $223,900 and 35,471 for above-moderate income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which parts of the city are slated to be upzoned and by how much?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state housing mandate requires that the city emphasize development of new housing in neighborhoods that have historically rejected or lacked new and affordable housing.[aside postID=news_12064764 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/20251113_RainFolo_GH-7_qed.jpg']The Family Zoning Plan applies to nearly 96,000 parcels primarily along transit corridors in the city’s western and northern neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does not upzone universally across the city, and avoids parts of the city’s eastern and southern neighborhoods that have been rezoned in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan allows for increases of two to four additional stories in specific areas, primarily near transit lines or other commercial corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also allows for high rises between 12 and 65 stories on select major thoroughfares, such as on Van Ness Avenue, Market Street and Geary Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/6e0e399f9c82456dbda233eacebc433d/\">An interactive map of the city’s proposed zoning changes can be viewed here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can rent-controlled units be demolished under this plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. However, buildings with three or more rent-controlled units are exempt from upzoning in the current version of the plan after a recently adopted amendment. But supervisors have tabled other \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/fzp-land-use-committee-amendments.pdf\">proposed amendments\u003c/a> that could exempt additional rent-controlled buildings from the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current city policy, the Planning Commission must approve the demolition of rent-controlled units. About 18 housing units were demolished per year from 2012–24.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will small businesses be affected or protected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plan aims to give displaced small businesses priority for available commercial space and guidance for relocation. It also states small business owners will receive early notifications about projects, as well as financial resources such as grants, waived permit fees and relocation incentives for new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12022236 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment window looks out above Columbus Cafe on Green Street in North Beach on Jan. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does the plan protect historic buildings or resources?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State and federal landmarks are prohibited from being demolished under the plan. Local landmarks are also exempt from the upzoning plan, after an amendment was adopted into the plan in November. The plan also offers developers incentives, such as additional square footage and code flexibility, for projects that reuse and preserve historic structures that cannot be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long has this been in the works? How did the city collect feedback?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The target of 80,000+ units originated from the city’s housing element process, which started around 2019. The Association of Bay Area Governments, the regional planning agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, determined the final allocation in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2023, the city has \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/housing-choice/housingchoice_community_engagement_summary.pdf\">gathered community feedback\u003c/a> on the plan through public meetings, one-on-one interviews, online forums and surveys, focus groups and other in-person and remote workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will this plan ACTUALLY lead to more housing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ultimate aim of the rezoning plan is to make way for thousands of additional housing units. The plan, however, does not include any specific development plans or blueprints. By loosening height and density regulations, the plan’s authors assume that developers will have more flexibility to build in areas that currently restrict development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to financial and economic uncertainty, estimates for how much housing might actually result from the zoning changes vary. The Planning Department estimates that the plan could realistically open up to 19,000 units; however, modeling from the city’s Chief Economist suggests that it could produce only around 14,600 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie alongside members of the team behind a new housing project during a groundbreaking ceremony in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of two affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Who is backing the plan and who is opposing it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Family Zoning Plan is a key agenda item for Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has received support from several supervisors as well as Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) advocates, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco Apartment Association, the urban policy nonprofit SPUR, and the Bay Area Council, which argue the plan will be necessary to meet state requirements and build enough housing for future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some supervisors have said the plan doesn’t include enough protections for renters and small businesses who may have to relocate if future development plans are successful. Groups like Neighborhoods United SF have said the plan risks displacing lower-income residents and small businesses while lacking plans for financing affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tension over the plan has echoed in community meetings and public hearings where residents have shared their support and concerns. It’s also been a major factor in the recent recall of former District 4 supervisor Joel Engardio, who supported the rezoning plan, and Lurie’s appointment of his replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has the city ever done this before?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Redevelopment is continuously shaping the cityscape. One major example is the urban renewal push beginning in the 1950s after President Harry Truman signed the 1949 Housing Act, which authorized reconstruction and demolition of primarily low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, such as the Fillmore in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Family Zoning Plan is one of the largest efforts to focus specifically on height and density rules in San Francisco since the 1978 Residential Rezoning, which put strict limits on development in nearly half of the city to preserve low-rise residential neighborhoods and single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003ch2>What is the Family Zoning Plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The rezoning plan is a proposed set of changes to the city’s rules for building new housing in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>. The plan aims to increase housing by legalizing the development of more and taller buildings, with a focus on the city’s western and northern neighborhoods that currently have restrictive development policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new zoning rules would give housing developers more flexibility to build, but the plan itself does not include any housing developments or mandate new housing production.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is the city changing its zoning plan now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California state law requires that San Francisco adopt an updated zoning plan by Jan. 31, 2026, in order to keep up with increasing population and demographic changes. The rezoning plan is also required under the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/project/housing-element-update-2022\">Housing Element\u003c/a>, a set of policies aimed at guiding where and how the city’s future housing should be built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many new units does the city need to add, and by when, to meet state requirements?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>San Francisco needs to allow for 82,062 additional housing units for different income levels by 2031. Some 43,000 units that the city has already approved, but that have yet to be developed, are included in the tally of total units. The city’s plan aims to create capacity for at least 36,000 units for various income levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When is the deadline to pass the new plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Under state law, San Francisco must adopt its new zoning plan by Jan. 31, 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/fzp-land-use-committee-amendments.pdf\">amendments\u003c/a> to the plan could be adopted at its final review at the Land Use and Transportation Committee on Dec. 1, or when the plan goes before the full Board of Supervisors for a vote on Dec. 2.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065323\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065323\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1294\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251125-PROPOSED-ZONING-MAP-KQED-1536x994.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s proposed rezoning plan aims to add thousands of new homes, primarily on transit and commercial corridors on the westside and northern neighborhoods. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of the San Francisco Planning Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>What happens if the city doesn’t adopt a new zoning plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>If San Francisco fails to adopt a new zoning plan by January 2026, the state could withhold millions of dollars in grant funding that the city relies on to build affordable housing projects, public transit and other city services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/housing-choice/what-happens-if-we-dont-rezone.pdf\">risks losing local control\u003c/a> over development plans, meaning the state could force approval of so-called “builder’s remedy” projects, a legal mechanism that allows developers to bypass local zoning limits around building height and density.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many of these new units must be affordable?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Family Zoning Plan is consistent with state law requiring at least 15% of new homes to be affordable. The city’s Planning Department estimates that of the 82,062 units needed, 32,881 should be affordable for low-income households, which is a family of four earning less than $156,650 in San Francisco, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/default/files/docs/grants-and-funding/income-limits-2025.pdf\">income limits set by the state\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It requires 13,717 units for moderate-income households, meaning a family of four earning around $223,900 and 35,471 for above-moderate income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Which parts of the city are slated to be upzoned and by how much?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state housing mandate requires that the city emphasize development of new housing in neighborhoods that have historically rejected or lacked new and affordable housing.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Family Zoning Plan applies to nearly 96,000 parcels primarily along transit corridors in the city’s western and northern neighborhoods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It does not upzone universally across the city, and avoids parts of the city’s eastern and southern neighborhoods that have been rezoned in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan allows for increases of two to four additional stories in specific areas, primarily near transit lines or other commercial corridors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also allows for high rises between 12 and 65 stories on select major thoroughfares, such as on Van Ness Avenue, Market Street and Geary Boulevard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/6e0e399f9c82456dbda233eacebc433d/\">An interactive map of the city’s proposed zoning changes can be viewed here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Can rent-controlled units be demolished under this plan?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes. However, buildings with three or more rent-controlled units are exempt from upzoning in the current version of the plan after a recently adopted amendment. But supervisors have tabled other \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/fzp-land-use-committee-amendments.pdf\">proposed amendments\u003c/a> that could exempt additional rent-controlled buildings from the plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under current city policy, the Planning Commission must approve the demolition of rent-controlled units. About 18 housing units were demolished per year from 2012–24.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How will small businesses be affected or protected?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The plan aims to give displaced small businesses priority for available commercial space and guidance for relocation. It also states small business owners will receive early notifications about projects, as well as financial resources such as grants, waived permit fees and relocation incentives for new developments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022236\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12022236 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250113_North-Beach_DMB_02319-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An apartment window looks out above Columbus Cafe on Green Street in North Beach on Jan. 13, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>How does the plan protect historic buildings or resources?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>State and federal landmarks are prohibited from being demolished under the plan. Local landmarks are also exempt from the upzoning plan, after an amendment was adopted into the plan in November. The plan also offers developers incentives, such as additional square footage and code flexibility, for projects that reuse and preserve historic structures that cannot be demolished.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How long has this been in the works? How did the city collect feedback?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The target of 80,000+ units originated from the city’s housing element process, which started around 2019. The Association of Bay Area Governments, the regional planning agency for the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area, determined the final allocation in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2023, the city has \u003ca href=\"https://sfplanning.org/sites/default/files/documents/citywide/housing-choice/housingchoice_community_engagement_summary.pdf\">gathered community feedback\u003c/a> on the plan through public meetings, one-on-one interviews, online forums and surveys, focus groups and other in-person and remote workshops.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Will this plan ACTUALLY lead to more housing?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The ultimate aim of the rezoning plan is to make way for thousands of additional housing units. The plan, however, does not include any specific development plans or blueprints. By loosening height and density regulations, the plan’s authors assume that developers will have more flexibility to build in areas that currently restrict development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to financial and economic uncertainty, estimates for how much housing might actually result from the zoning changes vary. The Planning Department estimates that the plan could realistically open up to 19,000 units; however, modeling from the city’s Chief Economist suggests that it could produce only around 14,600 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044983\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044983\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NEWTEACHERHOUSING-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Daniel Lurie alongside members of the team behind a new housing project during a groundbreaking ceremony in San Francisco on June 18, 2025. The event marked the start of two affordable housing developments — one with 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and another that will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Who is backing the plan and who is opposing it?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Family Zoning Plan is a key agenda item for Mayor Daniel Lurie, who has received support from several supervisors as well as Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) advocates, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, San Francisco Apartment Association, the urban policy nonprofit SPUR, and the Bay Area Council, which argue the plan will be necessary to meet state requirements and build enough housing for future generations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some supervisors have said the plan doesn’t include enough protections for renters and small businesses who may have to relocate if future development plans are successful. Groups like Neighborhoods United SF have said the plan risks displacing lower-income residents and small businesses while lacking plans for financing affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tension over the plan has echoed in community meetings and public hearings where residents have shared their support and concerns. It’s also been a major factor in the recent recall of former District 4 supervisor Joel Engardio, who supported the rezoning plan, and Lurie’s appointment of his replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Has the city ever done this before?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Redevelopment is continuously shaping the cityscape. One major example is the urban renewal push beginning in the 1950s after President Harry Truman signed the 1949 Housing Act, which authorized reconstruction and demolition of primarily low-income neighborhoods and communities of color, such as the Fillmore in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Family Zoning Plan is one of the largest efforts to focus specifically on height and density rules in San Francisco since the 1978 Residential Rezoning, which put strict limits on development in nearly half of the city to preserve low-rise residential neighborhoods and single-family homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a> housing officials are cheering the opening of a new affordable apartment complex adjacent to a once massive homeless encampment in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a>, but the celebration has been dampened by looming cuts to federal housing funding by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected leaders and advocates for the unhoused in the region say changes to a longstanding federal homelessness support program will make it harder to get and keep people housed, and threaten the stability of thousands of families in pricey Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are not going to get more people off the street by pushing others onto it,” Rep. Sam Liccardo said Monday while standing in front of a new building for formerly homeless and lower-income families in the Little Saigon district. “This strategy by the Trump administration amounts to cutting one end of the fabric and stapling it onto the other and calling it one big, beautiful blanket. It is not going to cover us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo, a Democrat whose district runs from Los Gatos up through parts of the Peninsula, made the comments this week outside The Charles, a new building opening for occupancy this month, just minutes before 23-year-old Kaytana Alvarido and her family were shown their brand-new, two-bedroom apartment for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarido teared up with joy as she and her husband, Alberto Barragan, 28, and their 1-year-old son Lucius walked through the door into the living room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Wow, it’s beautiful. This is your new home, baby,” Alvarido said to the toddler.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065390\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065390\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of The Charles, a 99-unit affordable apartment complex in San José, on Nov. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The family’s apartment is one of 99 at the complex, which is named in honor of the late Dr. Charles Preston, the former Director of Psychology Services for the Valley Homeless Healthcare Program in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the most important thing I’m looking forward to is setting up our son’s room because we never thought that we would even have the space for that,” Alvarido said. “Just having his own space to play and be free is so important and so exciting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and Barragan lived in a shelter for the past year with Lucius, and before that, the couple spent time living on the streets, in their car, and in motels while Alvarido was pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were a lot of times where my husband would go even without eating to make sure that I would eat and that we could pay for a room to not have to sleep outside,” Alvarido said.[aside postID=news_12064324 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240522-ERPressure-09-BL_qed.jpg']The building is located less than a block away from the site of a formerly sprawling homeless encampment infamously dubbed The Jungle, where hundreds of people lived in rough conditions, exemplifying the region’s harsh wealth gaps and intense unaffordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While The Charles was built using a substantial mix of funding from a local homelessness tax measure, state and city grants and credits, officials say the money to support rental subsidies for tenants and building operations is largely paid for by the federal funding that is being redirected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move hangs a cloud of uncertainty around the future of existing housing projects like The Charles, and could prevent other similar projects in the region from opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, headed by Secretary Scott Turner, issued new guidelines earlier this month that will shift the majority of the $3.9 billion program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>funding away from permanent housing and rapid rehousing efforts, toward more temporary or transitional housing and supportive services for substance abuse and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, that could amount to as much as a cumulative $35 million loss annually, amid a potential $100 million hit across the entire Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner, in a statement, called the program a “Biden-era slush fund that fueled the homelessness crisis,” and said the change “restores accountability to homelessness programs and promotes self-sufficiency among vulnerable Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivian Wan, CEO of the nonprofit housing provider Abode Services, speaks about the impacts of changes to a federal housing program’s funding by the Trump administration on Nov. 24, 2025, during a press conference in San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vivian Wan, the CEO of Abode Services, a Fremont-based nonprofit housing provider in the Bay Area, said the federal government’s move away from “housing first” approaches to helping people get off the street isn’t just a policy change, it’s a moral shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in our community deserves a stable place to call home, regardless of how much money they make,” Wan said during a press conference on Monday. “We must continue to invest in permanent housing solutions or people will just get stuck in shelters, transitional housing, interim housing, and many people will stay outside and be pushed outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo sent a letter to federal housing officials on Monday. More than 30 other members of Congress, including Zoe Lofgren and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, signed onto the letter, which challenges the administration’s decision and asks for more information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does not move the ball forward a single inch to be pushing hundreds of thousands of people out of their existing homes and claiming that we’re going to come up with better solutions for homelessness,” Liccardo said. “We need to keep people housed while we are working on these more intractable challenges.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065389\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065389\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-07-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Sam Liccardo speaks during a press conference in San José about changes to a federal housing program’s funding by the Trump administration on Nov. 24, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He also said he plans to talk to his Republican counterparts whose districts are also affected by the changes to “see if we could put together legislation to reverse the administration’s decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The building is located less than a block away from the site of a formerly sprawling homeless encampment infamously dubbed The Jungle, where hundreds of people lived in rough conditions, exemplifying the region’s harsh wealth gaps and intense unaffordability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While The Charles was built using a substantial mix of funding from a local homelessness tax measure, state and city grants and credits, officials say the money to support rental subsidies for tenants and building operations is largely paid for by the federal funding that is being redirected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move hangs a cloud of uncertainty around the future of existing housing projects like The Charles, and could prevent other similar projects in the region from opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, headed by Secretary Scott Turner, issued new guidelines earlier this month that will shift the majority of the $3.9 billion program\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>funding away from permanent housing and rapid rehousing efforts, toward more temporary or transitional housing and supportive services for substance abuse and mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, that could amount to as much as a cumulative $35 million loss annually, amid a potential $100 million hit across the entire Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turner, in a statement, called the program a “Biden-era slush fund that fueled the homelessness crisis,” and said the change “restores accountability to homelessness programs and promotes self-sufficiency among vulnerable Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251124-SJHUDCUTS-JG-06_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vivian Wan, CEO of the nonprofit housing provider Abode Services, speaks about the impacts of changes to a federal housing program’s funding by the Trump administration on Nov. 24, 2025, during a press conference in San José. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vivian Wan, the CEO of Abode Services, a Fremont-based nonprofit housing provider in the Bay Area, said the federal government’s move away from “housing first” approaches to helping people get off the street isn’t just a policy change, it’s a moral shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone in our community deserves a stable place to call home, regardless of how much money they make,” Wan said during a press conference on Monday. “We must continue to invest in permanent housing solutions or people will just get stuck in shelters, transitional housing, interim housing, and many people will stay outside and be pushed outside.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liccardo sent a letter to federal housing officials on Monday. 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In just nine months, an additional 245,000 Bay Area residents fell into poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is one of the fastest regional increases in recent history,” said Sam Cobbs, CEO of Tipping Point, during a media briefing on Tuesday. “That is the size of Boise, Idaho.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For much of the past decade, poverty in the Bay Area had steadily declined. From 2011 to 2021, the region’s rate fell from 18.7% to 10.8%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the expiration of pandemic-era safety net programs (such as the expanded Child Tax Credit and stimulus payments), historic inflation and rising housing costs reversed those gains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report paints a stark picture of a region where the cost of living has vastly outpaced wage growth. Between 2016 and 2023, household incomes in the Bay Area rose by 34%, but the cost of living surged by 46%. In total, more than 1.8 million residents — or nearly 3 in 10 people in the region — are now struggling to cover basic needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11953003\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11953003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66308_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-22-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A pair of hands in knit gloves holds the handle of a shopping stroller while a pair of hands in clear plastic gloves places produce into the stroller.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66308_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-22-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66308_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-22-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66308_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-22-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66308_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-22-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66308_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-22-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66308_230613-SFMarinFoodPantry-22-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volunteers distribute food items at a San Francisco-Marin Food Bank pop-up pantry in the Richmond District of San Francisco on June 13, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One of the report’s most critical findings challenges the assumption that full-time employment guarantees economic security, Cobbs said. Half of all Bay Area residents living in poverty belong to families with at least one full-time, year-round worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Working full time is no longer the remedy for poverty in the Bay Area,” Cobbs said. “Over 1 million residents in or near poverty live in families where there’s at least one full-time working adult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While poverty increased across nearly every county and across all demographics, the Bay’s Black and Asian communities were hit hardest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco County, which also saw the largest increases, now holds the highest poverty rate in the region at 17.5%, followed closely by Alameda County. Only Marin County’s poverty rate — at 14.4% — remained unchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report noted that while safety net programs kept more than 176,000 people out of poverty in 2023, their impact is diminishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12064324 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/240522-ERPressure-09-BL_qed.jpg']Ali Sutton, Tipping Point’s chief program officer, warned that the situation could deteriorate further depending on federal policy changes after the passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, formally known as HR 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are expecting some of the deepest cuts to our social safety net in our history,” Sutton said. “Given those substantial cuts, we anticipate these numbers will only worsen over the next few years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the current crisis, Tipping Point pledged in \u003ca href=\"https://tippingpoint.org/press/bay-area-poverty-fundraising/tipping-point-to-accelerate-bay-area-giving-to-1-billion-following-seismic-cuts-to-direct-assistance/#:~:text=SAN%20FRANCISCO%2C%20July%207%2C%202025,and%20grants%20by%20%24185%20million.\">July\u003c/a> to double its investment in the community, committing $1 billion over the next 10 years. Cobbs said the organization, which was founded by Daniel Lurie in 2005, decades before he became San Francisco’s mayor, \u003ca href=\"https://tippingpoint.org/bay-area-impact/impact-reports/impact-report-2024/#policy-change\">plans to focus on systemic changes\u003c/a> rather than just direct services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The data makes clear that progress is possible, but only if we continue to invest in what works,” Cobbs said. “When strong policies and proven programs are in place, like access to affordable childcare, career pathways and safety net benefits, poverty declines. When those supports are rolled back, poverty rises.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group specifically called for reforms focused on stabilizing the cost of living and broadest access to benefits. 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