Parkmerced Is A Giant Housing Fail. Can SF Avoid the Next One?

Parkmerced Is A Giant Housing Fail. Can SF Avoid the Next One?

In 2011, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors approved one of the city’s most ambitious housing plans, an overhaul of the 1940s-era Parkmerced, a small neighborhood next to San Francisco State University. The redevelopment was supposed to yield about 5,700 new homes and replace 1,500 more from Parkmerced’s aging stock, a remarkable bounty given how the city’s west side had for decades resisted new development. Fourteen years later – nothing. In …