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San Francisco mayor proposes denser housing to tackle affordability crisis
The plan aims to create 36,000 additional homes by 2031, including duplexes and taller buildings, to ease San Francisco's housing crisis and curb rising rents.
- Earlier this month in San Francisco, Mayor Daniel Lurie proposed the Family Zoning Plan to allow denser and taller homes citywide; supervisors could vote it out of committee on Monday.
- The city faces an affordability crisis that has left many priced out, with high labor and construction costs plus cumbersome approval processes stalling new housing projects.
- Data show the plan ties housing targets to affordability by requiring at least 15% of new housing be below-market rate and exempts buildings with at least three rent-controlled units, while neighborhood commercial corridors could double to eight stories.
- Supervisors face immediate political pressure as protesters demand 100% below-market housing and accuse the mayor of being a gentrifier and a Republican, while compromise eased concerns for Richmond resident Phyllis Nabhan, 78.
- Despite recent condo growth downtown, state-level pressure from Gov. Gavin Newsom and State Sen. Scott Wiener drives change as stalled projects grew unprofitable and 830,000 residents debate density trade-offs.
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San Francisco mayor proposes denser housing to tackle affordability crisis
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie is pushing to build more homes to address the city's housing crisis. He proposes allowing denser and taller buildings in many areas.
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