Just one more example demonstrating that the "market" and #MayorLurie's "Family Zoning Plan" will not solve even a small part of the affordable housing problem.
But it might make more mansions available.
SFMTA approves slashing 365 units from Mission housing project
https://missionlocal.org/2026/03/potrero-yard-downsized-sfmta-vote/
San Francisco's leaders say we need to act on #climate. So why does #MayorLurie propose gutting San Francisco Environment's climate team? Please tell the SF Supervisors not to do foolhardy cost-cutting - the climate work is URGENT. Here's an explainer and draft letter to send:
good points.
Given the solid endorsement of #VisionZero by #MayorLurie and SF departments, I'd expect that all city employees would be able to (and expected to) flag these sorts of problems so appropriate actions could be taken.
#SantaClara #SuperBowl #BayArea Host Committee organizers plan major #CountryMusic #charity concert Saturday eve before season ending #football championship game featuring top headlining act #ChrisStapleton at 5000 capacity #BillGraham Civic in #SanFrancisco that will benefit #MayorLurie founded #TippingPoint #SF an anti #poverty org
https://www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/article/super-bowl-organizers-san-francisco-concert-21110064.php
#MayorLurie - Do you realize you're building #distrust when you support this sort of decision making? This is not good governance.
It may be that the selection criteria staff came up with were incorrect. In that case, revising the decision criteria, clearly identifying what needed to be revised, and why, makes sense. Overruling the criteria that were approved for use? Nope. Or did your senior staff person fail to review the criteria to begin with? Equally Nope
Overruling a recommendation based on the official selection criteria just because one person (or was it 2?) disagrees with the result is #BadGovernance and #BreaksTrust with the people.
I'm spending a lot of time looking at #SanFrancisco's proposed #FamilyZoningPlan. Perhaps that's why reading about Pope Leo XIV's just released Dilexi Te (https://apnews.com/article/vatican-poor-pope-leo-francis-wealth-elite-fb63ece4f0c302c7a321a09da52374ac) brought it to mind.
We have a massive affordable housing problem, with housing unaffordable to most people (based on rent burdens) - and he wrote "“Thus, in a world where the poor are increasingly numerous, we paradoxically see the growth of a wealthy elite, living in a bubble of comfort and luxury, almost in another world compared to ordinary people.”
And I see a zoning plan that allows (incentivizes?) 90' buildings with 4000 sq ft residential units, all less than 9 units so no inclusionary requirement - and hear planning staff talk about how it will help affordability through the inclusionary requirements. Disingenuous is an understatement, but the Planning does answer to #MayorLurie.
Whose brother, a real estate agent for the wealthy, bemoaned a lack of mansions for his clients, living in that bubble.
Pope Leo XIV has criticized how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. Leo confirmed on Thursday that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice. The Vatican released the document, entitled “I have loved you,” which Francis had begun to write in his final months but never finished. Leo credited Francis with the text, cited him repeatedly, but said he had made the document his own. The conclusion Leo draws is that the Catholic Church’s “preferential option for the poor” has existed from the start, is non-negotiable and is in fact the very essence of what it means to be Christian.
If #MayorLurie could only explain how this plan would provide housing affordable to the full mix of household incomes, without trotting out the hypothetical (and misleading) explanations of #filtering and related misleading #SupplyAndDemand, that would be nice. The history of housing construction in dense urban environments puts the lie to those justifications. And we already build more housing than forecast demand for the top 10% of incomes in SF (which are high, shall we say).
I remember SF Planning touting the #VancouverModel 15 years ago. How did that turn out for Vanouver? Well, not much affordable housing: https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/vancouver-housing-impossibly-unaffordable-report
So why is the Mayor doubling down on policies that fail in dense urban areas?
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