scott f

Good primer on how California housing development laws have changed in the past few years, for better or worse, but also how those changes are unlikely to usher in broad affordability.

"*This* project is all but certainly going to get financing because *this* project is exceptional. But not every project is exceptional... If merely approving a project resulted in its construction, San Francisco would have scores of thousands of additional built units. It doesn’t."
https://missionlocal.org/2026/04/marina-safeway-boycott/ #sfpol

25-story Marina Safeway behemoth, inconceivable even to sci-fi futurists, looking very real

D2 supe and mayor can shake their fists at the proposed high-rise — but little more. Neither joined last week's call for a Safeway boycott. 

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Apr 6 at 10:10pmWeb
Show threadscott f1d ago
Now that zoning and permitting are definitively not the barrier to our housing needs, we need to refocus on what IS missing: public investment in housing as infrastructure, and broader rent regulations to limit skyrocketing landlord profits.