San Francisco Housing Affordability Strategies
San Francisco Housing Affordability Strategies

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Published: 2020

Total Pages: 77

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"The Housing Affordability Strategies (HAS) analyze how the city of San Francisco can improve housing affordability over the next 30 years, particularly for low- and moderate-income households. The HAS analyzed development feasibility, City policies, and public investments needed to achieve the City's housing targets created through both Mayoral action and the will of the voters: build 5,000 new housing units per year, at least one third of which should be permanently affordable at low and moderate incomes. In addition, the HAS analyzed programs to preserve affordable housing and to protect and stabilize residents"--Page 1.

The Affordable City
The Affordable City

Author: Shane Phillips

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2020-09-15

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1642831336

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From Los Angeles to Boston and Chicago to Miami, US cities are struggling to address the twin crises of high housing costs and household instability. Debates over the appropriate course of action have been defined by two poles: building more housing or enacting stronger tenant protections. These options are often treated as mutually exclusive, with support for one implying opposition to the other. Shane Phillips believes that effectively tackling the housing crisis requires that cities support both tenant protections and housing abundance. He offers readers more than 50 policy recommendations, beginning with a set of principles and general recommendations that should apply to all housing policy. The remaining recommendations are organized by what he calls the Three S’s of Supply, Stability, and Subsidy. Phillips makes a moral and economic case for why each is essential and recommendations for making them work together. There is no single solution to the housing crisis—it will require a comprehensive approach backed by strong, diverse coalitions. The Affordable City is an essential tool for professionals and advocates working to improve affordability and increase community resilience through local action.