Public Housing in San Francisco: RAD, HOPE SF, and the Challenges of Redevelopment (Berkeley)

University of California Berkeley Wurster Hall (Rm. 112 First Floor auditorium) Berkeley, CA

Join ELPN for this marquee speaker series event, including lecture, Q&A, and reception: San Francisco is pursuing various means to improve its aging public housing stock. In this talk, UC-Berkeley professor Carolina Reid will give an overview of these different strategies and describe the successes and challenges in each. Register here!

Free

Small Sites, Big Impact (San Francisco)

SPUR Urban Center 654 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

In the face of rising rents, increased evictions and property sales, San Francisco launched its Small Sites Program in July 2014 to fund the acquisition and rehabilitation of 5- to 25-unit rental buildings. Participating partners are able to remove these small sites from the market, make important capital repairs and then restrict them for long-term affordability. To date, the program has assisted 78 units in 13 buildings, with more to come in 2017. Learn about how the program is working,…

Free – $10

Legislative Issues Committee Meeting

NPH Conference Room 369 Pine Street, Suite 310,, San Francisco, CA, United States

Join NPH for our first Legislative Issues Committee meeting of the year! This group meets the first Thursday of each month, typically from 9:30 – 11:30 am. At times, the committee meets for a longer period of time to accommodate longer agenda items, such as reviewing bills and establishing legislative priorities. Register here. 

SPUR: Zoning at 100: A Look Back

SPUR Urban Center 654 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA

Zoning is the basic regulatory tool for city planning and since its birth with the 1916 New York City Zoning Resolution, it has spent the last century constantly evolving. The tool has been pressed into the service of urban ambitions ranging from the mundane to the grand, and even sometimes the nefarious. Join a panel of scholars and practitioners for a retrospective on the first 100 years of zoning. More information here.  

Free – $10