San Francisco

August 20, 2015

CCHO’s District Housing Snapshots 2014

If you’re looking for more information on San Francisco’s Housing Balance, please review the data, charts and narrative provided by our partners at the Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO) in their District Housing Snapshots 2014. In anticipation of the release of SF Planning’s Housing Balance Report, CCHO put together the Snapshots of each of the 11 supervisorial districts in the City, in an effort to show readers where affordable housing is being produced and lost in neighborhoods across the…
March 2, 2016

Mayors’ breakfast focuses on housing issues

The topic was a regional economic forecast, but affordable homes dominated the conversation as 800 business leaders met at the Business Times Mayors’ Breakfast with Ed Lee (San Francisco) and Libby Schaaf (Oakland) February 9.   Citing their regular collaboration with Mayor Sam Liccardo (San José), regional agencies and the non-profit sector, both mayors framed their comments around housing affordability. Mayor Lee spoke about achieving 30,000 new units with a commitment to significant affordability. When challenged by protestors, he pointed…
April 25, 2016

Amie Fishman in CS Monitor: Us Housing Crunch

NPH Executive Director Amie Fishman was quoted, along with our subregional partner Peter Cohen from the Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO), in the Christian Science Monitor discussing the devastating effects caused by the lack of affordability in the Bay Area.   “All of it – the uncertainty and stress of where to live, of how to make ends meet, pay utilities, put food on the table – these are devastating choices people have to make,” says Amie Fishman, executive director of the…
November 1, 2016

MOHCD on Where $310m Housing Bond Funds are Being Used

The San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development released an update of where Prop A funds are being used, which includes much-needed affordable homes in development by NPH members BRIDGE Housing, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, Christian Church Homes, and Mission Economic Development Agency.
November 1, 2016

Development Without Displacement

Join SPUR November 15th for a discussion around preserving the Tenderloin community of San Francisco in midst of growing interests from market-rate housing developers, high-end restaurants and short-term vacation rentals.   More Info
January 20, 2022

San Francisco Public Press: How Build Back Better Bill’s Failure Could Hurt SF’s Most Vulnerable

San Francisco could lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars for rental aid and affordable housing construction with the expected collapse of the Build Back Better social spending and infrastructure bill. The White House touted the $1.75 trillion spending package as having the “single largest and most comprehensive investment in affordable housing in history,” with $150 billion in housing assistance for low-income tenants. Sen. Joe Manchin, the West Virginia Democrat, derailed the bill by refusing to provide the key…