Moratorium on Pandemic Related Evictions Extended Again
As we outlined in June: The temporary moratorium on the eviction of tenants in San Francisco for the non-payment of rent from April through July, if formally documented as being…
Industry Group Appeals Tenant Protection Ordinance Ruling
Having been denied by a San Francisco Superior Court Judge last week, the San Francisco Apartment Association, San Francisco Association of Realtors, Coalition for Better Housing, and Small Property Owners…
Legislation to Restrict Demolition of Unaffordable Homes in SF
Intended as a means by which to preserve “relatively affordable, existing housing” in San Francisco, Section 317 of San Francisco’s Planning Code was adopted back in 2008 and requires the…
Amended Central SoMa Plan Could be Adopted This Month
With over 100 proposed amendments having been made to the City’s ambitious Central SoMa Plan, including an allocation of up to $160 million to enhance and expand local transit, San…
Waylaid NoPa Development Slated for Approval, Again
While waylaid by efforts to increase the percentage of below market rate (BMR) units the proposed six-story building to rise on the old Alouis Radiator shop turned Seismic Retrofitters parcel…
City Bracing for Lawsuit over Adoption of Its Central Soma Plan
While San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors have upheld Planning’s certification of the City’s framework to mitigate the projected environmental impacts of its ambitious Central SoMa Plan, it has yet to…
San Francisco Officially Endorses Expansion of Rent Control
As we first reported earlier this year: If adopted by voters in November, California Proposition 10 would overturn the state’s Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act which prevents rent control from applying…
Governor Signs Bill to Expedite Oakland A’s Ballpark Development
While the Oakland A’s have yet to ink a deal for building a new Major League Baseball stadium at Howard Terminal, a 50-acre waterfront site to the west of Jack…
SF’s Ambitious Central SoMa Plan Could be Adopted Next Month
With San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors having upheld the certification of the City’s plan to mitigate the projected environmental impacts of its ambitious Central SoMa Plan, rejecting a handful of…
Potential Adoption of Ambitious Central SoMa Plan Pushed Back
With San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors having just voted to continue their hearing of a California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) based appeal of the City’s plan to mitigate the projected…