Re:Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets
by sagarm on Sunday November 27, 2016 @05:41AM
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Hillary Ronen, Campos's former chief of staff, could turn out to be pro housing. She included building 5,000 units of "affordable" (BMR) housing in her platform: http://hillaryronen.com/hillarys-plan/
There's nowhere near enough public funds to subsidize that much BMR housing, so in theory she would have to support mixed developments. In practice it might just be lip service.
Re:Rents are plunging in the most expensive U.S. markets
by kevinburke on Sunday November 27, 2016 @10:35AM
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Affordable housing is great but gets more expensive as market rate rent increases, and won't meet the demand for housing. I'm much more concerned about the market rate housing stock.
Marjan Philhour, a pro-housing candidate in District 1, lost by 1000 votes. If she won, pro-housing SF Supervisors would have had a 6-5 majority on the board. We were 1000 votes away from a much better housing situation in SF.
If you live in SF, the way we change this is by electing better Supervisors and kicking off the NIMBY's. Sandra Lee Fewer (the "progressive" candidate who wants zero new housing) had volunteers on every Geary street corner the day of the election. Get involved in your local races, donate money, volunteer to call people. Also, call/write your Supervisor when they try to pull crap like this: http://missionlocal.org/2016/11/in-stunner-city-strikes-down...