Good Policy | Affordable Housing For All

After a decade of state and local housing deregulation bills targetting zoning and streamlining, the promises of "abundant housing" have fallen flat, while the affordability crisis has only worsened in San Francisco. In PROPEL's latest "Good Policy" explainer, we cover the reasons why affordable housing isn't getting built,and the tools that municipal government can and should be using to deliver on a San Francisco that the majority of us can afford to live in. 

In Part 1 of our 5 part series: 

Hear from market-rate and low-income affordable housing developers about the real barriers to housing production: it's not zoning, it's financing. At last calculation, the Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) estimated it would take $19 billion in public investment to meet the State's mandate for 46,000 new affordable housing units within the next five years, but the City has yet to identify how or where it will get that money. If you're interested in understanding the mechanics of affordable housing development, this short video is for you.