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HACK THE HOUSING CRISIS:
NO FALSE SOLUTIONS
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How we used to
“hack the housing crisis”
when I started in this work…
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Based on local job growth, over the last seven years, we have already built or entitled
212% of the need for “market-rate” housing,
28% of need for moderate-income units, and
58% of need for low-income units…
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IDEOLOGY / WORLD-VIEW: “An ideology is a conceptual framework to deal with reality… I found a flaw in the model that defines how the world works…”
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The San Francisco we love…
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Supply-and-demand doesn’t work
1. Supply is REGIONAL
2. Supply is CONSTRAINED by land
3. Demand is set by INCOME INEQUALITY
4. MONOPOLY situation means investors can control supply to keep prices artificially high
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Supply-and-demand doesn’t work1. Supply of affordable housing is provided
regionally, in the urban periphery, with externalized environmental and social costs
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Supply-and-demand doesn’t work2. Supply is limited by SF’s physical constraints –
limited land, construction costs for tall buildings, and environmental costs
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Supply-and-demand doesn’t work3. Demand is determined by SF’s extreme income
inequality and desirability for global cash investment
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Supply-and-demand doesn’t work4. There does not exist a competitive market –
supply is determined by external investment, which keeps prices artificially high
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Micro-units:Now developer says of his original quote of “affordable by design” rents: “Those sound like pre-war prices;”
A few blocks away, a 278 s.f. unit rents for $2,195/mo.
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Link social innovation and creative design solutions to a housing infrastructure:
1.Housing Balance
2.Ownership
3.Land
4.Financing
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Do. Or do not. There is no “try.”
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
First, a balanced housing infrastructure:
1. Require AT MINIMUM 30% of all housing be affordable to median income folks and below
2. This goal is achievable, and has been done in the past
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Second, take existing housing out of the speculative market:
1. Create an acquisition fund to secure buildings as permanently affordable units under the control of tenants
2. Require that tenant associations be offered a right of first refusal to buy at fair market value, with time to organize and secure financing, when a building is put for sale
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Third, secure land:
1. Reserve surplus public sites (including MTA, PUC, SFUSD, CalTrans, etc.) for affordable housing: 100% affordable for ¼ to 1 acre sites
2. Minimum 40% affordable for larger master planned areas (achievable by combination 80/20 and affordable set-aside parcels)
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Third, secure land:
3. Use zoning incentives (density bonuses, “affordable by design” code changes, and other profit incentives) to make private land more competitive for 20% and higher inclusionary
4. Zone up (or down) for less expensive wood-frame construction: 65’ heights, zero-parking, modest 15,000-20,000 s.f. sites
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
Fourth, funding:
1. Raise new revenue for land-acquisition, environmental remediation, and development
2. Assemble private capital or pension fund investments into a patient capital fund to acquire buildings and sites
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
1.Housing Balance
2.Ownership
3.Land
4.Financing
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HACK THE HOUSING CRISIS:
NO FALSE SOLUTIONS