1. Wed 07/06 6pm: SF YIMBY Membership Meeting at Manny's, 3092 16th Street
   
2. Wed 07/06 and Wed 07/13 11am: Give comment to kill the anti-housing measure, by phone or in person at City Hall
3. July is membership month! Please become a member and support our pro-housing work!
4. What we're reading and sharing:
   1. SF Chronicle Editorial Board blasts the Board of Supervisors for going backwards on housing with their faux fourplex bill
   2. SF Standard: Young adults left SF during COVID because of high housing costs

Membership Meeting: Wed Jul 6

Join us at our membership meeting to socialize with pro-housing supporters, learn about social housing and get updates on our YIMBY ballot measure! Hans How, member of the city's Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board, will present the board's recommendations on implementing social housing in San Francisco. We will hear an update on the upcoming November election, the YIMBY ballot measure and how to get involved in the endorsement process.

Wednesday, July 6

6:00pm-8:00pm

Manny's

3092 16th Street

San Francisco, CA 94103

Thank you to Manny's for hosting us! Join their newsletter for more exciting civic events.

Speak up for Housing at City Hall

On Wednesday July 6 (and again on July 13), SF Supervisors Chan, Peskin, Preston, and Walton will attempt to place an Anti-Housing Charter Amendment onto the ballot. If they succeed, it will undermine the Pro-Housing Affordable Homes Now measure backed by Mayor Breed, Supervisor Dorsey, Senator Scott Wiener, Habitat for Humanity, Nor Cal Carpenters, Housing Action Coalition, SPUR, Greenbelt Alliance, YIMBY Action, GrowSF, and tens of thousands of SF voters.

Sadly, but not surprisingly, this is a cynical and deceptive move by anti-housing Supervisors who have consistently voted to block critically-needed housing for residents of all income levels. They know that their measure will result in few homes getting built. This San Francisco Chronicle piece spells all that out.

We can put a stop to this by showing up and speaking out on July 6 and July 13 - urging Supervisors to vote NO on this Anti-Housing Charter Amendment.

If you RSVP, we'll email you instructions on when and how to give public comment, in person or on the phone. Thank you for supporting housing!

Membership Month: Join Our Fight for Housing

July is membership month at YIMBY Action! If you are a paying member, we thank you for your financial support. If you are not yet a paying member, please consider membership to promote the cause of abundant and affordable housing in San Francisco. Paid memberships and donations enable us at SF YIMBY to host events, lobby for better policy, organize on social media, and pay our amazing staff. Get a free shirt if you become a member this month!

What we've been reading

Supervisors Pass Faux Fourplex Bill

The Board of Supervisors passed a faux fourplex bill that undermines state law and makes it harder, not easier, to build fourplexes on city land. The Frisc quoted YIMBY Annie Fryman:

Annie Fryman — who as state Sen. Scott Wiener’s top housing advisor from 2016 to 2020 wrote several housing bills, including the updated state mandates — called the new city bill “actively harmful.” Under SB 9, “you have a clear path of building a fourplex,” Fryman said, but the new law “replaces a clear way with an impossible way and pretends it’s a victory for housing."

The San Francisco Chronicle Editorial Board blasted the Board of Supervisors:

[...]the supervisors’ housing bill will do nothing to spur denser development in exclusionary neighborhoods.

And they know it.

A planning department feasibility study shows that developers trying to navigate the bill’s restrictions will lose money by the handfuls should they try to build denser housing on a formerly single-family plot.

Cue the chorus of boo-hoos. But guess what happens when developers are guaranteed to lose money? They don’t build anything.

Unfortunately, this Board of Supervisors continues to go backwards on housing with their faux-housing ballot measure. Housing is popular, and that's why we are are taking the Affordable Homes Now ballot measure to the voters in November.

High housing costs drove young adults away during COVID

The SF Standard finds that over two-thirds of the 58,000 people who left the city between 2020 and 2021 were young adults aged 20-34, despite being only 28% of SF's population. A major driver of the exodus was the high cost of housing. SF YIMBY believes San Francisco must build more housing to keep young people in the city and grow the next generation.