Join us next week for a presentation and discussion with Supervisor Myrna Melgar on upcoming legislation to streamline converting single-family homes into fourplexes! Learn about how to join other organizations to maximize the political power of housing! Now that San Francisco has adopted the housing element (a set of promises on how to build 82,000 homes by 2031), how do we hold SF accountable? Come to socialize and meet fellow pro-housing people!?

Wednesday, February 9

6-8p (Please note, Supervisor Melgar will be joining us a little earlier, so we will start programming at 6:30 PM)

2505 Mariposa Street

San Francisco, CA 94110

San Francisco has a compliant housing element!

This is important so I wanted to share it again. As you may have seen in the press in all our local papers, San Francisco has a compliant housing element that the California Department of Housing & Community Development has signed off on. That means that the city has a plan for the next 8 years, but the work doesn't stop there. Huge thanks to our volunteer Housing Element Watchdogs who have led the way so far, and stay tuned for more to come on how you can get involved in the efforts to make sure we stay compliant.

But what about the rest of the Bay Area?

While San Francisco has a compliant housing element, many jurisdictions in the Bay Area do not. What does that mean? YIMBY Law executive director Sonja Trauss, Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo County Policy Manager Jeremy Levine, and Greenbelt Alliance Resilience Manager Jordan Grimes teamed up to talk about the Builder's Remedy and how many local jurisdictions are still trying to skirt state laws and avoid building much-needed homes. Read their op-ed here.

Steph loves to shoot from way downtown but he doesn't want to live there

Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry caught opposing condos? Steph Curry and his wife, Ayesha Curry, asked the city of Atherton not to zone a neighboring parcel for four stories of multifamily housing.? The Almanac broke the story.

Read more:

https://slate.com/business/2023/02/steph-curry-ayesha-atherton-california-housing-low-income-opposed.html?

Liz Miller, a lead with local chapter Northern Neighbors, hosted their first "Cause And Effect Book Club" yesterday at Cafe Reveille on Polk and Broadway. Stay tuned for more details on the next one. And if you live in or near Districts 2 (The Marina, Cow Hollow, Pacific Heights, Russian Hill), check them out and stay up to date with fun neighborhood events and opportunities. Props to them on a successful first book club!