PHOENIX: Following two years of study and public backlash, a proposal to allow 100 percent affordable housing projects to rise three extra stories was approved by San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. The policy could yield 203 additional affordable units among seven active new projects in the near term.
But the fate of a separate, controversial density bonus program for market-rate projects remains unresolved, and the political maneuvering surrounding the proposal underscored the difficulty of shifting the city’s housing policy, even when changes directly result in more affordable units. The proposal passed only after weeks of modifications, highlighting a Board and city that appear increasingly polarized between its progressive and moderate factions as a pivotal November election looms…..