San Francisco Bay Area Renters Federation

05/22/2020

Interesting

Many homeownership trends have remained largely the same since 1960—with a few noteworthy shifts.

05/15/2020

Support Jane Natoli for Board of MUNI (aka the MTA). https://sfhac.secure.nonprofitsoapbox.com/janenatolisfmta Jane is on the board of YIMBY Action and SF Bike Coalition. She is a friend to housing and an enemy of cars :D

Naturally, SF Progs are threatening to give her a hard time.

After removing the SFMTA Board's foremost disability advocate, the Bay Area Housing Advocacy Coalition is concerned the San Francisco Board of Supervisors won't support Jane Natoli’s nomination for similar reasons. In times like these, San Franciscans can’t afford city supervisors playing petty ...

05/07/2020

The 315 apartments in Lafayette are FINALLY going to be heard at the Planning Commission, 7pm May 18th. More info is in the calendar event linked below.

Submit comments by emailing [email protected] reference agenda item 6a

With Google's free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place.

05/05/2020

Hello Housing Element Inspectors:

Grover Beach (SLO County) city council is going to hear an update on their housing element process TONIGHT.

The meeting starts at 6pm, but it is item 6.

Listen in/ watch: www.slo-span.org or (805) 321-6639

http://groverbeach.org/DocumentCenter/View/9824/Item6_Housing-Update-Staff-Report-CC-050420_Redacted

04/27/2020

Now is a good time to look at this webapp made by the MTC (Metropolitan Transportation Commission) https://rhna-factors.mtcanalytics.org/
ABAG/ MTC is going to decide soon on the methodology for the RHNA.

This on-line tool has been developed as a way for the Housing Methodology Committee to explore the impact and geography of the various factors discussed during previous meetings, and to help refine the list of factors and their relative importance. The tool distributes a hypothetical Regional Housin...

04/03/2020

Get ready for RHNA https://www.yimbylaw.org/he-rhna

03/06/2020

April 17th the Cato Instute is hosting a one day conference about housing. For the event, they got the band back together:

3:00 – 3:30PM California Crisis: A Discussion
Steve Falk, Interim City Administrator, City of Oakland
Sonja Trauss, YIMBY Law

Come through, it's free!

Crisis: Housing and Homelessness in California Conference April 17, 2020 9:00 AM to 3:45 PM PDT Grand Hyatt San Francisco, 345 Stockton St, San Francisco, CA Register Any effort to address poverty and inequality in California must start with the lack of affordable housing. o The median home price i...

02/05/2020

Hello lovers of housing. Here is a petition for you: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/approve-the-irv-affordable-workforce-housing-project-at-4326-irving-st?source=direct_link&

The developer is proposing to add one more floor to this building, which will make existing the 1 bedroom apartments on the top floor into THREE bedroom apartments! And rent controlled.

It's totally zoning compliant, the planning department doesn't like the proposal because the individual planner assigned to the project doesn't think the common area in the proposed new 3 bedroom apartments is big enough. :eyeroll:

It's not like there is a shortage going on or anything.

Pls support MOAR housing. Sign, share.

We would like your support for our neighborhood "IRV" project, renovating a vacant building to provide new, high quality rent-controlled housing for locals. We are going before the planning commission to get approval to renovate this existing, vacant, rent-controlled building to add more bedrooms an...

02/05/2020

There is way more on the ballot right now than just the presidential primaries. Come meet electeds and candidates that are on the ballot RIGHT NOW!

It's 2020. A big year for all of us. Regardless of what shade of blue you are, this March's primary ballot has some key national AND local Democratic races to consider. So, join me for my second ballot party "LIVE" happening Sunday 2/23 from 3-5PM location TBA. The first time around, we had nearly 1...