Thanks to Scott Wiener's SB 828, the Bay Area's housing allocation requirements have been more than doubled this cycle. Cities need to upzone soon. And thanks to Wiener's SB 35, any city that fails to build enough homes will have new homes streamlined and mandatory approved. 👍🏿
Eric Panzer @ericpanzer
17 Jun 2020
Word on the street is the Bay Area's new Regional Housing Needs Determination is 441,176 units, which is 2.35 times higher than the 2015–23 RHND of 187,990. Thank you, @Scott_Wiener, for authoring #SB828, which made State housing need calculation methods more logical and fair.
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Is this housing allocation enough to keep up with population growth? No. But still a huge game changer from when we entered the 2010s with pathetically low housing allocation and population growth resulting in a mass displacement crisis and environmental destruction via sprawl
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Many exclusionary cities in the Bay Area will soon be required to build a lot more low income housing than just none.
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A lot of folks acted like SB 50 was the end all; be all but much of the pro housing laws that created this massive shift had already been passed. SB 50 wouldve placed the housing near transit and middle-high income neighborhoods. The only difference now is its on cities to do it
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Pay close attention to where cities choose to allow more housing in the upcoming housing element. It will be a big battle to ensure they do it equitably (no redlining) and environmentally (i.e. transit oriented). Recall how San Francisco did it last time
Darrell Owens @IDoTheThinking
4 Dec 2019
When San Francisco's political groups and Board of Supervisors says that Senate Bill 50 targets low-income neighborhoods, check this out: Left: A map of SF's racial redlining (1930) Right: Where SF, through local control, chooses to place new development at (2018) Wow [1/3]
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Big cities in the Bay Area will fulfill their market housing goals as they normally do. But low income housing thresholds being much higher means low income housing wont face good legal opposition, especially in the Bay Area's exclusionary communities (i.e. half of the Bay)
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Replying to @IDoTheThinking
I think cities' incentive from SB 828 may be: don't worry about low income housing targets, classify everything that's market-rate as above-moderate even if it's affordable to moderate incomes, and try to hit the above-moderate target to avoid streamlining of 10% affordable.

Jun 18, 2020 · 1:50 AM UTC
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