San Francisco’s nationally recognized SPUR organization has some innovative solutions on how to make pricey San Francisco affordable again. These ideas (some tried & true and some out of the box) have the power to make the city even more of a success story!
- Protect the existing rent controlled housing stock.
- Reinvest in public housing.
- Double the amount of subsidized affordable housing.
- Make it much easier to add supply at all levels.
- Launch a wave of experiments to produce middle-income housing.
- Use new property taxes from growing neighborhoods to fund improvements to those Neighborhoods
- Reinvest in the transportation system, as a way to provide viable transit options and reduce household transportation costs
- Raise the minimum wage
Read SPUR’s full report here about their recommendations for improvement.