{"id":398433,"date":"2026-07-14T21:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T21:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T21:45:08","slug":"fall-ballot-measures-aim-to-build-more-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398433\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall ballot measures aim to build more affordable housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco needs $17.9 billion to build enough affordable housing to accommodate population growth by 2031, per a recent report. The city has struggled to hit its goals due to a shortage of government funds and high construction costs.<\/p>\n<p>Local officials say those targets just aren\u2019t realistic. But experts point out there are a variety of solutions that could spur production, several of which will appear on this November\u2019s ballot. Some suggestions include doubling the allocation to the Housing Trust Fund, setting aside money from a real estate transfer tax for social housing, and creating a municipal bank that can issue loans to affordable housing developers.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfpublicpress.org\/fall-ballot-measures-aim-to-build-more-affordable-housing-that-san-francisco-desperately-needs\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The San Francisco Public Press here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco needs $17.9 billion to build enough affordable housing to accommodate population growth by 2031, per a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-398433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}