{"id":410124,"date":"2026-07-24T00:31:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410124\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T00:31:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T00:31:36","slug":"sf-leaders-working-on-multiple-fronts-to-create-housing-residents-can-afford-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/410124\/","title":{"rendered":"SF leaders working on multiple fronts to create housing residents can afford \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco on Thursday took another step toward revamping its strategy to build more affordable housing in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The plan now involves letting private developers focus primarily on market-rate housing, while the city invests more money in building affordable units.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The two pieces of legislation are, one, lowering the fees that the city charges to developers of housing, market-rate housing, to incentivize them to pull permits and start building now,&#8221; Supervisor Myrna Melgar said. &#8220;And for the affordable housing developers, we are telling them there is going to be a whole bunch of new money coming your way so that you can start building affordable units again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The city is seeing home prices surge as artificial intelligence drives up incomes, creating an even bigger shortage of high-end housing as well as affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is the entire spectrum of housing that is suffering,&#8221; Melgar said. &#8220;For working class people, we are committed to producing affordable housing and also to protect our rent-controlled housing stock.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Francisco on Thursday took another step toward revamping its strategy to build more affordable housing in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[14500,101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-410124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-making-it-in-the-bay","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\/410124","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=410124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}