By Tim Redmond : 48hills – excerpt
Hearing shows huge disconnect between lofty goals and the ability of the city to implement them.
The outcome was pretty much determined in advance. The San Francisco Housing Element is, as Fred Sherburn Zimmer, director of the Housing Rights Committee put it, “state blackmail, and you all know this.”
So the Land Use and Transportation Committee sent this plan to the full Board of Supes, where it will be approved Tuesday/24.
But in the process, we learned that the Planning Department, which had to develop the Housing Element and its ambitious affordable housing goals, and the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, which would implement those goals, are on very different tracks…(more)