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From the Affordable Homes Now website:
What is the Affordable Homes Now Initiative?
A new ballot measure that will make it faster and easier to build new homes in San Francisco that are affordable to low and middle income San Franciscans, public school teachers, and others who work in public schools or at community colleges.
Why is Affordable Homes Now necessary?
Because San Francisco has a severe shortage of affordable housing, and that’s in large part because it takes too long for the City to approve permits for new homes. (By “too long” we mean four to seven years!) Those delays then drive up the overall cost of housing and SF becomes even more unaffordable.
How does Affordable Homes Now solve this problem?
By streamlining the permitting and approval process so that it becomes faster and easier to build affordable and middle-income housing for our lower and middle income workers such as teachers, nurses, firefighters, small business owners, nonprofit workers, and others.
Will the Affordable Homes Now measure have labor standards for the construction workers building the new housing?
Yes. This ballot measure requires that builders pay construction workers family-supporting prevailing wages and cover the workers’ family health care costs. It also requires contractors to create opportunities for apprentices who are starting out their careers in the construction trades.
Affordable Homes Now in the press
"S.F.’s newest housing measure is NIMBYism masquerading as progress" - SF Chronicle
"Mayor Breed-backed affordable housing measure to appear on November ballot - The Business Journals
"Mayor Breed-backed S.F. affordable housing measure expected to qualify for the ballot, sparking fight with progressives" - SF Chronicle
Affordable Homes Now kick off rally - YouTube
"Advocates kick off campaign for S.F. affordable housing ballot measure" - SF Chronicle
"Blocked by Supes, housing charter amendment sets sight on voters" - Mission Local
"After being rejected by S.F. supervisors, a charter to streamline housing could go to the voters" - SF Chronicle