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Abundant Housing in San Francisco

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1.1.6
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Support the Bay Area Housing Financing Authority’s expected efforts to secure voter approval for a regional measure to fund permanently affordable housing.
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A step that San Francisco is undertaking or intends to undertake to implement the Housing Element’s policies and achieve its goals and objectives
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8.8.2
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Revise local process, procedures, and other relevant requirements to implement priority recommendations of HCD’s finalized Policy and Practice Review.
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1.5.5
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Engage with target communities to determine needs and advocate for expanded tenant and building-based rental assistance programs at the federal and state and local levels to meet the needs of extremely and very low-income households and households with fixed incomes, such as seniors and people with disabilities, as also referenced in Actions 2.1.2, 3.2.1, 1.5.4.
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7.4.2
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Continue to strengthen the interagency coordination (e.g. Roundtable Review) for permit processing of ADUs and implement an integrated online permitting system and permitting governance structure to support permit streamlining and government transparency.
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4.5.1
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Improve consultation with local Native Ohlone representatives, including the Association of Ramaytush Ohlone representatives, and American Indian residents in policy development and project review regarding tribal and cultural resource identification, treatment, and management while compensating them for their knowledge and efforts. Improvements should include commissioning the development of community-led, culturally relevant guidelines for identifying and protecting tribal and cultural resources and identifying funding sources for cultural resource identification, treatment and management.
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17
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Expand investments in Priority Equity Geographies to advance equitable access to resources while ensuring community stability
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4.3.6
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Grow a range of business and career-building opportunities in Priority Equity Geographies through resources to support affordable Production, Distribution, and Repair (PDR) space, protections and incentives for PDR in the Planning Code, enforcement of PDR zoning, and industrial (or commercial) design guidelines.
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3.1.5
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Improve programs intended to transfer people experiencing violent crime and domestic violence to safe housing.
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2.1.3
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As informed by Action 2.1.4 and in coordination with community liaisons referenced under Action 4.1.2, support and expand community-led navigation services and systems to provide tenants’ rights education and support and expand other related programs such as the existing culturally competent Code Enforcement Outreach Program that is offered within the Department of Building Inspection.
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8.5.7
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Issue comprehensive plan check comments concurrently with design review comments after submittal of a complete application within the timeframes required by the Permit Streamlining Act and/or Housing Accountability Act for housing applications; complete legislative and/or procedural changes to enable the CEQA and code review process to begin earlier in the application process to expedite permit processing.
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8.3.11
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Remove terminology of “neighborhood character” and “neighborhood compatibility” in the Urban Design Element. Replace such concepts with policies that avoid severe changes to building scale and architectural expressions that dehumanize the experience of the built environment, while supporting the need for physical evolution of neighborhoods in accommodating new housing. Explore implications with Proposition M. 17
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42
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Support cultural uses, activities, and architecture that sustain San Francisco's diverse cultural heritage
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4.5
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Cultural Heritage and Expression
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7.1.
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Rezoning Program
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29
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Complete community-led processes in Priority Equity Geographies that provide defined community benefits or mitigations for effects of new development consistent with state and federal law in order to reduce burdens on advocates of vulnerable populations and community members and establish more predictable outcomes for housing applications
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1.1.8
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Advocate for State legislation to change the voter approval threshold for General Obligation Bonds from two-thirds to at most 55 percent.
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8.6.16
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Expand nonprofit project management capacity, especially focused on areas of the city that have not seen much affordable housing development and where there are few or no community-based affordable housing developers.
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1.1.1
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By March 2023, convene City leadership, staff, policymakers, affordable housing advocates, and industry experts to collaborate on an Affordable Housing Implementation and Funding Strategy that provides specific recommendations and responsible parties to achieve and sustain the substantial public funding from local, state, and federal sources, that would join with public-private partnerships, needed to achieve the RHNA targets of over 46,000 units affordable at low- and moderate-incomes. Assign appropriate City staff to include a budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2023-2024 and complete this effort by January 31, 2024.
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3.1.1
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Identify and implement strategies by Spring 2023 to increase and accelerate placement in Permanent Supportive Housing through the Coordinated Entry System for racial and social groups who are overrepresented in the unhoused population, such as extremely and very-low income American Indian, Black, and Latino(a,e) people, transgender people, or people with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.
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9.2.2
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Provide neighborhood and infrastructure planning to mitigate flood risks during extreme weather events or due to climate crisis impacts, prioritizing resources for Priority Equity Geographies that overlap with Environmental Justice Communities.
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1.3.7
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Incentivize development projects to exceed the required inclusionary housing percentages to maximize the total number of Below Market Rate units via density bonus programs or streamlined regulatory paths as defined in Policy 25.