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Affordable housing in S.F. s Sunset District? Supes take step toward making it happen FacebookTwitterEmail The Police Credit Union at 2550 Irving St., pictured Jan. 14, is a proposed site for a 7-story affordable housing project in the Sunset District.Scott Strazzante/The Chronicle The city’s contentious push to build affordable housing on San Francisco’s west side got a significant boost Wednesday when a Board of Supervisors committee approved the acquisition of a Sunset District parcel slated for 98 low-income family apartments. Despite concerns from immediate neighbors about potential toxic substances in the soil, the lack of parking spots and the proposed seven-story building’s sun-blotting impact on the neighboring homes, the three-member committee voted unanimously to recommend that the full board approve a $14.3 million loan to buy 2550 Irving St., currently a San Francisco Police Credit Union branch. The parcel itself will cost $9 million, with the re ....
San Francisco’s Most Important Housing Project Westside Community Coalition Backs the Project Bringing Affordable Housing to the Westside San Francisco’s Sunset neighborhood is at the center of a housing debate that will shape the city’s future. It involves a 100% affordable project designed to house the working families who long lived in the Sunset. That it is even controversial is an indictment of San Francisco housing policy over the last four decades. The proposed 100 unit development at 2550 Irving is a break from the failed past. It sends a message that city leaders recognize that addressing San Francisco’s affordability crisis requires ramping up new housing on the under-developed Westside. In contrast, allowing opponents’ pressure to scaled down the project would hand a victory to climate change deniers those distributing “No Slums in the Sunset” posters in the neighborhood. ....