Go big or go home: S F supervisor juices housing legislation to allow fourplexes on every single-family lot
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Bay Area cities face long odds in fighting state-mandated housing goals
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San Francisco s jobs-to-housing ratio is disturbing. Here s how wide the gap is getting
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But a new analysis of 20 metropolitan areas in the U.S. reveals just how much wider that gap is getting here compared with other major employment hubs, adding fuel to political and legal clashes over the region’s notorious unaffordability and strict building rules.
For every new home permitted in the San Francisco and San Jose metro areas from 2009-2019, there were more than three jobs created, according to a report released Wednesday by libertarian-leaning think tank the Manhattan Institute. In San Francisco, home to the worst “jobs-housing mismatch” of the cities studied, there were nearly 3.5 new jobs for every new home. In San Jose, it was 3.2 jobs.
The building was two stories, brick without detail, three small windows over a metal roll-up garage gate an eyesore if there ever was one, crammed between two taller neighbors. The proposed replacement was in gray brick, the creaky gate swapped for a glass-and-metal storefront, the windows making way for a delicate brick screen, to let the light in. Let your own eyes judge:
New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission
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This is what the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission thought: The old brick building, said commissioner and architect Michael Goldblum, “is very much reflective of the period of significance of the district.” And the new building’s design, “while appropriate in scope, needs to be examined and made more location-specific … that’s not a very tangible direction, but I think it’s something the applicants can think about.” Sorry: The architects would have to try again.