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Housing supply and demand theory on trial at City Hall

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Advocates outside City Hall yesterday shout for fair wages and affordable housing, but will they get both?
Photo by Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez

The November ballot is shaping into a housing supply theory showdown, and yesterday’s [Thu/17] Board of Supervisors Rules Committee hearing was the first round.

The committee hosted two hearings on rival housing proposals for the November ballot: Sup. Jane Kim’s City Housing Balance Requirement and Mayor Ed Lee’s Build Housing Now initiative. The two purport to set similar goals for building affordable housing, but Lee’s proposal contains a poison pill that would invalidate Kim's measure. Read more »


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