YIMBY messiah and State Sen. Scott Wiener tweeted this week that the state should “sue San Francisco to force change” to its housing policies, which like-minded advocates argue stifle new housing development.
The move was a tacit acknowledgement that The City may never build enough housing to solve its homelessness crisis — a problem supervisors laid at the feet of nearly every kind of elected official but themselves.
The supervisors' rejection of a proposed housing project on Stevenson Street last year drew state scrutiny , but not a lawsuit, Wiener noted.The policy approved by supervisors June 7 is not an all-out reversal from The City’s longstanding “housing first” approach to homelessness, but the legislation spearheaded by Supervisor Rafael Mandelman is certainly a diversion from that path.
“We can keep doing what we’ve been doing for the last 20 years, but I don’t think that’s actually going to allow us to address our street conditions,” Mandelman said.“I think it’s a pretty significant shift in policy, and we are asking for a plan to expand the entire continuum, and I think that it is not something that we’ve done before,” Melgar said.
According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, the nation has 200,000 fewer public housing units than it did in the mid 1990s, and many progressives have called for the repeal of the federal Faircloth Amendment, which effectively bans new public housing construction.
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