How many homes is San Francisco actually building right now?
This question is more important than ever; the city is deep in a housing crisis. Even with a few years of pandemic-related rent deflation, SF maintains one of the highest costs of living in the U.S., with housing as public enemy number one.
Even worse, production of homes went into a tailspin in 2022. Under threat from the state, City Hall just passed a long-term plan for tens of thousands of new homes here, but it’s just a blueprint. Without new rules to loosen long-standing building restrictions and unstick coagulated bureaucracies, actual roofs won’t materialize over San Franciscan heads, and the so-called housing pipeline will remain as clogged as ever.