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RES |
Housing Element | |
| RES.INT | Introduction | |
| Addressing Housing Needs | ||
| Citywide Action Plan | ||
| Housing Supply | ||
| Provide new affordable housing, especially permanently affordable housing... | ||
| Encourage higher residential density in areas adjacent to downtown... | ||
| Encourage housing development, particularly affordable housing... | ||
| Identify opportunities for housing and mixed-use districts near downtown and former industrial portions... | ||
| Locate in-fill housing on appropriate sites in established residential neighborhoods. | ||
| Support development of affordable housing on surplus public lands. | ||
| RES.SLY.1.6 | Create incentives for the inclusion of housing, particularly permanently affordable housing, in new commercial development projects. | |
| RES.SLY.1.7 | Encourage and support the construction of quality, new family housing. | |
| RES.SLY.1.8 | Allow new secondary units in areas where their effects can be dealt with and there is neighborhood support... | |
| RES.SLY.1.9 | Require new commercial developments and higher educational institutions... | |
| RES.RET | Housing Retention | |
| RES.RET.2 | Retain the existing supply of housing. | |
| RES.RET.2.1 | Discourage the demolition of sound existing housing. | |
| RES.RET.2.2 | Control the merger of residential units to retain existing housing. | |
| RES.RET.2.3 | Restrict the conversion of rental housing to other forms of tenure or occupancy. | |
| RES.RET.2.4 | Retain sound existing housing in commercial and industrial areas. | |
| RES.RET.2.5 | Preserve the existing stock of residential hotels. | |
| RES.RET.2.6 | Consider legalization of existing illegal secondary units where there is neighborhood support and the units can conform to minimum Code standards of safety and livability... | |
| RES.HCD | Housing Condition | |
| RES.HCD.3 | Enhance the physical condition and safety of housing without jeopardizing use or affordability. | |
| RES.HCD.3.1 | Ensure that existing housing is maintained in a decent, safe, and sanitary condition, without increasing rents or displacing low-income households. | |
| RES.HCD.3.2 | Preserve at risk, privately owned assisted housing. | |
| RES.HCD.3.3 | Maintain and improve the condition of the existing supply of public housing. | |
| RES.HCD.3.4 | Monitor the correction of serious continuing code violations to prevent the loss of housing. | |
| RES.HCD.3.5 | Improve the seismic stability of existing housing without reducing the supply of affordable housing. | |
| RES.HCD.3.6 | Preserve landmark and historic residential buildings. | |
| RES.HAF | Housing Affordability | |
| RES.HAF.4 | Support affordable housing production by increasing site availability and capacity. | |
| RES.HAF.4.1 | Actively identify and pursue opportunity sites for permanently affordable housing. | |
| RES.HAF.4.2 | Include affordable units in larger housing projects. | |
| RES.HAF.4.3 | Encourage the construction of affordable units for single households in residential hotels and "efficiency" units. | |
| RES.HAF.4.4 | Consider granting density bonuses and parking requirement exemptions for the construction of affordable housing or senior housing. | |
| RES.HAF.4.5 | Allow greater flexibility in the number and size of units within established building envelopes... | |
| RES.HAF.4.6 | Support a greater range of housing types and building techniques to promote more economical housing construction... | |
| RES.HAF.5 | Increase the effectiveness and efficiency of the City's affordable housing production system. | |
| RES.HAF.5.1 | Prioritize affordable housing projects in the planning review and approval processes, and work with the development community to devise methods of streamlining housing projects. | |
| RES.HAF.5.2 | Support efforts of for-profit and non-profit organizations and other community-based groups and expand their capacity to produce and manage permanently affordable housing. | |
| RES.HAF.5.3 | Create greater public awareness about the quality and character of affordable housing projects and generate community-wide support for new affordable housing. | |
| RES.HAF.5.4 | Coordinate governmental activities related to affordable housing. | |
| RES.HAF.6 | Protect the affordability of existing housing. | |
| RES.HAF.6.1 | Protect the affordability of units in existing buildings at risk of losing their subsidies or being converted to market rate housing. | |
| RES.HAF.6.2 | Ensure that housing developed to be affordable is kept affordable. | |
| RES.HAF.6.3 | Safeguard tenants from excessive rent increases. | |
| RES.HAF.6.4 | Achieve permanent affordability through community land trusts and limited equity housing ownership and management. | |
| RES.HAF.6.5 | Monitor and enforce the affordability of units provided as a condition of approval of housing projects. | |
| RES.HAF.7 | Expand the financial resources available for permanently affordable housing. | |
| RES.HAF.7.1 | Enhance existing revenue sources for permanently affordable housing. | |
| RES.HAF.7.2 | Create new sources of revenue for permanently affordable housing, including dedicated long-term financing for housing programs. | |
| RES.HAF.7.3 | Develop greater investments in and support for affordable housing programs by corporations, churches, unions, foundations, and financial institutions. | |
| RES.HCH | Housing Choice | |
| RES.HCH.8 | Ensure equal access to housing opportunities. | |
| RES.HCH.8.1 | Encourage sufficient and suitable rental housing opportunities and emphasize permanently affordable rental units wherever possible. | |
| RES.HCH.8.2 | Employ uniform definitions of affordability that accurately reflect the demographics and housing needs of San Franciscans. | |
| RES.HCH.8.3 | Ensure affirmative marketing of affordable housing. | |
| RES.HCH.8.4 | Encourage greater economic integration within housing projects and throughout San Francisco. | |
| RES.HCH.8.5 | Prevent housing discrimination. | |
| RES.HCH.8.6 | Increase the availability of units suitable for users with supportive housing needs. | |
| RES.HCH.8.7 | Eliminate discrimination against households with children. | |
| RES.HCH.8.8 | Promote the adaptability and maximum accessibility of residential dwellings for disabled and elderly occupants. | |
| RES.HCH.8.9 | Encourage the provision of new home ownership opportunities through new construction... | |
| RES.HCH.8.10 | Ensure an equitable distribution of quality board and care centers, and adult day care facilities throughout the City. | |
| RES.HCH.9 | Avoid or mitigate hardships imposed by displacement. | |
| RES.HCH.9.1 | Minimize the hardships of displacement by providing essential relocation services. | |
| RES.HCH.9.2 | Offer displaced households the right of first refusal to occupy replacement housing units that are comparable in size, location, cost, and rent control protection. | |
| RES.HML | Homelessness | |
| RES.HML.10 | Reduce homelessness and the risk of homelessness in coordination with relevant agencies and service providers. | |
| RES.HML.10.1 | Focus efforts on the provision of permanent affordable and service-enriched housing to reduce the need for temporary homeless shelters. | |
| RES.HML.10.2 | Aggressively pursue other strategies to prevent homelessness and the risk of homelessness by addressing its contributory factors. | |
| RES.HML.10.3 | Improve coordination among emergency assistance efforts, existing shelter programs, and health care outreach services. | |
| RES.HML.10.4 | Facilitate childcare and educational opportunities for homeless families and children. | |
| RES.DSY | Housing Density, Design, and Quality of Life | |
| RES.DSY.11 | In increasing the supply of housing, Pursure place making and neighborhood building principles and practices... | |
| RES.DSY.11.1 | Use new housing development as a means to enhance neighborhood vitality and diversity. | |
| RES.DSY.11.2 | Ensure housing is provided with adequate public improvements, services, and amenities. | |
| RES.DSY.11.3 | Encourage appropriate neighborhood-serving commercial activities in residential areas, without causing affordable housing displacement. | |
| RES.DSY.11.4 | Avoid or minimize disruption caused by expansion of institutions, large-scale uses and auto-oriented development into residential areas. | |
| RES.DSY.11.5 | Promote the construction of well-designed housing that enhances existing neighborhood character. | |
| RES.DSY.11.6 | Employ flexible land use controls in residential areas that can regulate inappropriately sized development in new neighborhoods... | |
| RES.DSY.11.7 | Where there is neighborhood support, reduce or remove minimum parking requirements for housing... | |
| RES.DSY.11.8 | Strongly encourage housing project sponsors to take full advantage of allowable building densities in their housing developments while remaining consistent with neighborhood character. | |
| RES.DSY.11.9 | Set allowable densities and parking standards in residential areas... | |
| RES.DSY.11.10 | Include energy efficient features in new residential development and encourage weatherization in existing housing... | |
| RES.HSN | Regional and State Housing Needs | |
| RES.HSN.12 | Strengthen Citywide affordable housing programs through coordinated regional and state efforts. | |
| RES.HSN.12.1 | Work with localities across the region to establish a better relationship between economic growth and increased housing needs. | |
| RES.HSN.12.2 | Support the production of well-planned housing regionwide... | |
| RES.HSN.12.3 | Encourage jurisdictions throughout the Bay Area to recognize their share in the responsibility to confront the regional affordable housing crisis. | |
| RES.HSN.12.4 | Foster educational programs across the region that increase public understanding of the need for affordable housing and generate support for quality housing projects. | |
| RES.HSN.12.5 | Support the State of California in developing and implementing state affordable housing plans and programs. | |