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Supervisor will ask voters to authorize San Francisco to create 10,000 units of social housing
By Laura Waxmann – Staff Reporter, San Francisco Business Times
Jun 16, 2020, 4:26pm PDT Updated Jun 16, 2020, 4:28pm PDT

San Francisco Supervisor Dean Preston announced Tuesday he plans to place a ballot measure on the November ballot that seeks to authorize San Francisco to acquire, develop or construct 10,000 units of permanently affordable social housing.

Currently, localities like San Francisco are prohibited from creating municipally-owned housing by Article 34 of the California Constitution, which was approved by voters in 1950 as part of what Preston characterized as "redlining and segregation policies of that era" during a board of supervisors hearing on Tuesday.

Preston's proposal seeks to exempt San Francisco from that prohibition, and would require the support of a simple majority of the board to be placed on the ballot . . . .

https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco...lFbDBJM2lIbUxkamR0QjBBN2N3Z2U3VnhVIn0%3D

Because San Francisco city government has demonstrated such a fine ability to manage public housing (not):

San Francisco must take over troubled Housing Authority
By Adam Brinklow Mar 8, 2019, 2:26pm PST

The San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA) got word this week that San Francisco city government will take over most of its duties, as the federal government is fed up with what it calls mismanagement and financial irresponsibility at the agency that manages housing vouchers in SF.

Mayor London Breed said via email Thursday that SFHA “received notice from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that SFHA is in default of various agreements and obligations.”

HUD alleges that the Housing Authority has not been keeping up with necessary financial reports and has neglected oversight of its budgets.

The HUD move comes after a nearly $30 million budget deficit in 2018 required a bailout for SFHA from both the city and the feds . . . .

https://sf.curbed.com/2019/3/8/18256742/...y-takeover-assistance-federal-government