San Francisco???s $50 Billion Affordable Housing Problem

Incase you’re wondering how San Francisco’s housing crisis is going, there’s a new TV series in which Anthony Mackie travels a post-apocalyptic wasteland and fights a 300-pound killer clown because someone promises him an SF condominium — and this doesn’t feel like a totally implausible scenario.

The good news is that the city has committed to try to produce some 5,700 new affordable homes per year through 2031 under its new Housing Element, a blueprint required by the state every eight years. As The Frisc previously reported, that tally would be more housing than SF has created in any recorded year ever.

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