Three candidates vying to be San Francisco's next congressperson have differing opinions on how to address the city's housing crisis. Supervisor Connie Chan believes that almost any housing built in San Francisco will have to be subsidized to be affordable to working people. Saikat Chakrabarti takes a both-and approach, advocating for both market rate housing and subsidized housing. State Sen. Scott Wiener agrees with Chakrabarti, stating that different types of housing should not be pitted against each other. All three candidates agree on the need for massive investment in housing production and the government's role in funding it.
District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan, Saikat Chakrabarti, and Sen. Scott Wiener are officially in the running to succeed Rep. Nancy Pelosi. All three candidates vying to be San Francisco ’s next congressperson know that being able to afford a place to live here is pretty much the top priority for the vast majority of their constituents.
But in a Q&A with, Supervisor Connie Chan, centimillionaire and progressive organizer Saikat Chakrabarti, and State Sen. Scott Wiener diverged on several issues, including the question of whether building more market rate housing will help lower prices for everyone else. No, said Supervisor Connie Chan.
"Almost any housing that we now build in San Francisco, if we want it to be affordable to working people, it will have to be subsidized. " Chakrabarti took a both-and approach. Adding market rate housing should be part of fixing the city’s housing crisis, he said, "but it’s notState Sen. Scott Wiener concurred with Chakrabarti.
He hates "when different kinds of housing get pitted against each other," he said.
"As if you have to pick only one type of housing that you like, and therefore you have to hate all the other forms of housing. " What all three agreed on, though, was that the government should massively increase investment in housing production.
To subsidize that investment, Wiener wants to roll back Bush and Trump-era tax cuts to fund $1.2 trillion for building mixed-income social housing, expanding rental subsidies and paying cities $10,000 for every new unit they build to incentivize them to build more. Chakrabarti would like the United States to try and emulate Vienna by creating a system of non-profit housing developers that build mixed-income housing and reinvest any profits into more new construction.
To achieve this, he would like to see the federal government fund low and middle income housing through progressive taxation. On housing regulation, Wiener and Chakrabarti both support changes made to existing environmental laws so they can’t be used to block environmentally-friendly infill housing. They both support housing projects they didn’t like, even if the project met all the city’s requirements.
In recent years, California lawmakers, including Wiener, have supported changes to existing environmental laws to prevent them from being used to block environmentally-friendly infill housing. Chan, meanwhile, said that she wants the federal government to fund low and middle income housing through progressive taxation. On housing regulation, she supports discretionary review as "empowerment" for neighborhoods and communities. She believes that while it could be more efficient, discretionary review is "empowerment" for neighborhoods and communities.
"Do we see then at times it could be abused? Absolutely," she said, "like any other law. But that does not mean we abandon it.
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