San Francisco's District 5 supervisor candidates weigh in on expanding rent control.
Here’s the latest in our “Meet the Candidates” series for District 5, in which we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election. Four candidates are challenging incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston to represent District 5, which spans from the east end of Golden Gate Park through Haight-Ashbury, Japantown and the Western Addition, the Lower Haight and Hayes Valley, and most of the Tenderloin.
. We have a supervisor who makes perfection the enemy of great — and has a troubling housing record; he’s blocked several high-quality developments ; this pragmatic approach incentivizes new housing construction while adding to the rent-controlled stock. Rent control gives neighborhoods stability, preserving our neighborhoods’ culture and letting people grow deep roots in their community.like in Tokyo and Paris. Promote co-housing. by the Board of Supervisors that would apply to rental buildings completed before 1994, with the potential to add thousands of rent stabilized units in San Francisco.
Bilal’s YIMBY ideas are simply stupid. If a project won’t “pencil out” now when rents are high , how the fuck is it going to pencil out for a developer after a flood of new luxury units will ostensibly push the rental price so low that it working class families will magically be able to afford the rent?
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