Why in San Jose and San Francisco it is so difficult to build and what must change to jump-start construction.
Construction crews work at a residential highrise under construction in downtown San Jose, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023.
Gov. Gavin Newsom, once San Francisco’s mayor, has taken a personal interest in the city’s myriad social and economic problems and endorsed the report’s findings. The report recommends a number of specific reforms needed to jump-start housing in San Francisco. Its current mayor, London Breed, has been pushing a slate of procedural changes, but the city’s Board of Supervisors, whose members are acutely tuned to the city’s historic resistance to big housing projects, has been reluctant to act.
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