Here’s more of what State Sen. Scott Wiener has done to San Francisco:
The Board of Supes Land Use and Transportation Committee will consider legislation Monday/29 that would offer a huge financial windfall to market-rate developers at the expense of affordable housing.
The measure, by Sup. Bilal Mahmood, would undo decades of city policy mandating that market-rate developers pay to build a limited amount of affordable units at the same time they build their luxury projects.
The idea is simple: When market-rate units come online, they create a demand for affordable units. (They also create a demand for new Muni service, parks, schools, police, fire, and other city services that their property taxes typically don’t cover.)
Some developers include affordable units in their project mix, s