![]() ![]() The effect of housing policies has been to discourage migration to California, especially San Francisco and other coastal areas, as the California Legislative Analyst's Office 2015 report "California's High Housing Costs - Causes and Consequences" details: For example, residents of the Mission District, constituting 5 percent of the city's population, experienced 14 percent of the citywide evictions in the year 2000. ![]() By 1995, residents of areas such as the Tenderloin and The Mission District, which house many immigrants and low-income families, were faced with the possibility of eviction, in order to develop low-income housing to more luxurious housing, which caters to the advances of the economy. All of this resulted in constant gentrification of many neighborhoods. Until the end of the 1960s, San Francisco had affordable housing, which allowed people from many different backgrounds to settle down, but the economic shift impacted the city's demographics. Many affluent tech workers migrated to San Francisco in pursuit of job opportunities and the lack of housing in the South Bay. ĭue to the advances of the city's economy from the increase of tourism, the boom of innovative tech companies, and insufficient new housing production, the rent increased by more than 50 percent by the 1990s. By 2013, hundreds of tenants had been evicted through the Ellis Act process. However, a California state law called the Ellis Act allows landlords to evict rent-controlled tenants by going out of business, and fully exiting the rental market. The city of San Francisco has strict rent control laws. Vacancies have also been highlighted as an issue in San Francisco and nearby cities, with Curbed estimating in 2019 that "San Francisco has nearly five empty homes per homeless resident." Effects For example, from 2012 to 2016, the San Francisco metropolitan area added 373,000 new jobs, but permitted only 58,000 new housing units. The resultant high demand for housing, combined with the lack of supply, (caused by severe restrictions on the building of new housing units ) caused dramatic increases in rents and extremely high housing prices. During the same time, there was rapid economic growth of the high tech industry in San Francisco and nearby Silicon Valley, which created hundreds of thousands of new jobs. Partly as a result of these codes, from 2007 to 2014, the Bay Area issued building permits for only half the number of needed houses, based on the area's population growth. Among other restrictions, San Francisco does not allow buildings over 40 feet tall in most of the city, and has passed laws making it easier for neighbors to block developments. Since the 1960s, San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area have enacted strict zoning regulations. When explicit racial discrimination was prohibited with the 1968 Fair Housing Act, white neighborhoods began instituting zoning regulations that heavily prioritized single-family housing and prohibited construction of the kinds of housing that poor minorities could afford. Historically, zoning regulations were implemented to restrict housing construction in wealthy neighborhoods, as well as prevent people of color from moving into white neighborhoods. Strict zoning regulations are a primary cause behind the housing shortage in San Francisco. The Bay Area's housing shortage is related to the California housing shortage. Late San Francisco mayor Ed Lee called the shortage a "housing crisis", and news reports stated that addressing the shortage was the mayor's "top priority". Over the period April 2012 to December 2017, the median house price in most counties in the Bay Area nearly doubled. The nearby city of San Jose, had the fourth highest rents, and adjacent Oakland, had the sixth highest. Starting in the 1990s, the city of San Francisco, and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area have faced a serious affordable housing shortage, such that by October 2015, San Francisco had the highest rents of any major US city. "Every single county is over-performing its job forecast, some by massive amounts, and every single county is under-performing its housing forecast, almost all by a wide margin," MTC director Steve Heminger said in his report to the Association of Bay Area Governments executive board last month. In addition, the San Francisco Chronicle notes that: This graphic shows the year that cities around the San Francisco Bay Area are projected to reach their 2040 housing targets as defined in Plan Bay Area 2040 (housing units needed to provide sufficient housing for the projected population growth) - in 2018, San Francisco was projected to be 23 years late to meet its 2040 target. ![]()
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