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SF Supervisors Back California Housing Justice Act to Tackle Homelessness and Affordability

  • When: 2025/05/13
  • City: San Francisco
  • State: CA
  • Category: Land Use Planning

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted Resolution No. 243-25 on May 13, 2025, expressing strong support for California Assembly Bill No. 1165, the California Housing Justice Act of 2025, which would direct the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop finance plans to solve homelessness and housing unaffordability and establish a dedicated California Housing Justice Fund with ongoing annual allocations. AB 1165 requires the Legislature to fund, at scale, evidence-based practices such as rental subsidies and flexible housing subsidy pools; and to invest in the development, acquisition, rehabilitation, and preservation of affordable and supportive housing for acutely low, extremely low, very low, and lower income households. The Act mandates that HCD collaborate with affordable housing experts, local agencies, housing authorities, continuums of care, justice organizations, and individuals with lived experience to produce finance plans and statewide annual performance metrics by January 1, 2027. It also requires the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency to report annually on progress toward benchmarks and to publish goals and updates online. The resolution requests the Clerk of the Board to transmit copies to Governor Gavin Newsom, Assembly Member Mike Gipson, Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire, Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, and San Francisco’s state legislative delegation. It underscores the urgency of sustainable, ongoing state investment tied to transparency and multilateral accountability to truly solve the housing crisis.

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