Senator Scott Wiener pushed through Senate Bill 35 which allowed housing developments with a percentage of affordable units to streamline the approval process in San Francisco, California Residents say they don’t want more housing units, they don’t want to live next to affordable housing Even with the incentives to... build affordable housing, The typical subsidized apartment still costs roughly $900k–$1.2 million to build in San Francisco The rent prices are on an income based system If you make 50% of the average income you could pay as little as $1,600 for a 1 bedroom. If you make 80% of the average income you would pay $2,550+ for a 1 bedroom in these subsidized housing projects Market-rate units in the same new buildings Studio: about $3,200 1-bed: about $4,300 2-bed: about $5,200show more

If you don't like Democrat policies, then stop voting for Democrats. I live in CA and the vast majority of voters here are brainwashed retards that actively vote against their own interests. They do this at nearly every opportunity that presents itself.

Government has never seen a problem it can't make worse.

Here's an interesting idea - # 1 Ship ALL the illegals OUT # 2 Ship Newscum and Bass OUT # 3 Get a professional auditor to stop the steal #4 Use taxpayers $ to FINISH a project that you start # 5 Fill that water reservoir! #6 Clean up your illegal voting That's a start!

This is California’s idea of affordable, take note of income! …… Orange County, not Silicon valley!

Averaging $600,000 per homeless person housed is crazy.

It's so much worse...that bill not also sets cookie cutter requirements on small towns like mine We had huge growth in early 2000s, not considered Pop of 50k, forced to build 2k units-so prob 15% pop boost one freeway packed nearly all day, infrastructure aging. Not considered

This is intentional destruction, communism, all dressed up. REVOLT CALIFORNIA🇺🇸VOTE STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN NO MATTER WHAT🇺🇸find out how NOW. Think Reagan 84+ MN🇺🇸. The “dem”/communist and invader friend party: liars, cheaters, hypocrites, THIEVES and VIOLENCE. EX-long time CA dem

Pedophile doing pedophile things.

There is plenty of desert in California why not build a homeless "city" and get them out of the cities

If you do the math, a lot of “Affordable Housing” is a complete poverty trap. The income restrictions create a box. You have to pay a huge percent of your income 25-35% to cover the “affordable” rent — too much to ever build any savings — but if you get a better job or a raise, you get priced out of the box. Now you have to move. Incredible, mean-spirited scam so typical of Leftists trying to “Help.”

If a cheap apartment still costs a million to build, it isn’t cheap. You sped up the paperwork You didn’t lower the bill.

Keep throwing more money at the problem

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It’s not about affordable housing, but instead diluting the vote in areas that tend towards conservatism.

Strange how this Jewish senator pushes the most deranged and destructive left wing agenda imaginable. Pro pedo laws, decriminalizing KNOWINGLY spreading AIDS, housing bills to flood communities with the third world…but for some reason (👃🏼) he went against the left on Palestine!

Those San Francisco liberals voted him in

"As little as $1,600" Read that again. We have to burn everything down.

Just build a new city. Call it Olympus 1.

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Welcome to the land of the NIMBY

Those prices are not realistic and really unacceptable. You would have to have a minimum income of around $200,000.00 annually to be able to afford such a rental fee, that doesn't include all of the other payments that go along with the rent; power, water, sewer, internet, etc.

Nothing to see here. Just cleaning the pool. You know.....skimming

Why not just house them in Costa Rica it’s gotta be cheaper

Dems just being dems.

Some of these land owners have found a way to sell and get out of town: affordable housing!

What a colossal waste of money.

Sorry you voted for it get over it

Put subsidy housing in the marina District… near the Golden Gate

This is great news, people who can't afford will be able to live in San Francisco. Why are people angry?

Trust me, those residents will not be worried about their distance from the 8 ball

Affordable housing = Blacks

They streamlined the permit process so they could spend a million dollars of other people’s money on an apartment the neighborhood didn't ask for, then charge rent based on how little you earn while the market tenant next door pays double. That is not a housing policy. That is a machine. Scott Wiener wrote SB 35 in 2017, so projects with a slice of “affordable” units could skip the ordinary fight and get ministerial approval. He extended and hardened it with SB 423. San Francisco used it. Units appeared. The price tag did not come down. The city’s own planning work now puts affordable two-bedrooms near $1 million each, construction eating more than 60 percent. The Budget and Legislative Analyst, June 2026, prices the average LIHTC stack at $954,127 per unit and plans RHNA at a $900,000 average, with city subsidies of $405,000–$490,000 a door. Wiener’s own 2026 housing platform admits the obvious: you cannot scale a system that still costs $1 million or more per unit in San Francisco. So the “streamline” did not stream value. It streamed a political product: income-tested rooms in a building that still costs as much to erect as a luxury condo. At 50 percent of area income, you might pay about $1,600 for a one-bedroom. At 80 percent, $2,550. Same hallway, market studio ~$3,200, one-bed ~$4,300, two-bed ~$5,200. The working neighbor subsidizes the formula twice—once in tax, once in rent next door—and is told he is selfish for not wanting the project on his block. A few shops have shown you can build for half if the capital is aligned on day one. That exception indicts the rule. The rule is still a million-dollar “affordable” unit, years in the pipeline, 12,600 subsidized units waiting on money, and a senator who keeps writing faster permits for the same cost disease. Residents saying they don't want more of that product is no mystery. They can see the invoice. Streamlining a million-dollar door is not compassion. It is how a city turns housing into a permanent appropriation and calls the appropriation a home.