Housing Element Update 2014

Publishing date: April 2015

The Housing Element is a major part of San Francisco’s General Plan that seeks to ensure adequate housing for current and future San Franciscans.

This Housing Element details objectives and policies that address this growing housing demand, focusing on strategies that can be accomplished within the city’s limited land supply and that meet the housing goals developed during the outreach for this document, which include 1) prioritizing permanently affordable housing; 2) recognizing and preserving neighborhood character; 3) integrating housing, jobs, transportation and infrastructure; and 4) continuing to be a regional model of sustainability.

The Housing Element consists of two parts. Part I contains the background data and needs analysis, forming the basis for policy formulation. Part II lists objectives and policies and describes the programs to be carried out over the next five years to implement these objectives and policies.