At Scale: Big Proposals for San Francisco’s big housing affordability problem
(1st version written as reply to Ferenstein Greg. “Here’s What San Francisco Looks Like as an Affordable City.” 11 December 2015).
great initiative! Here are some existing proposals/projects to add large quantities of new housing to SF:
- Yale School of Architecture “Less is Enough” studio (Aureli / Emily Abruzzo) 2015 explored topic of how to add 100k new homes in SF .
2. Proposals from David Baker Architects, SF.
3. “Housing Solution: Backyard Cottages Could Add 1/3 More Homes to SF” and other articles in SF Public Press’ June 2014 Housing special issue.
4. “Housing Solution: Allow Off-the-Shelf Homes in San Francisco’s Underused Spaces.” (on my Houslets project and Luke Iseman’s Boxouse project.
there are others I can think of, eg going way back historically. Might these be contributed to an open collection somehow?
Relatedly, Shelter (UK housing charity) is asking all London mayoral candidates to offer plans for 50k new housing units/year.
More Proposals! [continued, December 15, 2015]:
5. Lantsberg, Alex. “Borrowing from Habitat and Rural Land Preservation: Affordable Housing Conservation Easements for San Francisco (and beyond).” 16 Sept 2015.
6. Mejias, Luis (Luis Eric. ). “Solving the housing crisis in San Francisco with factory-built housing technology and regulatory reform.” 2015. M.A. thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
7. I thought New London Architecture’s recent proposals contest was well-done, & good model: https://t.co/aSaRgFNH9h.
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