The Humboldt Bank Building in San Francisco, as seen from One Kearny Street, by Dllu, CC BY-SA 4.0.“The constant debate over how and where to build housing in California typically finds neighborhood preservationists and a pro-development cohort fiercely at odds with one another.
“So it’s no small feat that a new bill from Assemblymember Matt Haney, who represents San Francisco, appears to have aligned both YIMBYs and NIMBYs around fast-tracking conversion of historic downtown buildings into housing.”
Thus begins Kevin V. Nguyen’s “When pigs fly: NIMBYs and YIMBYs team up on new office-to-housing conversion bill,” in The San Francisco Standard, 8 May 2024. Read it here.
You may also enjoy Nguyen’s previous SF Standard article, “San Francisco ranks behind Birmingham, Charlotte and Hartford in converting offices into housing. Why?”
From arcCA DIGEST Season 17, “Adaptive Reuse.”
