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?”
