A new poll shows San Francisco residents are deeply dissatisfied with the city's failure to keep up with the growing need for affordable housing and are sick of real estate developers forcing working families from the homes they have lived in for years, replacing them with expensive condominiums.
Meanwhile, a special report on housing in District 8, which includes the LGBTQ Castro neighborhood, makes clear that new housing is scarce there.
As we report this week, "According to the report, 1,465 new housing units have been built in the last 10 years in District 8, representing 5.2% of the total new units citywide, and only 306 were affordable.