District 5 candidates on how they will speed up housing
Here’s the latest in our “Meet the Candidates” series for District 5, in which we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election. Four candidates are challenging incumbent Supervisor Dean Preston to represent District 5, which spans from the east end of Golden Gate Park through Haight-Ashbury, Japantown and the Western Addition, the Lower Haight and Hayes Valley, and most of the Tenderloin.San Francisco has a new mandate from the state of California to build 82,000 new homes by 2031, with more than half of those to be affordable to low- and moderate-income households. We’re not on track to meet this goal, and one of the big arguments in San Francisco’s housing debate — particularly as campaigning heats up in District 5 — has been over who is to blame for our slow housing […]
