Portal:Housing

Starting in the 1990s, the city of San Francisco and the surrounding San Francisco Bay Area have faced a serious housing shortage. Such is the shortage that in October 2015, San Francisco had the highest rents of any major US city. San Francisco has the slowest permitting process of any large city in the United States. The first stage can take an average of 450 calendar days, and the second stage can take 630 days for typical multi-family housing, or 860 days for a single-family house. San Francisco also has the second-most expensive construction costs in the world ($473 / sq. ft.).

The nearby city of San Jose had the fourth highest rents, and adjacent Oakland had the sixth highest. Over the period April 2012 to December 2017, the median house price in most counties in the Bay Area nearly doubled. Late San Francisco mayor Ed Lee called the shortage a "housing crisis", and news reports stated that addressing the shortage was the mayor's "top priority". The Bay Area's housing shortage is part of the broader California housing shortage. (Full article...)

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