Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Antje K. Steinmuller & Christopher Austin Roach
San Francisco has become a victim of its own success. The need for new housing has overwhelmed the city’s highly constrained urban form and pushed its social relations to the breaking point. This crisis of housing affordability has become impossible to ignore, and short of a massive influx of public money, a dramatic increase in the supply of housing units has been seen as the only workable solution to meet demand and make housing more affordable. In early 2014, the City’s ChiefEconomist estimated that it would be necessary to build 100,000 units of housing to begin to have a stabilizing effect on median rents.But under the current physical and political constraints on the city’s built form, finding thes pace to create this radical supply of housing would make it necessary to, in the words ofSupervisor David Campos, “build another city on top of the city.”
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AMP.105.43
Volume Editors
Luis Francisco Rico-Gutierrez & Martha Thorne
ISBN
978-1-944214-07-4
