Public Comment

I trust you will represent the interests of your constituents and not those of for-profit developers, who care only about their profit margin and who will not build affordable, energy-efficient housing for that reason unless required by law to do so. 

High density housing places ever more pressure on our aging infrastructure. Before supporting the interest of developers to build high density housing unfettered by low-income unit requirements, the legislature needs to address infrastructure upgrades. 

These bills, under the guise of addressing California’s urgent housing needs, fail to acknowledge that market rate housing is not what we need. It only takes up ever more sites that need to be reserved for housing for Californians who earn below the median income. These bills do NOT serve our urgent need for affordable housing. It becomes ever more clear that we must instead focus our efforts on subsidizing non-profit developers. Berkeley has a good model of a non-profit project going up now at Cedar and Oxford streets that will include low income units as in the old building owned by All Souls Episcopal Church.  

Please acknowledge that the trickle down theory has been definitely disproved (right across the Bay—building ever more big residential projects rented at market rate only served to increase the average rent in San Francisco) and vote NO on SB 9 and SB 10.