Grow SF empowers community stakeholders to advocate for affordable and market rate housing, with the ultimate goal of bringing down the cost of housing in San Francisco and the Bay Area.
We believe many of our current policies have far reaching unintended negative consequences, often falling most heavily on San Francisco’s vulnerable populations, increasing homelessness and displacement while driving up the cost of living for everyone.
Increasing the Bay Area housing stock will have a long term positive impact, improving our community’s economic and social well-being while reducing our environmental footprint.
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Grow SF brings together the diverse stakeholders in the Bay Area housing market, forming a essential coalition to address the current housing shortage. We use three core methods to achieve our goals:
By 2020, San Francisco will need to house over 920,000 people. We are not ready. Current policies have created an extreme shortage in available housing, leading to skyrocketing housing prices. San Francisco needs to address this crisis by building more housing.
Grow SF helps stakeholders get directly involved to help grow their neighborhood. Our engagement toolkit empowers all stakeholders to let their voices be heard. Grow Sf brings communities together in dialogue about individual projects and their impact on the overall housing market. Grow SF gives all stakeholders the ability to effectively support smart growth in the Bay Area.
Grow SF connects people with the resources needed to increase the housing stock. Focusing on potential housing of 10 units or smaller, Grow SF works to build bridges between constituencies and advocate for sensible projects throughout the Bay Area. While larger units are part of the solution, we know that every potential home is important to solving this crisis.
While direct activism is vital, the Bay Area also needs policy changes to bring down the cost of housing. Grow SF is a strong proponent of pro-growth policies. We support candidates and policies that address the current housing shortage. Grow SF rallies stakeholders and politicians to address current regulatory issues that exist today.
To illustrate the effects of current policies and the power of civic engagement, Grow SF follows up to ten current housing projects. These Case Studies illustrate the current housing shortage and the difficulties facing anyone working to increase the housing stock in San Francisco. Profiling these housing opportunities will put a face on projects ranging from small in-law units to 100+ unit buildings, examining the arguments for and against these opportunities to grow in the context of our current housing shortage.
Increasing the housing stock is fundamental to bringing down the cost of housing at all income levels. But this is not enough to address the current crisis. Too many of San Francisco’s most vulnerable are being squeezed and pushed out of our city.
Grow SF partners with organizations directly supporting people at-risk and experiencing homelessness, evictions and difficulties paying rent. As a vital part of our constituency, we know that the crisis is falling hardest on this diverse population. With direct engagement, Grow SF enables stakeholders to get involved and support the creation of affordable and mixed income housing throughout the Bay Area.
In addition to on-the-ground activism, Grow SF advocates for policy changes to increase the amount of affordable housing. Grow SF pushes for policies to increase the housing stock at every income level, and believes affordable housing needs to be a part of every large development project.
Too often those afraid of growth ask the question, “what kind of people will we be letting into our neighborhood?” Grow SF puts a face to these potential residents. With profiles of folks looking for housing in San Francisco, those waiting to move into new projects, and those at risk of displacement, we illustrate the direct human value of growing San Francisco.