The mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and Berkeley joined housing advocates at a press conference in San Francisco's Mission District on Thursday to announce support for a proposed $20 billion housing bond that would fund regional housing goals.
The mayors of San Francisco , San Jose and Berkeley joined housing advocates at a press conference in San Francisco 's Mission District on Thursday to announce support for a proposed $20 billion housing bond that would fund regional housing goals. Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao was also scheduled to appear at the press conference to express support for the regional measure but was not in attendance. A home connected to her was raided by the FBI earlier in the day.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed said the city had made some housing mistakes in the past and recounted living in a public housing complex when she was younger that was torn down, only to have the 300 units there replaced with 200 units. 'We didn't prepare for the future,' Breed said. 'We didn't prepare for a growing city, and housing has been a bit at a standstill in terms of our ability to get more built,' she said.
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