Whether you’re a NIMBY or a YIMBY, we should all agree that any upzoning of our city should be done in a way that protects low-income people and tenants from displacement.  Supervisor Chyanne Chen is sponsoring an ordinance that would help.  Among other things, it grants tenants whose units are being demolished the right to stay in their units until at least six months before construction starts (three months for low-income households), requires project sponsors to provide relocation aid to low-income tenants, and requires the project sponsor to offer each displaced low-income tenant a comparable unit in the new development at the tenant’s previous rental rate.  These protections are essential if we want to have any affordable rental units in SF.

Show your support for this important initiative by speaking in the public comments section at this week’s SF Planning commission hearing this week at 12pm this Thursday October 16, Room 400 City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place.  Tell the commissioners: we need to protect renters in SF!