Moments after approving an expanded goal for affordable housing construction on Tuesday, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors called on the state to build housing on top of San Francisco's California Department of Motor Vehicles field office parking lot.
Passed unanimously, the resolution urges state officials to contact the DMV about converting their 98,061-square-foot parking lot at 1377 Fell St. into a 100 percent affordable housing site.
"No more excuses or petty politics," Preston said. "It's time to take action to meet our ambitious affordable housing goals." This is not the first time the lot has been proposed to be used for housing. In 2008, the DMV lot was previously awarded to private developer Build Inc. to build affordable units, but construction plans halted after the company was "unable to make the project work," according to Preston's resolution.
"Much work remains to address the decades of neglect that created California's housing crisis, but today's vote shows how far we've come," Wiener said in a statement.
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