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This analysis breaks down housing affordability into three categories: “rent stabilized” – which includes rent controlled apartments and private single resident occupancy hotel (SRO) rooms; “market rate” –which includes all market rate apartments built after June 8, 1980; and “permanently affordable” – which includes public housing, non-profit managed SROs, and all other non-market rate units (including BMR). Both the CMTL area and the city as a whole have similar proportions of market rate housing – around 50%. The CMTL area however, has a much higher percentage of permanently affordable housing and a lower percentage of market rate housing.

Between 2011-2015, the proportion of housing units that were market rate rose by 6 percentage points in the CMTL area and 1 percentage point citywide. This shift is the result of 2,001 new market rate units in CMTL and 973 units of permanently affordable units. In contrast, the city as a whole gained 8,628 market rate units and 1,872 permanently affordable units; illustrating that roughly half of the city’s new affordable units fall within the CMTL boundary.

Dataset Source

Housing Inventory, SF Planning Department, 2011-2015.


