By Sarah Wright : sfstandard – excerpt

San Francisco is back at it with housing denials, this time killing 57 units planned for a 15-spot parking lot in the city’s South of Market district.

A conditional use authorization for the 1010 Mission St. project was denied at the Planning Commission last week in response to concerns from local community groups, who argued that the units were too small and that too few of them, at 13, would be considered “affordable” with even fewer set aside for the lowest-income people in the city…

“I believe the opposition of this project is really representative to what seems to be a trend of market-rate micro-unit housing being proposed in dense neighborhoods like SOMA,” said Commissioner Gabriella Ruiz, who voted against the project’s zoning approval.

PJ Eugenio, an employment counselor from the South of Market Community Action Network, was one in a deluge of speakers who attended Thursday’s meeting to oppose the project. He and others argued that SOMA already has too many single-room occupancy units that aren’t affordable, saying it’s “out of touch with the community.”…(more)

No one can claim the opposition is fighting housing when there is proof that a lot of the tiny units are empty because no one wants to live in them. Even homeless people and lower income people have standards and the new closets do not meet their needs. It is time to tackle the affordability problem and handing out entitlements does not solve that problem or satisfy the RHNA quotas. We just learned the thousands of entitled unbuilt properties in the pipeline do not count. Neither do the thousands of empty unfilled units. Once people see the goals behind the RHNA numbers are unobtainable, there is widespread interest in joining the fight against them. Find out more about the RHNA wars September 21, 2022, 6:30PM on the Zoom Town Hall: https://catalystsca.org/ where some city leaders will explain why they are joining the lawsuit.