Business Reporter

Kevin V. Nguyen

High interest rates and construction costs continue to make most market-rate projects unfeasible to build, despite steady rent growth.

Where city planners see a way to meet state housing goals, those in the neighborhood see “complete overkill.”

Pro-development factions are warning the mayor that a “too-timid approach” could be politically risky.

A bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener promises to cut red tape for housing permits to sail through the city’s arduous approval process.

Neighborhoods United SF, an anti-development group, is accused of fear-mongering in its quest to block rezoning.  