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San Francisco would need financial help to meet state-mandated affordable housing...

Skip to main content City loan was supposed to help fix S.F. public housing where London Breed grew up. Has it? FacebookTwitterEmail Ahmad Alaydi sits in front of a piles of belongings after a broken fire sprinkler flooded his home at Plaza East Apartments in San Francisco in May. Residents of the complex have been voicing concerns for years about its unsafe living conditions stemming from a backlog of deferred maintenance, while worrying the city's plan to repair and transform the complex into mixed-income housing will further gentrify the area.Stephen Lam/The Chronicle Two months after San ...

to my right is supervisor jane kim, the committee vice-chair and to my left is supervisor david chiu. sfgtv staff who are recording today's meeting are jessie larson and nona markonian. thank you to sfgtv. ms. miller, are are there any announcements? >> please make sure cell phones and electronic devices are. completed cards [speaker not understood]. items acted upon today will be on the march 19th board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk, will you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is an ordinance approving exceptions to requirements of...

supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you. madam clerk, will you please call item number 1? >> item number 1 is an ordinance approving exceptions to requirements of the seismic safety loan program under the administrative code and the sslp program regulations, regarding a $2,379,464 loan for an existing affordable housing project at the hotel isabel located at 1091 mission street. >> thank you. and supervisor kim is the author of this legislation. >> thank you, chair wiener. this is basically -- we are asking for an exception to our seismic safety loan program -- defer...

granting the s.u.d. i thought that that was both exactly what we would have expected because we feel we had such a strong case. but i also was very pleased when one of the commissioners said that this was a very, very good project. and we continued to believe it's a very, very good project. the appeal, quite frankly, is sort of a surprise. especially given it was a 5-1 vote. i'm a member of the church in the neighborhood and we had a number of our members have gotten together and talked about how we can support this project and how we hope it will go through because we're there and w...