David Campos' Housing Graveyard
Actions speak louder than words...
David Campos' Housing Graveyard
Actions speak louder than words...
Former District 9 Supervisor
David Campos represented San Francisco’s District 9 on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (i.e., City Council). District 9 includes parts of San Francisco most in need of new housing to reduce rent and displacement.
Campos says he supports new housing.
Does he?
Campos says he's not a NIMBY. Read more and judge for yourself...
2675 Folsom Street would develop new housing on the site of an abandoned warehouse. In 2016, Campos sent a letter to the San Francisco Planning Comission opposing new housing at 2675 Folsom. The site now remains an abandoned warehouse.
Citations: Campos' letter is here, and the home numbers come from here.
Nordstrom uses a parking lot at 469 Stevenson Street in downtown San Francisco for its valet parking. Campos opposed a plan to replace this valet parking lot with new homes for approximately 875 people, including subsidized homes for approximately 256 people, saying it would lead to displacement nearby. However, research finds that building new housing such as this reduces nearby displacement by approximately 17%.
Citations: Information about the proposed homes is available here. Detail about Campos' opposition is available here. The 17% statistic comes from here.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built. Campos later voted to approve this development after it had been delayed multiple times - but it wouldn't have been built then if Campos' moratorium had passed.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active. See here for information about the building's later approval.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
David Campos sent a letter to the SF Planning Commission asking them to stop several new housing developments in the Mission, including 2600 Harrison.
Citations: Campos' letter is here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents).
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
In 2015, NIMBYs campaigned for a 30-month moratorium on new housing in the Mission District. Campos led support for the moratorium. Had the moratorium passed, this housing could not have been built.
Citations: You can watch Campos leading support for the moratorium here. The SF Housing Pipeline data here gives the number of housing units (from which we calculate the number of likely residents) and indicates that the building was approved during the time that the moratorium would have been active.
Campos consistently opposes removing local NIMBYs' ability to block new housing. However, San Francisco has built significant amounts of subsidized housing because state law has allowed housing developers to ignore local NIMBY opposition, which Campos opposes. For example, SB 35 made it harder for San Francisco to say no to proposed housing that is at least 50% subsidized. Since the bill’s passage, it has led San Francisco to build homes for 3,841 people, over 93% of which were subsidized homes of the kind Campos says he supports. Campos recently said he supports SB 35, even as he reiterates opposition to allowing the state to override "local control" - a contradiction Campos has not explained.
Citations: The Planning Commission calculated that SB 35 projects have produced 1,980 homes in SF, of which 1,851 are subsidized (see here). We use the default home-to-people conversion metrics from Planning as above given limited information about bedroom numbers on these projects. More background information on SB 35 is available here.
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