S.F. Supervisors Gear Up for Battle Over Mission Housing Construction

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San Francisco Supervisor David Campos, outside the Mission Neighborhood Center, announces a proposal to halt market-rate housing developments in San Francisco's Mission District for two years. Photo by Alex Emslie/KQED

By Alex Emslie, KQED News Fix

San Francisco Supervisor David Campos is calling for a moratorium of up to two years on market-rate residential construction in the Mission District, a neighborhood that has become ground zero for the city’s housing crisis.

Campos represents the Mission, which his office says has lost more than 1,600 low- and moderate-income households since 2000. More than 8,000 Latinos have left the neighborhood over the last decade, community groups say.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix. 

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