By Joe Rivano Barros, Mission Local
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted 9-2 today to favor local residents in affordable housing lotteries for the first time in city history. The new legislation would make it easier for residents of districts in which affordable housing projects are built to live in those projects.
Currently, residents hoping to live in affordable housing projects administered by the city must win a lottery. Preference already exists for residents displaced by redevelopment in the 1970s and those evicted under the Ellis Act, but today’s legislation creates a third category for those those who live near the housing project to which they are applying.
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