Join leaders from real estate and affordable housing to discuss ways
to make housing in SF more affordable for the future generations San
Francisco has long been known as one of the world's most expensive
cities to live in. With limited real estate, zoning regulations, high
construction cost and inflow of well-paid tech workers, SF's housing
price keeps rising over the years. Can tech help more people afford to
live in SF? How do we rethink the real estate development and
operations process to create more affordable homes? Speakers David J.
Sobel, Chief Executive Officer of San Francisco Housing Development
Corp. With 25 years’ experience in housing and community
development, David began his career as a planner and project manager
for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development in New York
City. For nearly ten years, David headed several major programs for
the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency, including its 800-unit
homeownership portfolio and 1,500-unit Inclusionary Housing Program.
In June 2013, David assumed the helm of the San Francisco Housing
Development Corporation, a then 26-year old, community-based,
nonprofit organization in San Francisco’s Bayview District. In the
past six years, SFHDC completed over 800 newly constructed or
renovated affordable units within five projects, and now has another
750 units in the production pipeline. Under Mr. Sobel’s leadership,
SFHDC also expanded its resident services program from 30 households
at one location to 825 households at six locations.A passionate
advocate for the provision of housing and economic opportunities for
low- and moderate-income households, David has served on the board of
several non-profit and civic organizations and was elected President
of the Board of Directors of the Neighborhood Preservation Coalition
of New York State, a state-wide advocacy association comprised of more
than 300 non-profit community development organizations. David holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in architecture and a
concentration in film from Columbia College in New York. Randy Shaw,
Executive Director, Tenderloin Housing Clinic Randy Shaw is Executive
Director of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic (“THC”). Randy Shaw
co-founded THC in 1980 and has been the group’s ED since graduating
law school in 1982. Shaw has also written six books, five for the
University of California Press. His latest is Generation Priced Out:
Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America. Among his other books is
The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San
Francisco. Shaw is also the Editor of BeyondChron.org and the founder
of the Tenderloin Museum. Dr. Rachel Brahinsky, Urban and Public
Affairs Program Director, Associate Professor, UCSF Dr. Rachel
Brahinsky is an urban geographer and an associate professor at the
University of San Francisco. She directs the Graduate Program in Urban
& Public Affairs and is affiliated with the Politics Department. Her
scholarship focuses on race and justice in cities, particularly in
California. She is the co-author of the forthcoming book A People’s
Guide to the San Francisco Bay Area (coming in Sept 2020). Her current
research investigates the geography of race and real estate on the Bay
Area, with a focus on the history of urban redevelopment, the primacy
of property in Bay Area politics, and the role of urban-spatial change
in shaping the human experience of the region.
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