The San Francisco Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) seeks proposals to conduct a study to determine the viability and recommended structure of a Municipal Housing agency pilot. For the purposes of this study, “Municipal Housing” is housing owned and operated by the City that is permanently affordable and serves all income qualified households with a maximum average of not more than 80% of median income across all units in a project. The study will have two primary goals. First, define and outline a structure for a pilot phase of a Municipal Housing enterprise agency to create and manage cross-subsidy, mixed income, City-owned housing. This study will include the number of full-time equivalent positions per subdivision and the total departmental cost estimate. Second, provide recommendations on centering tenant perspectives in execution and structure of department, especially low-income tenants. The outcomes of this study, and the final deliverable, will be a report used to inform budget recommendations for implementation of November 2020’s Proposition K, which authorized the City to own, develop, construct, acquire or rehabilitate up to 10,000 units of low-income rental housing and potentially inform the actions of the Housing Stability Fund Oversight Board.
