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The question here is about housing demolished in order to build new housing. Merged units are not in this category. Merged units are when someone buys a duplex
by InternetGerbil 9y ago
The question here is about housing demolished in order to build new housing.
Merged units are not in this category. Merged units are when someone buys a duplex (or bigger) and removes all but one of the kitchens in the building and thereby makes one big house out of what used to be a house that was split into 2-4 apartments. That is not an example of housing being demolished in order to build new housing.
- InternetGerbil 9y agoHere is the city's 2015 housing inventory: http://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/2015_Housing_Inventory_Final_Web.pdf http://default.sfplanning.org/publications_reports/2015_Hous... It has more specific numbers, like in 2015, the city built 3,000 units and tore down 25. 15 of those were single family houses, which is not a category of housing that is affordable by any measure in SF in 2015. Vastly more affordable units are lost in SF through merger, Owner Move In evictions or just the previous tenant moving out and the new tenant being charged more than by demolition. It very much confuses the housing debate to believe or claim that every time a new apartment building goes up, it means by default that dozens of low income people were kicked out to make that happen. That is just not true.