The Housing Crisis and What We Can Do About It

Housing Crisis

The Housing Crisis involves a lack of affordable housing in certain areas, like San Francisco, CA. It perpetuates gentrification, a decrease in diversity of communities, and homelessness. This issue is caused my a multitude of factors working together, such as a lack of incentive for home builders to build low cost housing and the several requirements one must fulfill before even creating homes.

Daily

• Do not stay in Airbnbs because they promote allocating housing for renting rather than building housing for people who need long term residence.
• Show support for rent control on social media platforms
• Call officials today and talk to them about the issue

Weekly

• Talk to city council members about the importance of putting a tax on short-term, rental housing → tax money can be used to build affordable, long term housing
• Petition for lowering homebuilders’ requirements and taxes to one’s local government officials so that general cost of approval for building houses goes done, thus lowering cost of housing

Monthly

• Donate to the Community Housing Partnership, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corps, and First Place for Youth
• Push for government to allocate more funding for affordable housing at city council meetings

Periodically

• Do not support Prop 1 when voting, for it supports moratorium which does not address underlying causes of housing crisis
• Volunteer at Causa Justa