San Francisco’s Controller now recommends a 0% inclusionary housing requirement because nearly every tested housing prototype is financially infeasible under current market conditions, reviving a long-running debate over whether City Hall treats feasibility limits as ceilings or starting points.

City Hall needs more flexible revenue and to stimulate building development, but some want to keep tax rates high and locked to a single purpose.

A fully subsidized 199-home senior housing project planned for 1234 Great Highway is paused—not because it got tied up in local appeals, but because the funding stack depends on outside state and federal programs that have become less predictable.