Mayors look for housing money – S.F., San Jose and L.A. top officials visit the Capitol
From today’s Chronicle, “As lawmakers and the governor try to forge agreement on a multibillion-dollar infrastructure bond to put before voters, the mayors of San Francisco, San Jose and Los Angeles joined forces Wednesday to ask that the plan include money for affordable housing.”
“We have an affordable housing crisis in the state of California. It’s particularly acute in the San Francisco Bay Area,” San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said in Sacramento. “We have a responsibility, moral and otherwise, to do something about it.”
“California voters approved a $2.1 billion affordable-housing bond in 2002, but that money is quickly running out.”
“Newsom and Villaraigosa met separately with Schwarzenegger at the statehouse to push for the inclusion of housing money. Newsom said Schwarzenegger was receptive to the request but made no commitment.”
