IN A SEVEN TO FOUR VOTE, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors passed Mayor Daniel Lurie’s Family Zoning Plan, which will allow greater density housing to be constructed in transit and commercial corridors on the western and northern sides of the city. 

“Across our city, families are struggling to pay rent or hoping for an opportunity to buy a home where they can raise their kids,” Lurie said in a statement. “As elected leaders, we must do everything we can to help them, and the Board of Supervisors has taken an important step to do that today.”

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.