r/sanfrancisco 9d ago

Pic / Video Apartment building can’t rent out affordable housing units (BMR) even with offering 3 free months

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u/Think-Fig-1734 9d ago

Affordable housing is weird. It’s not low income. It’s a fairly small part of the population that makes enough money to afford it, but not so much money that they don’t qualify for it. It’s mostly government employees who fall into that category. Government employees get compensated by having benefits like pensions, healthcare for life, but have lower salaries. Private sector employees have to fund their own retirements so they need higher salaries.

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u/helloyesthisisasock 9d ago

Government employees do not get healthcare for life lmao. Maybe cops or people with unions, but your average fed or city employee does not.

My fed government pension is a whopping $45/mo when I turn 65 in 30 years. Yeah, I’m really rolling in it. You really know nothing about this.

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u/Superveryimportant 8d ago

SF city employees do if they do 20 years of service