While the legislative push for a market-rate housing moratorium failed, the official summary for the proposed ballot measure to impose a Mission District Housing Moratorium has been filed with San Francisco’s Department of Elections.

The proposed measure would impose an 18-month moratorium on the issuance of any building permits for the demolition, conversion or construction of any housing project with 5 or more units, or the demolition, conversion or elimination of any existing Production, Distribution and Repair (PDR) space, within the Mission unless the permit was for a “100% affordable” housing project.

With the stated goal of enhancing and preserving affordable housing in the Mission, “such that at least 50% of all new housing be affordable to low-, moderate-, and middle-income households, and to ensure that those units would be available to residents of the Mission,” the measure would require the City to develop a Neighborhood Stabilization Plan by January 31, 2017.

And while the measure would specifically impose an 18-month moratorium, it would also authorize a simple majority of the Board of Supervisors, versus the super-majority which was needed to pass the legislative action, “to extend the moratorium for another 12 months.”