Can these Mission affordable housing sites ease S.F. gentrification fears?
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/blog/real-estate/2015/02/affordable-housing-mission-campos-development.html
Three city-owned properties in the Mission District slated for about 200 affordable housing units will likely have developers picked this year, a step that could help ease gentrification worries.
To Mission District leaders, the three vacant affordable housing sites owned by the city sit as reminders of untapped potential. That's why the group Calle 24 – backed by Supervisor David Campos – wants the city to "fast track" the development of three sites at 17th and Folsom Streets, Shotwell and Cesar Chavez, and 1950 Mission St. It's part of the group's plan to put a temporary halt to market-rate development in part of the neighborhood.
The Mayor's Office of Housing next month will issue a request for proposals from developers who want to build at the 115-unit site at 1950 Mission St.. The 60-unit site at 17th and Folsom will get an RFP by the summer while the 40-unit site should have an RFP out by the end of the year, said Kate Hartley, deputy director at the Mayor's Office of Housing.
Because the projects will only include units that will be rented to residents who earn well below the city's median income, the Planning Department already will prioritize them for approvals. Still, construction wouldn't start on the three sites by 2017 or 2018 and the proposal process been delayed.
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