Affordable Housing Opens at 78 Haight Street in San Francisco, Offering 64 Units

en.Wedoany.com Reported - The affordable housing project at 78 Haight Street in Hayes Valley, San Francisco, recently opened, featuring seven stories and 64 new units built on the former Central Freeway corridor site. The freeway was demolished after the Loma Prieta Earthquake. The Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) served as the project developer, with a joint venture between Guzman Construction Group and Suffolk overseeing construction management.

Half of the 64 units are designated for transition-age youth exiting homelessness, while the other half are for low-income families. Jennifer Dolin, CEO of the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, stated at the opening ceremony that the project embodies deeply affordable housing, housing specifically for transition-age youth, on-site support services provided in partnership with Larkin Street Youth Services, and access to resource-rich neighborhoods in San Francisco.

Paulett Taggart Architects handled the design, with TS Studio serving as the landscape architect. The white fiber cement-clad building features sawtooth bay windows overlooking the tree-lined Octavia Street boulevard.

The site is a narrow 0.12-acre lot overlooking the Octavia Street boulevard, which extends from Rose Street to Haight Street. Future residents will be one block from Market Street and four blocks from Patricia's Green public park.

The project development cost approximately $54 million, with $21 million from the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, $4 million provided through California's No Place Like Home Program, and additional funding from Silicon Valley Bank and Merritt Community Capital. Guzman Construction Group served as the general contractor.