As one of the pioneers in the first wave of Navigation Centers in San Francisco under Mayor Ed Lee, the Civic Center Hotel not only transformed into San Francisco’s second-ever Navigation Center – providing robust support services including case management and clinical mental health care – it also continued to be home to residents who resided there nearly two decades. The Navigation Center provided critical housing case management in partnership with Coordinated Entry – the City’s “front door” for connecting those experiencing homelessness to available resources, including housing.

Since 2015, ������has managed the Civic Center Hotel Navigation Center with remarkable success, placing 416 individuals into Permanent, Supportive Housing throughout San Francisco! Of which 29 were placed in ������properties. In surveying folks as they exited the Navigation Center, 77% of over 650 people noted a positive experience – a testament to the effort and dedication of HomeRise’s case management staff.

As the Civic Center Hotel Navigation Center nears its end, all of the building’s permanent residents have moved into HomeRise’s newest building, Jazzie Collins Aparments just around the corner at 53 Colton Street. Additionally, all of the Navigation Center participants will have relocated to either Jazzie Collins Apartments, ������at Mission Bay, or other Permanent Supporting Housing residences throughout the city.

We also highly encourage you to listen to the KQED Forum episode, “What It Takes to Make SRO Hotels Run Well” where ������and the Civic Center Hotel Navigation Center feature prominently: learn more about this building, its’ history, and the impactful services it provided, please visit:

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Jazzie Collins Apartments has officially opened ahead of schedule at in neighborhood. The six-story building, named after one of the city’s famous social activists, has created 96 new units of permanent supportive housing co-developed by and . The opening occurred earlier this week with the Mayor in attendance.

������shares that Jazzie Collins Apartments aims to serve “our community’s most vulnerable, at-risk residents – adults formerly experiencing homelessness here in San Francisco.” Collins herself advocated for the city’s seniors as the Vice Chair for the LGBT Aging Policy Task Force and on the San Francisco Trans March’s board of directors.

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San Francisco, CA — Today, Mayor London N. Breed joined City officials and community leaders to celebrate the grand opening of the Jazzie Collins Apartments, located at 53 Colton Street. The 96-unit, 100% permanent supportive housing development is part of a larger mixed-use development at 1629 Market Street, also known as the Plumbers Union project. The new supportive housing units, along with the construction of an additional 499 units as part of the Plumbers Union project, are a key part of the revitalization of the greater “Hub” neighborhood surrounding the intersection of Market Street and Van Ness Avenue.

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Jazzie Collins Apartments represents a joint venture partnership between ������and Strada Investment Group who co-managed the project’s entitlements and development process and co-secured the project’s financing. Strada provided funding and managed construction for the project, while ������is managing all lease-up and operational start-up activities. ������is also the owner, property manager, and service provider of Jazzie Collins Apartments.

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Thursday’s decision: Gun violence and safety is a significant issue for our residents, ��The decision by the Supreme Court making it possible for anyone to carry a concealed weapon is a direct threat to safety and health of our 2,000 residents and 300 staff.�� It will make our ability to enhance our violence prevention strategy even more challenging.

Friday’s decision: By overturning Roe v. Wade, women’s rights are now severely impacted and there will be both a monumental health care impact and a profound economic impact on the well-being of women and their children most acutely effecting low income woman and people of color.�� At HomeRise, we help the 2,000 people we serve secure healthcare services through permanent supportive housing, including 159 children and over 200 parents.�� Many more women in the U.S. will be forced to carry often unwanted pregnancies to term now, thrusting many of them into (or deeper into)��poverty.�� The result will be an increase in homelessness on a system already struggling to manage the existing unhoused population in SF and beyond.

Future Erosion of Civil Rights:

Besides the freedom of medical choice, we know from Justice Clarence Thomas’s comments after yesterday’s decision, that life choice and the same undergirding principles which allow for LGBTQ marriage are next on the agenda of the Supermajority of the Supreme Court.�� So, the overturning of Roe should be both a wake up and a unifying call for every person regarding our right to privacy and broader civil rights.�� In the majority opinion overturning Roe, Thomas wrote:

“In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell,” Thomas wrote, referring to decisions on contraception, sodomy, and same-sex marriage.

Overturning these three other precedents would severely impact the LGBTQ community which make up a disproportionate percentage of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco—see data below.

Please read on and help spread awareness for some of the community Pride gatherings this weekend.

While the Pride festivities we know today might normally appear like a city-wide party, it’s especially important to remember that the origins of Pride are rooted as much in liberation and struggle as in celebration – a struggle that remains relevant to today as we see the��LGBTQ community come under attack by��possible decisions of the court to��erode��hard won protections.

As important as the dates on your calendar are the very real facts and figures that affect the lives of the LGBTQ community well beyond Pride Month:

• 2 times:��Sexual Minority groups are twice as likely as the general population to experience homelessness
• 20 percent��of Black transgender people are unemployed and��38 percent��in poverty, more than��2 times��the average rate of non-transgender black people
• 28 percent��of LGBTQ youth reported experiencing homelessness or housing instability at some point in their lives — and those who did had��3.5���پ��������the rate of attempting suicide
• 40 percent of 4.2 Million��youth experiencing homelessness identify as LGTBQ despite representing just��9.5 percent��of the general population
• 50��Transgender��people murdered in 2021
• 120 percent��higher risk of homelessness for LGBTQ than the general population

For more information on the events this weekend, please visit:

• Pride Parade:��
• Trans March:��
• Dyke March:��

In the coming days and weeks there will certainly be a slew of more marches and demonstrations in SF and throughout the Bay Area.�� ������stands in solidarity with all those who stand for the pursuit of justice, rights, choice, and freedom and will continue to post activities for people to make their voices heard.

For more information on the facts and figures listed in this post, please visit:

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Juneteenth serves as a symbolic milestone on our journey toward a perfect union; celebrations at churches, parks, parades, and barbecues, are filled with sounds of Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Miles Davis, and many more as the communities come together to celebrate the enduring promise of our country; that all of us are created equal.

On Thursday, June 17, 2021, President Joe Biden signed a bill creating a new federal holiday, “Juneteenth National Independence Day,” to celebrate the freeing of America’s last slaves—the first federal holiday to be created in nearly 40 years, noting that it was the first national holiday established since Martin Luther King’s birthday in 1983.

Our celebrations are stained with anguish this year as the Black communities across the United States bear yet another racial attack. A mass shooting in Buffalo methodically shot and killed ten people and injured three more—almost all Black—in one of the deadliest racist massacres in recent American history. Their God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness were cruelly snatched away. Our hearts go to their families, friends, and the Buffalo community.

We don’t have to look far to see that racism, bigotry, hate, and intolerance are still all too alive in our world, just as the slaves of Galveston knew that Emancipation was only the first step toward true freedom—with an abundance of work remaining undone.

Reflecting on history, Juneteenth has never been a celebration of victory or an acceptance of the way things are, instead it’s a celebration of progress. Despite the most painful parts of our history, things do get better.

Today is a day to find joy in the face of ambiguity. Let’s count our blessings, hold the ones we love closer, and take a moment to connect with our Ancestors who lifted their voices in sounds and words, “Free at Last, Hallelujah I’m Free.” This day belongs to Black Communities across America.

– Germaine Daneille Bond, DEI Taskforce Chair

To learn more about the history behind Juneteenth and why it resonates today, please watch this

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TAY are young adults (18-25) transitioning out of public systems, like foster care, and/or are at risk of experiencing homelessness. ������has positioned its innovative service delivery model to fit the specific needs of TAY residents.

What services are offered?

Using housing as a platform, ������provides a combination of case management services, clinical mental health services, groups and events, community-building activities and skill-building to help TAY on their path to self-sufficiency.

At the 5th Street Apartments on 5th and Harrison in SoMa, an intensive workforce development program is run out of the Training & Development Center, a nearly 3,000 sq. ft. space on the building’s ground floor specifically devoted to workforce training and development needs. Providing residents a stable and dedicated learning environment, complete with a computer lab, the Center helps program participants build their professional skills while incorporating needed computer learning skills into training classes. .

Further north in the Marina, ������partnered closely with Larkin Street Youth Services and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development to transform the Edward II Inn into 25 units of supportive housing, serving TAY. With ������the Edward II, residents receive a combination of job training, case management services and educational support provided by Larkin Street’s highly effective programming.

Housing Challenges Facing TAY and Foster Youth in San Francisco:

Mayor Newsom, first codified policy recommendations addressed at improving outcomes for San Francisco’s most vulnerable youth under the Mayor’s Task Force on Transitional Youth. This report found that one of the most critical components of successful programs for TAY, were those that provided supportive services.

San Francisco has one of the highest rates of TAY homelessness in the country. The most recent Point-In-Time survey conducted in San Francisco, found that of the 1,145 TAY experiencing homelessness in the city, 82% lacked shelter, and 29% had been in the foster system. In addition, almost half of the TAY experiencing homelessness identify as LGBTQ+, while TAY of color are disproportionately represented compared to the city as a whole.

Housing and supportive services are crucial interventions in the lives of TAY experiencing homelessness so that they may enjoy a health transition to adulthood.

TAY at HomeRise

Count of TAY-dedicated units in ������sites: 68 (24 at Edward II and 44 at Fifth Street )

Count of groups held in 2021 at 5th Street’s Training & Development Center: 101

Current count of active TAY residents in all ������buildings: 127 (103 residents from HomeRise’s 14 sites with ������services staff + 24 from Edward II)

Learn more below:

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Who was Zygmunt Arendt?

Zymunt Arendt, a WWII-refugee, led a brief career as a car inspector for Southern Pacific Railroad for just over a decade. Arendt’s true calling was as a savvy investor, where he amassed a small fortune playing the stock market. At the time of his passing, Arendt’s canny investment strategies saw him yield dividends of nearly $20,000 per month – leaving behind an estate worth around $6 million.

In his last will and testament, handwritten in 1989 nine years before his passing, he bequeathed his wealth to the City of San Francisco for the sole purpose of helping the city’s poor and elderly. The City paid his request forward, investing in the development of the Zygmunt Arendt House. Today, the dozens of residents that call Zygmunt Arendt House home, are a testament to Arendt’s kindness, and the fulfillment of his last wish coming true.

Learn more about Zygmunt Arendt House and Zygmunt Arendt below:

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The daughter of prominent Fillmore minister and NAACP Vice President, Reverend Arnold Townsend, political activism was imparted on Rachel from a young age. Rachel lent her time to local churches, working with fatherless young girls. She campaigned for local Black candidates like Mayor London Breed. She reconnected youth to a proud history and community of Black rodeo.

Rachel is most profoundly known for her role as a driving force behind San Francisco’s Juneteenth celebrations, and in 2013 she began organizing the city’s entire Juneteenth event. Juneteenth in San Francisco is the longest continuous urban Juneteenth celebration throughout the country. The struggle for the survival and revival of Juneteenth in San Francisco that Rachel so resiliently fought for in many ways mirrors the history of the Black community across San Francisco that has combatted forced displacement from the Fillmore and Western Addition since WWII. As her father Rev. Townsend notes, “Even at this time when our population is dwindling, and it looks so hopeless, there will always be a Black presence. It’s to mark that we were once here. Some child is going to always ask: Who was she? Who was Rachel Townsend?”

After Rachel’s sudden passing in 2018, Mayor London Breed joined community leaders and ������in December of the same year to celebrate the rehabilitation and rededication of 1750 McAllister Street as the Rachel Townsend Apartments. The following year’s Juneteenth celebrations were named in her honor, commemorating her work to hold space for Juneteenth in San Francisco.

What is Juneteenth?

“June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln presented the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, slaves in Texas finally received word: They were free. Black communities in Texas and beyond annually celebrate this day, Juneteenth, which officially became a federal holiday in 2021.” Source:

San Francisco’s Juneteenth History:

Juneteenth was introduced to San Francisco’s Western Addition community by Wesley Johnson, a Texas native. Celebrations spread throughout the 1940s, mostly in smaller community spaces such as churches and Black-owned nightclubs, the latter of which played host to Fillmore’s thriving, “Harlem of the West”, jazz scene. 1950s and 1960s federal redevelopment policies carried out by the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency later decimated large swaths of the Fillmore in the name of slum clearance and urban renewal, destroying much of the existing building stock including many of the buildings that once housed Juneteenth commemorations. From the 1960s onward, Juneteenth morphed into the public celebrations more commonly seen today. Shrinking political support from City Hall, in part a reflection of San Francisco’s declining Black population, forced the community to shoulder much of the burden for organizing and running the city’s Juneteenth celebration. One pillar of this community work we honor today, was Rachel Townsend.

Learn more about Rachel Townsend and San Francisco’s Juneteenth Celebrations here:

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Working Nation, by Laura Aka

HomeRise, a San Francisco nonprofit that has been around for more than 30 years, helps secure housing for the homeless population and offers job training and temporary work placements with a goal of permanent employment. The last count of unhoused people in San Francisco tallied about 8,000 people.

Since the onset of the pandemic, more than 3,700 people have been served by the City of San Francisco’s Shelter-in-Place (SIP) hotels—launched in April of last year. When the SIP program ends, ������will partner with the city to help remaining participants obtain permanent supportive housing.

CEO Rick Aubry says the ‘housing first’ model is critical. “It’s something that has been studied numerous times that’s proven to be the most effective intervention. It’s something that is somewhat counter-intuitive for lots of folks, because there is sort of a moral imperative in the United States where you have to earn it, before you get in.”

The 1,500 ������units are a combination of acquired single room occupancy buildings and new construction. The units are home to 1,920 people including 300 children who live with one or two parents.
Rick Aubry, CEO at ������(Photo: HomeRise)

Aubry continues, “If you provide people with the safety and security of a place to live and you let them then start organizing their lives, it’s proven much more likely that their lives will prove to be successful.”

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After a fire tore through a Victorian on Shotwell Street in the Mission, the building — which used to house six seniors in a residential care home — sat empty for six years.

Small residential care facilities like the one at 628 Shotwell St. are disappearing at an alarming rate in San Francisco, putting vulnerable seniors and adults with disabilities, mental illness or addiction at risk of homelessness with little access to needed treatment services.

In San Francisco, the number of assisted living facilities for seniors and adults with disabilities dropped 38% since 2012, with beds dropping 17%, according to city reports. Hardest hit were the smallest facilities serving low-income residents. At least 100 people were waiting to get a spot in a facility, according to the most recent count.

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The selection of Shireen McSpadden to lead the city’s homelessness department is being greeted optimistically by officials who have dealt extensively with San Francisco’s chronic inability to find shelter for all its residents.

Supervisor Aaron Peskin and Joe Wilson, a prominent advocate for homeless people, said they were encouraged by the choice of McSpadden, who is set to take over May 1 — becoming the fourth person to hold the role in 14 months.

The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing was founded in 2016 by former Mayor Ed Lee, who consolidated programs that had been scattered throughout different departments and brought them all under one roof with the promise of ending homelessness for 8,000 San Franciscans in four years.

“The very agency charged with housing people in our city has allowed a situation where hundreds of units have remained vacant for months on end while people continue to languish on the streets,” Sara Shortt, director of public policy and community organizing at the Community Housing Partnership

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Now, we’re excited to announce that Community Housing Partnership has changed their name to��HomeRise.

Community Housing Partnership was founded on a simple-yet-powerful idea: that a real home combined with support services — like health care, counseling and job training — could provide the stability a person needs to escape homelessness for good.

This idea, known as supportive housing, will continue to be at the heart of what we do as HomeRise.

Supportive housing has been the springboard for San Franciscans experiencing homelessness to stabilize and improve their lives. Like George, a talented singer who is ready to move out of supportive housing into an apartment of his own. And Molly, now a grandmother, who says, “I have a home. I have a life. I may not be rich, but I have a rich life.”

Together with our dedicated supporters and partners, we have helped thousands of San Franciscans overcome homelessness. Thousands of San Franciscans are no longer on the streets. Thousands of our neighbors have built a better life for themselves — and this city we all love.

But it hasn’t always been easy, especially these past few years. The changing economy coupled with competition for housing pushed more people onto the streets. More people felt like things were moving in the wrong direction. Then, the pandemic showed us how many more of our neighbors were already living on the brink.

News coverage called our city a failure. The human suffering became too much to bear. And San Francisco began to lose hope.

������is our antidote to lost hope. ������is the power of a stable home to help a person rise up from their circumstances.

������is the resilience of our residents, who rise up after life has knocked them down, and rise up to advocate for laws that prevent homelessness.

������is when everyday San Franciscans rise up to play their part — volunteering their time, talking to their neighbors, making a donation of money or essential items — to make a difference.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from our past 30 years, it’s that rising up and working together is where hope comes from. It’s why so many people who experienced homelessness now have a safe place to call home.

Thank you for your continued support, partnership and trust. Together, we can change lives and rebuild this city we love.

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San Francisco is expanding a new program to the Bayview that aims to be an alternative to policing by having a team of behavioral health professionals and paramedics respond to certain 911 calls.

The Street Crisis Response Team will respond to non-violent reports of people in mental health crisis in the Bayview every day of the week beginning Monday from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., according to the Mayor’s Office.

The Bayview team is the third to be deployed in San Francisco. Officials first launched a team in the Tenderloin last November, followed by a second team serving the Mission and Castro in February.

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Community Housing Partnership is a San Francisco nonprofit that provides a wide range of services to people experiencing homelessness. To CEO Rick Aubry however, its real job is stabilizing lives. CHP‘s main metric for success is the number of the residents who make a permanent break from the cycle of homelessness. By that measure, its performance is astonishingly high.

“We are pleased to report that 98% of our residence remain housed,” Aubry said. Founded in 1990, CHP on 17 properties Throughout San Francisco. Each property has 60 to 150 units for individuals and families. Many residents stay in CHP’s buildings for years, while others graduate to other housing. CHP strives to solve homelessness permanently, so there’s no requirement to move out. People can stay with CHP forever, if they wish.

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Over the past year the ceremonial groundbreaking, where politicians and developers put on shiny hard hats and celebrate the city’s latest real estate milestone by flinging ceremonial dirt with ceremonial shovels, has vanished into the COVID abyss.

But on Thursday, in a sign that the city could be starting to return to some sense of normal, Mayor London Breed and other City Hall officials gathered on a construction site just south of Market Street in masks to mark the redevelopment of a quintessential San Francisco mega-development that has something for everyone: a new union hall for Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 38, 96 units of supportive housing for the formerly homeless, a park for the neighborhood and hundreds of market rate apartments that will sprout from a patchwork of surface parking lots.

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Nearly one in every 10 of San Francisco’s permanent supportive housing units — earmarked for people experiencing homelessness — is sitting empty.

The number of vacant units has climbed 58% since September and represents 9.9% of the permanent supportive housing stock. That’s more than triple the 3% limit the city said in November 2019 that it would impose on such vacancies.

Those units play a critical role in helping homeless people move off the streets and into more stable situations. And during the pandemic, they allow the city to create more space in shelter-in-place hotels, offering even more options for shelter to residents of the city who would otherwise go without, and potentially chipping away at San Francisco’s homelessness crisis.

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San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood is slated to get more affordable supportive housing units to help alleviate the city’s homelessness crisis.

Merchants Capital just secured a construction loan from Merchants Bank of Indiana for the development of an affordable housing project at 53 Colton St. in San Francisco’s South of Market area, according to a press release. Developed by Strada Investment Group and Community Housing Partnership, Merchants Capital provided the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity bridge loan in addition to the construction loan.

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Pandemic, budget surplus offer rare ‘window of opportunity’ to quickly acquire more units

More than 50 advocacy groups on Wednesday urged city officials to use available resources to buy struggling hotels that they say could house homeless residents more quickly and cheaply than building new units.

The push comes after the Biden administration announced that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) would reimburse 100 percent of the costs associated with shelter-in-place hotels, where more than 2,000 unhoused folks moved during the pandemic. The recent federal policy change is expected to free up $83 million in city funds, which advocates for the homeless argue should be used on permanent housing solutions.

“This is just an incredible window of opportunity and we don’t want The City to blow it,” said Sara Shortt, Community Housing Partnership director of policy and community organizing, at a press conference on Wednesday. “This chance is not likely to come again, not at all. The owners want to sell, we have the money, what are we waiting for?”

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Community Housing Partnerships (CHP) and Bridge Housing Corporation broke ground last fall at Mission Bay South Block 9, also known as 410 China Basin. The 92,000 square foot, four-story structure featuring 141 modular affordable rental studios for formerly homeless individuals, along with on-site supportive services, is expected to welcome inhabitants as early as January 2022. The Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) selected the two nonprofits to develop the project in 2017.

“This was an important and desirable site to provide homes for folks in a wonderful neighborhood,” said Rick Aubry, CHP’s chief executive officer. “The City urged that there be a joint venture on it. Bridge, which is a very large nonprofit housing developer, has expertise in getting a project off the ground. CHP has expertise in providing supportive services to the building. For this project, Bridge claims the lead role in the early stages, and CHP will be taking the lead once the building is completed, in management and services at the site.”

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A 96-unit housing project for extremely low-income and homeless San Francisco residents slated to rise in the South of Market neighborhood is moving one step closer to construction with a $19.1 million funding boost from a union pension fund.

The AFL-CIO Housing InvestmentTrust said Tuesday it would help finance the development at 53 ColtonSt. as part of its $1 billion investment into Bay Area housing construction announced in September.

Demand for an already limited supply of affordable housing is expected to increase post-pandemic, and the pension fund’s investment and others like it are “going to be critical to our economic recovery,” Mayor London Breed said in a statement.��

“We all know we need to build more housing, because even while rents have dropped recently, they will begin to rise again as our economy recovers, unless we create enough new homes to keep up with demand,” Breed said.

The affordable project is being spearheaded by Strada Investment Group and the nonprofit Community Housing Partnerships and��expected to cost $52.2 million in total. The rest of the financing will be provided by the Merchants Bank of Indiana and Century Housing Corporation, a community development finance institution located in Culver City.

“While many other capital sources are backing away from putting their funds into this market, we are committed to serve as San Francisco’s financial first responder by creating union construction jobs, and financing affordable places that people are proud to call home,” said AFL-CIO Housing Investment Trust CEO Chang Suh. “We do this while always working hard to produce competitive returns for our investors.”

Suh added that the loss of construction jobs is “one of the worst economic impacts” that the pandemic is having on San Francisco.

With its $1 billion investment in Bay Area housing, the pension fund projects the creation of some 12,000 jobs — a third of which will be union jobs — and 4,000 housing units in the Bay Area by 2025.

It is unclear when the 53 Colton project will break ground — its construction is part of a 2-acre redevelopment plan to transform the area around 1629 Market St. that includes adding 580 new homes across five residential buildings, public open space and a new Union Hall for United Association Local 38 Plumbers and Pipefitters.��

Breed’s office said in a statement issued in July that 53 Colton St. and another 190-unit building on Market Street at Brady Street will be the first residential projects to be constructed under that plan.

Construction on the union hall began over the summer and is expected to complete in 2024. That project is being privately financed by Strada.��

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San Francisco has pulled back on a plan to close hotels for the homeless this month, but the news has done little to curb the uncertainty that many residents still face in 2021.

The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing originally planned to close seven hotels — where about 500 people live — by Dec. 21. But after receiving about $10 million in state assistance, the department said in a tweet and an internal email this weekend that it would extend that timeline. But it’s unclear by how much.

Sara Shortt, director of policy and community organizing at the Community Housing Partnership, said the stress among residents and staff is “palpable.”

“Until residents get direct communication notifying them that they will continue to be able to live in the hotels until they are adequately housed, I wouldn’t feel comfortable with that,” she said.

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410 China Basin Street is designed by award-winning Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects. Cahill Contractors is serving as the general contractor and FactoryOS will manufacture the modular units. The project includes:

● 141 new units of permanent supportive housing (studios with bathroom, kitchen, and storage)
● One main point of entry with 24 hour front desk clerk
● Large, secure, outdoor residential courtyard
● Housing operations office with one manager’s housing unit
● Facilities for onsite case managers, counselors, and medical services
● Tenant community lounge, kitchen, game room, bicycle storage and laundry
● Convenient access to public transit

Community Housing Partnership will own, maintain, and provide resident and clinical service programs for the 141 individuals and veterans who will reside at 410 China Basin. These programs – spanning everything from case management, onsite medical and psychiatric support services, and more – are aimed at supporting residents and promoting self-sufficiency.

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San Francisco’s housing and homelessness service providers worry that City Hall’s budget decisions will leave them unprepared to face an expected wave of housing displacement.

Interviews with staffers at a dozen nonprofits found that calls for assistance have increased by at least 30% and at some organizations by as much as 200% since March when the pandemic forced San Francisco residents to shelter in place amid a recession characterized by widespread income loss. Many providers are concerned expected city budget cuts will hobble their ability to provide vital aid like rental assistance, legal representation in eviction cases, food and emergency shelter, just when clients need help the most.

One likely outcome of expected cutbacks they predicted: a worsening of the city’s already daunting homelessness crisis.

“We’re all bracing ourselves for a huge growth in the numbers of those who are living on the streets, no question,” said Sara Shortt, director of public policy and community outreach at the Community Housing Partnership, a supportive housing nonprofit. “Most of us walk down our streets and see so many people currently in tents or otherwise. To imagine that number getting bigger without the resources to address it is really scary and sad.”

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San Francisco, CA–Mayor London N. Breed today announced that construction has begun on the Plumbers Union mixed-use project, which will transform a crucial stretch of Market Street by adding 580 new homes, including 96 supportive housing units for people experiencing homelessness, as well as a new union hall and public open space. The project is also expected to provide about 1,800 jobs, highlighting the economic benefits of housing production as the economy struggles to recover from the pandemic.

“We are proud to partner with Strada in the development of 96 permanent homeless supportive housing apartments at 53 Colton as a core part of the overall project,” said Rick Aubry, Chief Executive Officer of Community Housing Partnership. “CHP is celebrating its 30th anniversary and now, more than ever, adding new supported homes for people who have experienced homelessness is essential for the City we all love. We currently provide a home for over 1,900 residents our across the City and the new housing at Colton and other projects under development in partnership with the City will expand our capacity to address the challenge.”

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