Wednesday was busy for San Francisco’s senior housing non-profit Self-Help for the Elderly. In the evening, SHE had scheduled their first community outreach regarding over two hundred affordable senior homes proposed along Ocean Beach in the Sunset. During the day, Mayor London Breed announced the acquisition of 933 Clement Street in the Richmond District for SHE to convert into affordable senior housing and a community dining space.
The City of San Francisco has acquired the former dim sum restaurant building at 933 Clement Street for $6.2 million. The financing came via a $4.1 million loan from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development and $2.1 million from the State of California. Once open, SHE will receive $400,000 annually from the Department of Disability and Aging Services to assist with community services.
The State funding was secured in part by Assembly Budget Chair Phil Ting. Speaking on the plans, Assemblymember Ting explained that “sites like this are vital to ensuring our older adults can age in place in their communities and receive the care they need in a culturally meaningful way.” The facility will open in the Inner Richmond neighborhood, home to one of the highest percentages of AAPI seniors in San Francisco. A new 24-hour care and supervision facility will help fill what the city describes as the neighborhood’s lack of affordable, culturally competent elder care facilities.
Once complete, 933 Clement Street will include living space for 15 low-income seniors on the second floor. The ground level will include a dining space with a capacity of 75 people. SHE will provide lunches and host activities in this space throughout the week.
In a press release from the Mayor’s office, Mayor London Breed shared, “thanks to Anni Chung and her entire team at Self Help for the Elderly, we are able to provide not only more housing, but the critical services our seniors deserve.”
Anni Chung, President and CEO of Self-Help for the Elderly, is quoted in the same press release as saying, “We are truly grateful for the acquisition grant from the city to fund our 933 Clement Street RCFE project. These smaller-size RCFEs provide safe havens for seniors to age in place, but the rapid decline of these homes causes major concerns among our elected officials and providers of eldercare services.”
933 Clement Street, rendering by AEM
City records show the 1982-built property last sold in 2017 for $2.6 million. Plans had been filed by Han Gao & Han Zheng in 2019 to remodel and expand the structure to create six homes and new retail space across three floors. Designs by AEM show a familiar contemporary infill adorned with boxy bay windows and stucco.
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Terrible. And I hope they don’t include that horrid palm tree either. Plant native trees, the building should at least be double that height.
Terrible. And I hope they don’t include that horrid palm tree either. Plant native trees, the building should at least be double that height.
The original building’s second floor facade is pretty cool. Wish they would keep that color scheme and the Chinese word signs.
the chinese word signs literally saying “tang palace restaurant” – probably not the best to keep on a housing facade…
A Phil Ting, don’t know twas the same person, hope not, decades ago was a SF Chronicle paperouteboss who was gypping my son out of his meager pay
Sorry to say this but anything the city gets involved with will most likely end up being screwed up cost overruns, red tape and bureaucracy!