Updated permits have been filed for the affordable senior housing redevelopment at 1234 Great Highway in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco. The application shows the project team will pursue financing through the Federal Faircloth-to-RAD process. Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation and Self-Help For The Elderly will be joint developers.
Plans for the site started in October 2023 when TNDC acquired the property, with funding and pre-development costs provided by the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. The developers filed the general plan referral in November of last year. This February, the city’s Planning Department approved the application, finding that the proposal “is in conformity with the General Plan,” as per city documents. The team is now aiming to start construction in 2026, with move-ins as early as 2028.
1234 Great Highway, image by Google Street View
The property is one of five that the MOHCD acquired in the summer of 2023 through the Site Acquisition and Predevelopment Financing NOFA. The five projects are expected to create over five hundred affordable housing across five different neighborhoods at 249 Pennsylvania Avenue, 250 Laguna Honda Boulevard, 3300 Mission Street, and 650 Divisadero Street. As of the time of publication, construction has started on the Mission Street project, new details have been revealed for the Pennsylvania and Divisadero Street projects, and nothing has been filed yet for the Laguna Honda property.
Demolition will be required for the existing tourist hotel. The project will create a seven-story building with 216 apartments for seniors. The affordability of all units will vary to attract a diversity of households. Around half of the units will serve formerly unhoused seniors with funding from the city’s Local Operating Subsidy Program, two-fifths will be for extremely low-income senior residents directly financed by the city’s Senior Operating Subsidy, and the remaining residents will serve seniors earning 50-60% of the area’s median income.
TNDC has yet to reply to a request for comment.
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I certainly hope this gets built, but what’s left out of the above post is that the Faircloth-to-RAD process depends upon cooperation from The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD. The administration taking office next month has promised to punish cities, like San Francisco, that do not cooperate with enforcement of federal immigration laws by withholding other federal funding, and thus this project will be an easy target to torpedo if the incoming administration wants to, and the soon-to-be 47th President of the United States has promised to do exactly that.
Crazy. I just tried to stay at that hotel (nobody was keeping it up and it was so awful we went elsewhere despite being charged). I’m glad it may get converted as it’s not currently a functional hotel as it stands.
Great that more housing for elder and other unhoused people. Will secure parking for bicycles, many may be trikes, so that the people living there will be able to easily access the Great Highway and GGP?