Plans have been approved for a ten-story apartment complex at 650 Divisadero Street in San Francisco. The proposal will add over a hundred units of affordable housing to a corner lot along Grove Street, a block away from Alamo Square and just a few blocks from the Golden Gate Park Panhandle. The Young Community Developer and Jonathan Rose Companies are jointly sponsoring the project in partnership with MOHCD.
650 Divisadero Street ground-level floor plan, illustration by Mithun
Plans for the site have not changed since the May filing. The 98-foot-tall structure is expected to produce 107 apartments across 105,900 square feet, with parking for 72 bicycles. Unit types will vary with 27 studios, 26 one-bedrooms, 27 two-bedrooms, and 27 three-bedrooms. 100% affordable housing. Residential amenities will be included on the first and second floors, including on-site property management and residential services space.
Mithun is the principal architect for the project in collaboration with Associate Architect, Saida + Sullivan Design Partners. Renderings have yet to be shared.
The 0.29-acre property is located at the corner of Divisadero Street and Grove Street, a block away from Alamo Square. The eastern tip of the Panhandle Park is just a few blocks away.
650 Divisadero Street, image by Google Satellite
The application has successfully utilized Senate Bill 330 to streamline the approval process and Assembly Bill 2011 to allow housing on a parcel zoned for commercial use. City records show the property last sold in January 2024 for $12.25 million.
Financing documents published by the city show that the project is expected to cost around $101 million to develop, not including the acquisition cost. MOHCD has committed $12.775 million for acquisition, $2.225 million for predevelopment costs, and $15 million in existing funds. The city also requested $6.25 million from the Housing Trust Fund for the project sponsors. Construction is expected to start in late 2026, with units ready in 2028.
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Between 400 Divis, 1377 Fell (DMV) and this site, looks like Divis will be getting about 675 new units of housing completed by around 2030. I am biased, but I am very bullish on the area. Central, tons of parks, freeway access, a sizable commercial corridor, outside of the downtown core radius (limits homeless people) and no subway station (limits homeless people). There are a ton of underutilized lots on the corridor that could be transitioned to housing. I think Divis/Nopa real estate has a ~10% value bump in it once it fills in and reaches its potential.
There are 0 homeless people in lower haight, and there’s a subway stop (N) at Noe/Duboce.
Buses attract more homeless people than the subways in this city.
I would equate an above ground trolley stop to be the equivalent of a bus stop, not a subway stop. And you’re right, Lower Haight is up a hill from both downtown and Upper Market and stays relatively clear.
The muni undergrounds all stop in Downtown too. for whatever reason, the buses along Haight/Divis & the rest of the city have x5 the homeless people than the subways do. Someone needs to do a study on that and why.
Celebrating the lack of reliable mass transit to handle the new residents of these proposed multi-unit buildings. Sigh. So short-sighted and so very American.
I agree, it is a little sad, but it’s true. Of course my preference would be for a clean subway stop but I’m not confident it will happen. Luckily the area is well served by numerous bus lines like the 5-Fulton, 6-Haight and 24-Divis.
There is no more 6 on Haight
I generally agree that mass transit makes it easy for ‘pan-handlers’ etc to abuse certain areas in the city, but it’s way more plausible that it’s to do with the location of services and SROs (and Divis, Lower Haight, etc have few if any concentration of these).
When can we get some action on the burned-out building at Diviz and Haight? It’s a terrible eyesore and graffiti magnet. I’ve seen nothing in the press about developing that corner.
Love to see this housing. Would also love to have something written in their future tenant agreements that they’re not allowed to complain about “noise” from shows next door at the Indy.
$1 milllion plus per unit!
In 2023, the as-built average cost to build a recent affordable housing unit in San Francisco was $1.2 million. So this project will be a breakthrough, if completed for 17 percent less (nominal).
How close is the nearest library, Post Office, UPS Store, Walgreens and Safeway? Bus lines?
You could open Google maps, type in the address, and find out…
But that requires effort… Siri, what’s a good word for privileged and lazy?
Great to see this! I wish we also had more market rate being built too though. There really should be a subway on Divisadero, Masonic, and Van Ness. And is there any retail?
Agree on market rate; area is surrounded by major subsidized housing complexes. Dense mixed income needed for large scale sites. Mistake to remake Fillmore Safeway into all-subsidized which supervisor is calling for..
Good to see a more balanced mix of unit sizes than usual.
107 units and no parking? I guess those units are for 30 something and not for seniors.Also the neighbors are going to love that there will be even less available parking spaces in the neighborhood as well as the restaurant owners.This is silly.
Seniors made this city inaccessible with their poor policies. Why does everything have to be frozen in time by them, for them?
And really, they should be walking and taking transit instead of being forced to drive with their poor eyesight and declining motor skills.
What a nasty, ageist comment.
A considerable fraction of CA’s 180,000 homeless population has Proposition 13 to thank for their housing accessibility and lack thereof.
San Francisco’s inability to up-zone and have the largest neighborhood (Sunset), almost entirely single-family, is not a product of today’s emerging workforce.
Those who made CA exclusive for the haves and explicitly inaccessible for the have-nots deserve to be shamed. That generation should almost all be in their retirement years, and I am sure they sleep soundly in their generational wealth. Until the Bay Area develops into a cohesive city, community meetings for projects aren’t packed with grey-haired NIMBYs, and politicians who try to rectify past wrongs aren’t met with election recall lawsuits, I will find my peace.
Not a single person I went to college with feels a 5-story structure along a tarsnit corridor is radical. Yet people lose their sh*t the second a burned-out building in resource-heavy Washington Square attempts to add one floor up. Y’all are conservative with your money, but think economics work like magic.
At least I don’t have to take mood elevating prescription drugs to get through the day
I’ve never taken drugs for my mood. Rarely take Advil when necessary. These same retirees are the ones who got rich off the broken society they created. But also the ones that made domestic violence a sport. Data covering divorce is readily available. The reasoning for such trends is easy to find.
Not quite the burn you think it is.
Seniors and lower income people are disproportionately less likely to own cars and more likely to walk, bike, or take transit. Having a high ratio of parking massively increases the cost of construction, leading to higher rents, fewer units, or both — even in the case of subsidized housing.
Please i need a low income housing asap.