The Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing has filed plans to create a temporary shelter center at 428 11th Street in SoMa, San Francisco. The application looks to bring 60 sleeping unit cabins with supportive programming for individuals and pets. Public records show the property is owned by a San Mateo-based family trust.
The application invokes Assembly Bill 101, 2019, which mandates by-right processing for navigation centers. The state law looks to lower barriers to increase access to permanent housing, including by allowing partners, pets, and storage facilities. Plans for 428 11th Street will follow these rules, providing storage facilities alongside restrooms, showers, office space, a meeting room, a clinic, a community room, and a dining space. The site is expected to be managed by a non-profit operator, offering 24/7 onsite support services.
428 11th Street, image via Google Street View
The roughly 0.41-acre property is located along 11th Street between Bryant Street and Harrison Street, overlooked by the US 101 overpass. The site is across from the Costco big-box store, and a block away from the Mission District neighborhood. Previously, the site had been known as the SoMa StrEat Food Park from 2012 through 2024. Before that, the site was a U-Haul parking lot.
The estimated cost for the temporary center or timeline for set-up has yet to be shared. According to the application, “the project would be funded and delivered by private philanthropy and the general contractor would be G&G Builders.”
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I’m a neighbor and I don’t mind this land being used for temporary shelter, as long as we get more support for the surrounding area; NO more RV parking on Potrero Av, and no more sidewalk encampments nearby. If the shelter is well-managed and the streets remain safe and tidy, I’m supportive.
Ask yourself, do you really think SFDPH and SFPD will enforce removal of the encampments by moving these people here? If the city is going to allow homeless encampments, as a resident of Julian Ave and 15th, I say they camp under that freeway instead of in residential areas. But I think we don’t owe the drug tourists anything, they are destroying everywhere they use and camp out. SF must demand that we are not responsible for the countries drug addivts who refuse to get help and be a functioning member of society. Defund the NGOs and use the money for land and shelter outside the city.
Knowing SF, the unit cost for the cabins will be north of $500k each
I second Andrew’s comment above. I couldn’t walk on 13th St / Duboce the other day; too many encampments and things encroaching in the right of way. I support this project as long as the right of way is kept as it is named: having a right to the way.
What happened to all the cars on the highway? Raptured up?
I was wondering the same thing 🧐.
have you never seen satellite view on Google Maps? The cars are always edited away
Good luck with hoping for better street conditions. These are the “tiny homes” that are being moved out of the 16th and Mission St lot behind the former Walgreens. The Dept of Homelessness “promised the neighbors” that this settlement would improve the neighborhood. You can see how that has worked out.
It is not necessarily the Department of Homeless’s fault. There are a lot of people that don’t realize this might be there last chance at ever to getting housing, or they go into a community and just ruin it.
Best example is bringing in critters and bugs. I’ve had that happen and it was not fun to start itching and you see roaches coming in and out of the room.
The lot at Capp between 15th and 16th is being dismantled to make way for a supportive housing development. The story in the Chronicle suggests that the neighbors actually appreciated the full time security that the tiny home village provided. The unsheltered clients’ only complaints were that the providers were too stringent in not letting them bring in drugs, alcohol, or even food. The neighbors do indeed say it improved their block, and they are now worried about the future with it, and the extra security gone!
The Chronicle story was quite one sided. Many of the neighbors fought the “tiny homes” and were overridden by Hillary Ronen, who initially said that she wouldn’t force it without neighborhood cooperation. In the end, she and Emily Cohen of Homeless Services proceeded anyway. It was a done deal from the beginning.
The conditions in the Mission have deteriorated sharply over the past few years. All anyone needs to do is to walk by the BART station to observe the drug sales and use and the stolen-goods market. The Gubbio Project is reportedly running a “safe” consumption site. Every day the Mission sees overdoses. The mayor has cleaned up Union Square and moved the drug users into the Mission.
Adding another 400-plus apartments without conditions of sobriety or good behavior will make neighborhood conditions worse. These apartments will cost over $1 million per door. Look at what happened to the hotels used for homeless housing during the pandemic — that is a good predictor of how this new housing will fare. And SF taxpayers will be on the hook for repairs, in perpetuity.
And that’s not even considering what the lack of parking will do to the neighborhood.
Nothing will change 16th Street will remain the same and 15th St. and when they close down the shelter next to the school a kindergarten school mind you the supervisors didn’t even care when they first moved in. They don’t care for these kids that prove that now when they’re moving it to the summer district they can’t and won’t force the rest of these drug users, homeless into those wooden homes and even if they did, they’ll just leave and come out during the day and tear the city up anyway so regardless, these people do not want a better their lives get treatment they just wanna destroy everything they touch Including their own lives and every San Francisco resident has to suffer for it. We need to send them back to their state or city where they came from and only help those from San Francisco and if they refuse to help we locked them up and if they keep doing what they’re doing, we lock them up we gotta be tough Show tough love if we wanna save their lives.
Why do these shelters always have to be in SoMa?
Citywide problems need citywide solutions.