A new 100% affordable housing project is now available for occupancy at 180 Jones Street in Tenderloin, San Francisco. The project proposal included the development of a new nine-story affordable housing complex. The City and Mayor London Breed celebrated the inauguration, and were joined by representatives from the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD).
Cahill Contractors is the contractor. Van Meter Williams Pollack LLP is responsible for the designs. TNDC is providing in-house property management and social services. Local firms Waypoint Consulting, California Housing Partnership, and Gubb & Barshay are also enlisted on the project.
180 Jones Street Interiors via TNDC
The project is built on a formerly vacant corner lot spanning an area of 4,771 square feet. The scope of work included the construction of a nine-story, 38,500 square foot building offering 70 new permanently affordable homes for low-income residents. The housing project also includes 35 subsidized units for previously unhoused adults.
Onsite amenities include a ground-floor community room, property management with 24-hour desk clerk, on-site social workers, bike parking, free fiber internet courtesy of the City’s Fiber to Housing program, and a second-story landscaped courtyard open to the street. 180 Jones Street achieved LEED Gold Certification, one of the highest certifications for sustainable construction. The building is powered by 100% renewable energy through CleanPowerSF.
180 Jones Street is one of several affordable housing developments in San Francisco’s Tenderloin completed and/or renovated since 2018, totaling 1,267 units across all affordable housing projects. An additional 143 units are currently undergoing renovation. A press release from sf.gov states, “the Mayor’s Housing for All strategy fundamentally changes how the City approves and builds housing by laying out an action plan to meet the bold goal of allowing for 82,000 new homes to be built as part of the State-mandated Housing Element.”
180 Jones Street via Van Meter Williams Pollack
The project received funding from the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD). The project received a Multifamily Housing Program (MHP) award and California Housing Accelerator Tier 1 funds, made available through the Coronavirus State Fiscal Recovery Fund (CSFRF) established by the federal American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA). The project was awarded $23.8 million in Accelerator funds in February of 2022, making it the second California Housing Accelerator Fund deal to close in San Francisco.
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Great news. Every time a modern building like this opens up in the Tenderloin, the neighborhood improves ever so slightly. Do it 50 more times, and you’ve got yourself a completely re-imagined TL. The Tenderloin in the year 2124 is going to be lit!
I cant wait for SF to have more “tower” projects just like in the hood in NY