Mayor Daniel Lurie today will award $29.5 million in funding to create 125 beds within 59 units reserved for individuals and families escaping domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking.
The $29.5 million in funding came from Proposition A, a ballot measure voters approved in March 2024 to build more affordable housing in San Francisco using $300 million in bonds.
Construction is anticipated to start in spring 2026 and end by late 2027, according to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. The 125 beds will be split between two projects, one in the Mission District at 80 Julian Ave., and the other in Hayes Valley at 101 Gough St.
The two projects were selected out of four proposals submitted to the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development between June 17 and July 17, 2025, in response to a request for information looking for “innovative, cost effective proposals to deliver safe, stable housing for low-income San Franciscans, including survivors of domestic violence.”
The 101 Gough St. project was proposed by San Francisco Safehouse, a nonprofit organization providing transitional housing and support services for women who are experiencing homelessness.
It will convert a four-story residential care facility into a transitional housing project, offering 23 private units with a total of 53 beds, according to the Mayor’s Office. Each unit will have individual bathrooms and cooking amenities.
101 Gough formerly housed the Joe Healy Detox Program, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation facility operated by the Positive Resource Center, a nonprofit in San Francisco. The organization merged with Baker Places Inc. in 2016.
The 80 Julian Ave. project will be part of a new six-story building operated by the Friendship House Association of American Indians. The site, known as The Village SF, will be located in the American Indian Cultural District near 15th Street.
The Village will also provide on-site services oriented toward “meeting the diverse needs of San Francisco’s urban Indian community,” including case management, behavioral health services, substance use recovery support, cultural healing practices and career support programs.
Plans for the Village show multiple units serving a variety of populations. The new grant announced by the mayor’s office will fund 36 units with private bathrooms and cooking facilities, for a total of 72 beds. The Planning Commission unanimously approved The Village in January 2023.
“I am thrilled that two well-respected organizations with a long track record of serving San Franciscan’s most vulnerable, including the Mission’s Native-led Friendship House, are the recipients of voter approved Prop A funding,” said District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission District, in a statement.
“This funding will provide sorely needed trauma-informed housing and programming for survivors and communities of color that is long overdue.”
“Our budget protected critical funding for domestic violence survivors and invested in addressing the homelessness crisis,” Lurie added, in a statement. “This funding builds on those investments to help provide much-needed stability and housing for those who need it most.”
What happened to spreading out these housing opportunities to other areas of the city?
YIMBY SF doesn’t care a whit about low-income housing. That’s what.
Anything that helps the women and their children get through an often nightmarish time is a very good thing. To have a place where they can feel safe makes a big difference. Casas de Las Madres does good in this area too.
We’ll take housing for those surviving gender based violence, thanks.
The fact that the D9 technician for funding the nonprofit class fetishizes these people as “the most vulnerable” only objectifies survivors into props to drive business to nonprofits.
My bet is that these people, like most human beings, take pride in perseverance and overcoming their bad situation than in wallowing in the vulnerable victimhood of it all.
The compulsion for the nonprofit class to infantilize and objectify people is the problem here.
“It will convert a four-story residential care facility into a transitional housing project, offering 23 private units with a total of 53 beds, according to the Mayor’s Office. Each unit will have individual bathrooms and cooking amenities.”
So they took 53 beds away from Residential drug rehab and changed to this use?
Seems to me all he is adding is 72 beds, or 30 some new units of housing and leaving a lack of drug Residential beds that are desperately needed!
Hmmm, which do I choose, Mother with children or drug addict/drunk?
I choose the Mom.
Not cool, why does the Mission & mid-market get all the crap? Move it elsewhere.
Lurie has had a chance to clean up 16/Mission, it’s not cleaned up and we don’t want more ‘affordable’ units in the Mission. Mission residents want this area cleaned up, more low income folks is the wrong direction.
The mission is full of low income folks so your preference for yuppies is duly noted, but also duly ignored. People aren’t going away just because you don’t like to look down your pointed chin at them.