Axis Development abruptly abandons proposed 117-unit Folsom Street project
A potential 117-unit residential project at 2675 Folsom Street will not be moving forward in its...
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After a decade, a fully affordable housing development breaks ground in SF’s Mission
A 100-percent affordable, 94-unit housing project for seniors at 1296 Shotwell St. ceremonially...
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SF Real estate powers pounce on Measure C
One assumes that the city’s real estate powers — Blackstone, Shorenstein and roughly 50...
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Fully affordable housing fails to rise in SF’s Mission, and no one knows why
District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen received no clear answers at a hearing she called Monday to...
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Amid housing crisis, SF builds fewer units last year than in 2016
As the mayoral race heats up, the city got some sobering news: despite all the talk about the need...
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SF nonprofit reveals its plans for derelict building at 18th and Mission
The Mission Economic Development Agency is proposing an eight-and-half-story mixed-use building at...
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SF’s SRO tenants anxious for better housing, will wait years
Residents of the Mission’s SROs are often dismissed by the neighborhood as a nuisance, and many...
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SF Mission nonprofit nabs corner building for $7.75 million
The Mission Economic Development Agency — or MEDA, as most know it — has purchased a...
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SF teacher says she was tricked into ‘I Am Not a Monster’ BART campaign
When Nancy Ana Lucero discovered that her picture appeared in an “I Am Not a Monster” ad at the...
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Meet the woman turning a nonprofit into a developer of affordable housing
In her four years working in the real estate arm of the Mission Economic Development Agency,...
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Developments in Development: More and less
Developments in Development is a “weekly” column recapping real estate, housing, planning, zoning...
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Ronen wants answers on mental health beds and 16th Street BART station
Mission Local checked in this week with Hillary Ronen about her first year on the job as District...
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Nonprofit buys decaying building at 18th and Mission streets
A derelict building at 18th and Mission streets owned by a former Facebook executive that has been...
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SF Mission YIMBY movement wants to speed up affordable housing
Steven Buss is a self-described “gentrifier,” and he’s on a mission to soothe his conscience....
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Where are those affordable housing buildings planned for the Mission?
It’s been nearly a decade since the last large-scale, entirely affordable building was completed...
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Nonprofit launches program to help artists find affordable housing
Disclosure: Mission Local rents its office space from MEDA. While affordable studio space has long...
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