Mission Bay Gets a New 140-Unit Building for Homeless

Mayor London Breed Celebrates Groundbreaking of New Permanent Supportive Housing in Mission Bay

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
The development will provide wraparound supportive services and stable housing for 140 adults exiting homelessness

Mayor London N. Breed today announced the groundbreaking of a new housing complex at Mission Bay Block 9 (Block 9), a Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) development in the heart of Mission Bay.

Once complete in late 2021, the building will add 140 homes to San Francisco’s PSH portfolio, as well as a community garden open to residents and members of the larger Mission Bay community.

Learn more about Mission Bay Block 9
Press Release | Website | November 2020 Presentation | Concept Photos

The development advances the City’s strategy for economic recovery, which is centered in stimulating new job creation and investing in infrastructure that ensures San Francisco’s post-COVID-19 economy emerges more equitable and resilient than before.

Pursuing the development of 140 units of new affordable housing for San Francisco’s most vulnerable residents makes progress on several recommendations made by the Economic Recovery Task Force and illustrates the City’s efforts to retain and support its residents. Block 9 is part of Mayor Breed’s Homelessness Recovery Plan, which will expand capacity in the City’s Homelessness Response System and make 6,000 placements available for people experiencing homelessness over the next two years.

What is Mission Bay Block 9?
410 China Basin, San Francisco / 92,000 square foot, 4-story building in a U-shape with wings that will wrap around a central landscaped courtyard

Supporting formerly homeless individuals, this supportive housing project is located in the heart of the Mission Bay South development along the waterfront. Project features an east-facing on-grade central courtyard as the focal points for exercise, relaxation, and group activities.

The park-like courtyard consistent of gardens, landforms, dense urban forest canopy and a continuous bio-retention garden for stormwater management. Topography creates layered gardens and walking path that are optimized to balance cut and fill on site.

A semi-public community garden connects residents to the larger community, providing a park like setting for connection and growing food. The public garden faces Bridgeview Way, a pedestrian only street that contributes to a community network of open spaces in the neighborhood.

-Learn more from TS studio – Landscape Architecture, Urban Design, and Strategic Planning Firm.

Block 9 is located within the Mission Bay South Redevelopment Project Area under the jurisdiction of the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII), the former San Francisco Redevelopment Agency. The site has been designated as an “Agency Affordable Housing Parcel” and is part of the OCII’s efforts to revitalize underutilized land.

The Mission Bay Project Area has seen many uses in its past, from warehouses and industrial facilities to the former Southern Pacific Railyard. Today it is one of San Francisco’s newest mixed-use, transit-oriented developments, and upon completion will have approximately 6,500 housing units, of which 1,900 are affordable. The Mission Bay project is anticipated to wrap up over the next five to ten years and result in the construction of more than $700 million of new infrastructure, over $8 billion in private vertical development, and the creation of more than 30,000 permanent jobs.

Next Milestones
According to Community Housing Partnership November 2020 Presentation
• January 2021 – Concrete foundation completion
• April and May 2021 – Setting modular units levels 2-4
• June 2021 – Framing completion
• July 2021 – Roofing completion
• November 2021 – Exterior skin completion
• December 2021 – Community Garden completion
• January 2022 – Final completion & lease-up commences

Block 9 is a collaborative partnership between OCII, the San Francisco Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH), BRIDGE Housing, Community Housing Partnership (CHP), and HealthRight 360. The development is employing factory-built housing unit construction in an effort to expedite the delivery of housing for formerly homeless individuals, and one of several City sponsored projects that is part of a factory-built housing pilot program.

Major financing for Block 9 was provided by a $37.2 million investment from OCII that enabled the $86.7 million project to move forward, as well as a state and federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity and a loan from the Federal Home Loan Bank Affordable Housing program. The units will be supported through a City-funded Local Operating Subsidy Program contract and homeless applicants will be referred to the development through the HSH Coordinated Entry System.