In a significant move for San Francisco’s Fillmore District, Governor Gavin Newsom has announced the groundbreaking of two new affordable housing communities, earmarked to aid low- to extremely-low-income residents. The initiative, which fulfills a part of Newsom’s 2019 executive order aimed at boosting affordable housing stock in the state, involves transforming a couple of once state-owned parking lots into homes, as per the Governor Gavin Newsom’s office.
The new developments are expected to generate 167 homes. “These projects are the latest testament to the innovative work happening across the state to make housing more affordable,” Newsom stated, believing the residences will provide shelter and stimulate opportunities for upliftment. By engaging the California Department of General Services (DGS) and the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD), the Excess Sites program systematically identifies and lists state-owned lands suitable for housing developments.
Tomiquia Moss, the Secretary of the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, described converting these underutilized state properties into community assets as a boon for current and future Californians. Echoing Moss, Nick Maduros, Secretary of the Government Operations Agency, touted the initiative’s benefit to valued members of the educational fraternity by reducing housing burdens, per his reported comments on the government’s release…