Folsom Dore San Francisco
Citizens Housing Corporation worked with the City of San Francisco to build 98 units of affordable housing for low- and very-low-income residents with a variety of special needs. For a $26,000,000 project cost, the development includes 3,200 square feet of community space that houses on-site supportive services for residents.
Project funding included:
- state housing funds through the Multi-Family Housing Program (MHP)
- 4% tax credits
- tax-exempt bonds credit-enhanced by Citibank
- Affordable Housing Program (AHP) funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank
- local gap financing provided by HOME funds from the Mayor's Office of Housing in San Francisco.
The MHP funds provide the deeper levels of affordability necessary to make the units available to special-needs residents, including developmentally disabled adults and formerly homeless families.
The project site is in a mixed-use neighborhood in San Francisco's South of Market area, which is home to a variety of small businesses. Citizens Housing worked closely with neighboring businesses and the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce to develop a parking plan and construction-staging schedule that would accommodate the project's needs with minimal impact on area businesses.
As an Urban Infill project, Folsom Dore offers:
- on-site construction-waste management
- multiple public-transit options within ? mile of the site
- 70% parking reduction
- bike storage for 15% of the units
- high-density development (98 units on 0.58 acres=168 units/acre)
- provision for storage and collection of on-site recyclables
- provision of on-site service space, including computer training center
The development incorporates several unique design features, including an entry garden court and green staircase, which provide a transitional space to mitigate between the urban exterior and the dwellings. Part of a demolished brick warehouse structure was recycled into a storefront along the main frontage to showcase the community meeting room, and to collage part of the history of this space into a new design. The dense urban-infill development includes sustainable-building features and practices such as significant parking reductions, an on-site car-sharing pod, a photovoltaic system, an efficient combined water and space heating system that exceeds Title 24 standards by 20%, natural ventilation, and environmentally friendly building materials. Folsom/Dore is the first building in Northern California to receive LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
ARCHITECT
David Baker + Associates
GENERAL CONTRACTOR
Cahill Contractors, Inc
excerpted from: http://www.citizenshousing.org/
http://www.aia.org/SiteObjects/files/folsom_dore.pdf
photos courtesy of David Baker + Partners, Architects
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