SFHA - Hope VI Transformation

HOPE VI Informational Links Overview of HOPE VI Capital Improvement Program Rehabilitating Our Housing Capital Fund Program Development Programs Revitalization Program SFHA Hope VI Transformation Problems Facing HOPE VI Mixed Finance Structures Plans for Increasing Availability Accessibility

• Transformation. SFHA's new development programs are changing the way the City of San Francisco looks at public housing, gearing the industry towards affordable housing.
   
• The way public housing looks. The public housing industry has learned at great cost that design matters.
   
• The relationship between public housing and the community. Public housing has too often been treated as a noxious land use, segregated and buffered in an attempt to keep it from "contaminating" healthy neighborhoods. SFHA is changing this concept.
   
• The nature of public housing's "unwritten" contract with residents. SFHA is setting high expectations for residents, insisting that they take concrete steps toward self-sufficiency.
   
• The role of the private and nonprofit sectors in public housing. SFHA provides a model of public housing's future-a dynamic system fueled by both public and private financing and management, and energized by partnerships embracing every segment of the community.
   
• The capacity of public housing to leverage private investment. The SFHA mixed-finance development process provides a vision of public housing's future.
   
• The public housing agency perception. Faced with the need to compete in the private real estate market while protecting the public interest, SFHA is rapidly adopting new and improved industry standards in operations and management, upgrading their staff, and above all, learning to lead complex, comprehensive redevelopment partnerships.
   
• The scale of public housing revitalization. The economic development generated by the SFHA's model has been able to transform sources of community blight into engines of community renewal. One of SFHA's main goals is to replicate this form across the city's public housing sites.

Overview of HOPE VI - Capital Improvement Program - Rehabilitating Our Housing - Capital Fund Program
Development Programs - Revitalization Program - SFHA Hope VI Transformation - Problems Facing HOPE VI
Mixed Finance Structures - Plans for Increasing Availability - Accessibility
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