Housing & Community Development Tours
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housing & community development tours
Explore how the industry’s strategies and successes are being implemented in and around San Francisco. Gain new perspectives and ideas to implement in your community.
MONDAY, JULY 30 | 10:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M.
San Francisco: Neighborhood by Neighborhood—49 Square Miles of HistorySan Francisco is in the midst of a renaissance as it revitalizes its existing low income housing developments, and creates exciting new affordable housing opportunities throughout all of its 88 neighborhoods. Experience a glimpse of the historic accomplishments and ongoing efforts to serve the needs of families, seniors, veterans and the disabled in the City by the Bay. Highlights include the recently-selected Choice Neighborhoods site at the Alice Griffith public housing project; Hunter’s View, a major “HOPE SF” development under construction; 77 Otis, providing project-based VASH vouchers for veterans; a drive through Golden Gate Park to Hayes Valley, an early HOPE VI project; and a visit to Valencia Gardens, another HOPE VI site, where we will get off the bus and tour the development.
MONDAY, JULY 30 | 2:45 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.
Walking Tour of Yerba Buena GardensYerba Buena Gardens is a 22-acre area within an 83-acre redevelopment project. After incredible, but familiar bitterly fought challenges, San Francisco ended up with a beloved place that has been renewed over the years. The conference hotel is located in the heart of this new neighborhood where revitalization work that has gone on since 1966 now provides a place
of gardens and public uses, public art, residential units, and revenue-producing commercial projects, all anchored with outstanding cultural uses such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. This 2.5 hour walking tour will highlight how this
20-year old mixed-use development, with unique self-funding mechanisms, continues to evolve and thrive using unusual developer partnerships and programs you’ve all work with. Learn about the models formed to create unique public/private investment that resulted in a socially and economically successful collaboration. Wear comfy shoes and be prepared to see the nooks and crannies of this award-winning revitalized neighborhood.
