Small Sites Program (SSP)
Information for MOHCD partners
The Small Sites Program (SSP) helps San Franciscans avoid displacement or eviction.
Small rent-controlled properties are often vulnerable to market pressure. What results are rising tenant rents, increased evictions, and property sales.
SSP protects tenants living in these properties, by removing them from the speculative market. The properties are then converted to permanently affordable housing.
SSP results in:
- More permanently affordable housing (no longer rent-controlled)
- Stabilized housing for current tenants
- Improved physical condition of these buildings
- Financial sustainability
Buildings are eligible for SSP if:
- Two-thirds of existing tenants have maximum incomes at 80% Area Median Income (AMI)
- Building is between 5-25 units
- Requires no major renovation (light to moderate renovation only)
- Existing tenants meet per-unit subsidy limits in the program guidelines
What the Small Sites Program means for...
Existing tenants
- SSP helps you stay in your current apartment.
- If your building is accepted for SSP:
- Your apartment may receive some renovation.
- Any new tenants to the building must meet MOHCD eligibility requirements, and go through a lottery process.
Read more and nominate your building
Community sponsors
- MOHCD works with sponsors to finance acquisition and renovation.
- These organizations help tenants find out if their building is eligible.
- The organization then owns and operates SSP buildings
SSP Community Partners
Contact the following community partners for more information about SSP, or to nominate your building
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Chinatown Community Development Center
Preston Lam
plam@chinatowncdc.orgWhitney Jones
Director of Housing Development
wjones@chinatowncdc.org(415) 984-1450
http://www.chinatowncdc.org/ -
Council of Community Housing Organizations
(For information only)ccho@sfic-409.org
(415) 882-0901
http://www.sfccho.org/
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Mission Economic Development Agency
Johnny Oliver
Associate Director of Community Real Estate
joliver@medsf.orgKaroleen Feng
Director of Community Real Estate
kfeng@medasf.org(415) 282-3334 x114
MEDASF.ORG -
People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights (PoderSF)
(For information only)Antonio Diaz
Organizational Director
adiaz@podersf.org(415) 431-4210
http://www.podersf.org/
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San Francisco Community Land Trust
Tyler Macmillan
Organizational Director
tmacmillan@sfclt.org(415) 399-1490
http://www.sfclt.org/ -
San Francisco Housing Development Corporation
Deven Richardson
Director of Real Estate Development
deven@sfhdc.org(415) 822-1022
http://www.sfhdc.org/ -
Mission Housing Development Corporation
Gail McGuire
Project Developer
gmcguire@missionhousing.org(415) 864-6432 x 303
https://missionhousing.org/
About the Small Sites Program
Launched by MOHCD in 2014, the Small Sites Program is an acquisition and rehabilitation loan program for small multifamily rental buildings.
The program was created to protect and establish long-term affordable housing throughout San Francisco. In the face of increasing pressure on tenants, the City developed SSP to support non-profit and for-profit entities in successfully removing these sites from the market and restricting them as permanently affordable housing.
SSP is funded through multiple sources, including voter-approved bonds, inclusionary housing fees, and the City’s Housing Trust Fund.
Program Statistics as of May 2018:
- 25 buildings and 160 units acquired
- 327 people served, with an average AMI of 65%
- Neighborhoods:
- Mission
- Downtown/Civic Center
- SoMa
- Castro/Upper Market
- Haight Ashbury
- Bernal Heights
- Richmond