Our Approach
To ensure that our mission and vision is fully realized and sustained, SFHDC has designed programs and services to help stabalized distressed, minority communities and to further community economic development throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Our approach includes the development of affordable homes, housing and financial counseling, supportive services, and community economic development activities.
Our Core Programs and Services
Homeownership and Financial Counseling
SFHDC is a HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development) certified counseling agency that offers free financial and housing counseling services to ensure that families are able to qualify for a mortgage loan, and purchase a new home in the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. We are confident about our approach to homeownership, and have the resources and information to ensure personal success. (Click here for success stories)
The first step to homeownership is to attend an SFHDC homebuyer’s educational workshop. During this seminar knowledge can be acquired about the entire home buying process and affordable housing opportunities. Upon completion of the workshop, SFHDC will pair prospective homeowners with a professional housing counselor who will assist each client independently and confidentially to customize a personal action plan. We will help clients pre-qualify for a loan and secure between $150,000 and $200,000 in down-payment assistance, which will make monthly mortgage payments affordable for prospective homebuyers. [ Click here to find out when the next workshop is scheduled or learn about down-payment and grant opportunities.]
Real Estate Development
Since 1995, SFHDC’s project management team has successfully developed hundreds of affordable homes valued at millions of dollars to help build distressed, minority communities in San Francisco. We exclusively build homes for low and moderate-income families and individuals, seniors, and others with physical and mental disabilities. Our goal is to transform economically distressed communities into thriving and self-sustaining neighborhoods throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area. Our target neighborhoods are Bayview Hunters Point, Western Addition, and Visitation Valley.
Community Economic Development
SFHDC’s takes a customized grassroots approach to achieving community revitalization. We offer a variety programs and services to help stabalize distressed communities, and provide low and moderate income families with assets and wealth building opportunities. In addition, our organization collaborates with other community groups, city and state government, and other developers that share our mission to revitalize underserved, minority neighborhoods in San Francisco. We believe that with our combination of programs and services, SFHDC will succeed at strengthening underserved communities and ensuring a better quality of life for the people we serve.
Supportive Services
On a daily basis, the thirty families living at SFHDC’s Bayview Commons Apartments have access to supportive and case-management services. These services are non-mandatory, confidential and are designed to meet the distinct needs of each resident. Families living at Bayview Commons are typically physically or mentally disabled, were formerly homeless, or suffer from HIV or AIDS. All of our programs, whether held on- or off-site, promote self-sufficiency and a healthy standard of living..
Our supportive services program include the following:
- Tutoring 5 days a week for 3 hours a day for school age children
- In-house computer access
- Physical Activities
- Summer Field Trips and Sporting Events
- Food Bank and Free Lunch Program
- Referral Drug Treatment, HIV and Other Rehabilitation Programs
- Family and Individual Case Management Servicess
- Financial Literacy Program
