Our Approach
To ensure that our mission and vision is fully realized and sustained, SFHDC has designed programs and services to ensure 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’s certified and trained housing counselors make owning a home a realistic option for prospective homebuyers no matter what the circumstances may be. 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 your family is able to qualify for a 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 these seminars knowledge can be acquired about the entire home buying process and some 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 in San Francisco. These homes were exclusively made available to low and moderate-income families and individuals, but also created to provide housing for seniors and families with physical and mental disabilities. Our goal is to build affordable and mixed use housing developments in low-income and ethnically diverse communities to help transform these communities into vital, 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 programs and services are a customized grassroots approach to achieving community revitalization. We offer a variety of supportive services to mentally and physically disabled families, housing counseling to low and moderate income families and individuals, foreclosure prevention counseling, financial education, and affordable housing development to ensure equal economic opportunities for Bay Area residents. In addition, we collaborate with other community organizations, city government and for-profit developers that have a similar mission to revitalize underserved neighborhoods in San Francisco. SFHDC targets neighborhoods that are heavily populated with minorities and low to moderate income residents. We believe that with our combination of programs and services SFHDC will succeed in its mission to in strengthen underserved communities and ensure a better quality of life for the people living within these neighborhoods.
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
