The Mission District is set to welcome Casa Adelante, a new 168-unit affordable housing project, marking the largest 100%-affordable development in 20 years. The groundbreaking ceremony reflects a shift from a decade of controversy over market-rate developments amidst rising housing costs and gentrification. Co-developed by the Mission Economic Development Agency and Chinatown Community Development Center, this project complements existing affordable units, contributing to over 777 affordable housing units built in recent years. City leaders and cultural rituals highlighted the significance of this development amidst prior struggles over housing equity.
A groundbreaking ceremony took place Thursday at 1515 South Van Ness Avenue, which is being developed as Casa Adelante, an all-affordable, 168-unit residential project.
As the Chronicle reports, so much affordable housing has been built in the Mission in the last few years, the rituals of these groundbreakings have become almost rote.
These 168 units will join almost 200 more that also already under construction, and a total of 777 affordable units have been built in the Mission District in the last five years.
Those market forces shifted, though, before the pandemic dealt a final blow... Lennar sold the property... to the city in 2019.
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