Nearly 1K New Campus Housing Units Proposed For UC Students In Tenderloin By 2025

By Hannah Albarazi, Bay City News

Nearly 1,000 new units of campus housing could be developed over the next decade in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood to serve students and scholars at University of California at San Francisco and UC Hastings College of the Law.

UCSF and UC Hastings have signed a letter of intent to jointly develop new campus housing and renovate existing housing in an effort to serve the growing housing needs of their students and trainees.

UCSF chancellor Sam Hawgood said the proposal is just one of a number of approaches that university administrators hope will address the lack of affordable housing for students in the city.

“The housing shortage is affecting every resident in this city, including university students,” Hawgood said in a statement. “As a result, a growing number of top-quality students are choosing to study somewhere else, which creates a tremendous loss of potential talent for the city.”

University officials anticipate that if the project moves forward successfully, UC Hastings would complete development of its new academic building at 333 Golden Gate Ave. in 2020, freeing up an aging academic building at 198 McAllister Ave. to be developed into housing, with anticipated completion in 2022.

An adjacent building at 50 Hyde St. would potentially also be developed for housing, according to university officials.

Between 535 and 970 new campus housing units could be created in the Tenderloin and Civic Center areas by 2025, according to UC officials.

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[Source]: The San Francisco Appeal