Category: Galvin Apartments

In 2003, THC worked out a plan with the Residential Builders Association and developer Joe Cassidy to revise an approved project for 172 live-work condos at Fourth and Freelon in San Francisco’s South of Market (SOMA) neighborhood. The project had no affordable units. The new plan gave Cassidy a thirty-five-foot height increase in exchange for building 15% of the square footage (the city’s inclusionary housing rate at the time) of the market rate project as affordable housing off-site. This resulted in Cassidy building a 56-unit apartment building at 785 Brannan and giving it to THC free and clear. THC named the building after longtime ally and fellow activist, Sister Bernie Galvin.

2002

555 4th Street

Highlights of the affordable component of the Fourth Street Affordable Housing Special Use District.

2002

4th and Freelon More Affordable

A flyer argues in favor of the 4th and Freelon project’s superior affordability compared to other housing under Inclusionary Housing Legislation.

2003

City Needs More Affordable Options

by Adriel Hampton

Affordable housing proponents pushed for greater flexibility in the 2002 inclusionary housing law, to allow for more housing for low-income residents.

2003

Building Up Allows Affordable Housing

by J.K. Dineen

Builder Joe Cassidy applauds the Board of Supervisors’ decision to allow developers to exceed height and density restrictions and prepares for his estimated $9 million construction of what will become THC’s Galvin Apartments.