the tenderloin
While the Fillmore’s resistance to urban renewal couldn’t stop the wrecking ball, the Fillmore district experienced a nationally-unique preservation of its housing stock, creating the greatest concentration of Single Room Occupancy Hotels in the United States.
mid-market
Inclusionary housing is a relatively new mechanism to create affordable housing. This program requires apartment complexes to build a certain percent affordable. While San Francisco has the highest required inclusionary housing rate—30%—the program highlights how hard it is to fulfill the vision of economically diverse neighborhoods. Follow one mother’s story from homelessness to an inclusionary unit in a luxury tower next to Twitter’s headquarters in the Mid-Market neighborhood.
the bayview
In a neighborhood where Urban Renewal programs built hundreds of affordable, but isolated housing units a new vision is sweeping in. A form of gentrification that brings economically diverse households together and provides job training to try and bring folks out of poverty.
WHAT IF I’M NOT IN SAN FRANCISCO?
We are working on ways people can experience the Museum of the Hidden City outside of San Francisco. First off, we are designing a version of the app that offers a virtual experience of the walk, including ways to see the AR in your living room.
SAMPLE OF WHAT 360 VIDEO MAY LOOK LIKE
AND A PODCAST
Concept for the podcast would be a new version of the story, going deeper into the characters’ backstory and how their experiences in the 1960’s shaped the challenges to build affordable housing today.
PODCAST EXTRAS
The podcast may be accompanied by an Augmented Reality app that lets listeners explore the space and characters being featured in the stories.
