Mercy Housing California

Mercy Housing is one of the largest developers of affordable housing in the country and currently has developed, owns and operates 11,000 housing units in California with another 4,000 units in development across the State. Sunnydale is a 50-acre public housing site in San Francisco; the housing is in a severely distressed condition after decades of disinvestment.The San Francisco City & Housing Authority is funding Mercy Housing to redesign and rebuild 775 units of Sunnydale’s distressed public housing units as new homes for current Sunnydale families while also building 425 additional affordable homes and 500 new market-rate homes that can serve a range of family incomes. But Mercy Housing, as a nonprofit developer whose home is in San Francisco, has an opportunity and an obligation to go deeper in revitalizing this community. Battery Powered support would help fund The Hub - the heart of the revitalized Sunnydale/ Visitacion Valley neighborhoods, creating spaces and programs where adults and children of different incomes, ethnicities and cultures come together to learn, play and grow. The Hub was designed based on extended research, including visits to 10 cities to understand how to create functional mixed-Income communities. The Hub will include a Boys & Girls Club, a child care and early childhood development center, a recreation center and gymnasium, a teaching kitchen, multipurpose rooms for events and classes, study spaces, community broadband and more. Private sources of funding are critical to make this Hub a reality.