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<\/a>Photo: Michael Caven\/Flickr<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nSan Francisco’s Mission District has\u00a0faced some difficulties recently, from a five-alarm fire<\/a> that displaced many SRO residents to dissidence over the proposed “Monster in the Mission<\/a>” development. But last week, the neighborhood got some good news \u2014 thanks to a recent land purchase, 140 units of affordable housing will be built on 1990 Folsom Street.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0purchase was made by\u00a0Mission Economic Development Agency<\/a>\u00a0(MEDA), which has been helping San Francisco’s low- to moderate-income residents since 1973. Over the decades the organization has provided aid for<\/span>\u00a0thousands of city residents, and it now has\u00a0an impressive array of civil activists on its\u00a0board of directors. Notable members include Matthew Haney, president of San Francisco\u2019s Unified School District, and Jabari Herbert, former executive director at the Alliance for West Oakland Development.<\/p>\n Currently, 1990 Folsom Street is home to an abandoned factory previously used by Earthgrains Baking Company.\u00a0MEDA got the funds to acquire the land through Proposition A, a housing bill approved in November 2015 that allocated $310 million to the construction of affordable housing in San Francisco.\u00a0Of that amount, $50 million was awarded\u00a0to the Mission District.<\/p>\n According to MissionLocal<\/a>,<\/span>\u00a0Jean Chadbourne of arts collective <\/span>The Growlery<\/a>\u00a0was involved in the purchase and said in a since-deleted Facebook post\u00a0that it will “<\/span><\/span>involve 140 units of below-market-rate housing, with a fifth of the units reserved for formerly homeless families.” She also said that 5,000 square feet will be used for child services and\u00a0arts space.<\/span><\/p>\n Money for the units comes courtesy of Proposition A, an affordable housing bill approved late last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":156208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11269],"tags":[],"coauthors":[8937],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"\n