Rendering of 1298 Valencia St., next to Arizmendi Bakery. Courtesy Ian Birchall & Associates.





















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  1. I’ve been on Valencia street since 1981. I bought my property like reasonable people do. So I don’t have to try and put a pox on the neighborhood to keep my cherished rent control…..

    1. Good point. I should have worked harder to the job I have now in 1981, when I was not alive yet, so that I too could have afforded to buy my house before income inequality and the housing bubble created a generational housing crisis and downward mobility for people of my generation. I could have also tried harder in the year of my birth, to be born to a wealthier family to shelter me from the neo-liberal economy. I really blew it!!

      1. There are 7 + billion people on the planet…. you are just one of them… The vast majority of them don’t live in San Francisco… are you more entitled than these other 7 billion ?

    2. Bob, you are very lucky and one of the few that could afford to buy here, even in 1981. I was born and raised here. I have never been able to afford a home in my home town. Yes, I cherish my rent control, if I didn’t have it I would be living in Sacramento. I have lived in the Mission most of my life and I don’t want it full of luxury condos.

  2. Build it! New housing stops displacement. When people who can afford market rate move to the Mission — and they will, whether we build or not — we need to have new buildings they can move into so they aren’t pushing others out. Displacement is the direct result of a totally avoidable housing shortage.

  3. Looks great. The neighborhood needs market rate housing to help stop displacement. Please build it!

  4. Waiting for the evidence that “new building stops displacement.” (Please keep repeating that mantra in every article on the subject, trollies! Don’t forget to use the word “NIMBY” as a one-word criticism of any objection on any grounds.)

    In the mean time, I can’t tell the difference between the Mission and Legoland. Why was this neighborhood once so cool? I’ve forgotten.

    1. Please show me your evidence that building very very few new buildings stops displacement.

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