The San Francisco Redevelopment Agency ( SFRA ) was an urban renewal agency active from 1948 until 2012, with purpose to improve the urban landscape through "redesign, redevelopment, and rehabilitation" of specific areas of the city.
8-426: SFRA may refer to: San Francisco Redevelopment Agency Science Fiction Research Association Special Flight Rules Area , a type of U.S. aviation airspace with special restrictions Strategic Flood Risk Assessment Sweep frequency response analysis Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
16-644: A major source of their funding (through a TIF law); which prompted the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors initiated a policy requiring that half of the agency's tax increment financing be used towards affordable housing in San Francisco. The agency had removed 14,207 housing units between 1948 and 1978. They started a process of replacing the units with affordable housing; and by 2012, the agency had created 7,498 affordable units (a net loss of 6,709). The agency
24-559: The Housing Act of 1937 . Initially the agency was not a separate department, but rather the functions were carried out by various city departments; however by 1950, the organization formed its own city department. The first agency chairman in 1948 was Morgan Arthur Gunst; who had previously worked for the San Francisco Planning Commission. From 1989 until 2011, the agency used tax increment financing as
32-528: The Fillmore District in order to build new housing and new commercial buildings. They had bulldozed the neighborhood but then left empty lots for some 30 years, destroying the once vibrant black community. In 2007, the SFRA built the "Fillmore Heritage Center" which included commercial spaces, black-owned apartments, a jazz club, and a theater space; but 10 years later most of the black community
40-691: The agency was working on slum clearance and addressing urban "blight". They replaced the demolished units with newly built affordable housing, but was only able to replace a portion. It was succeeded by the San Francisco Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII). On August 10, 1948, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency was formed under the California Community Redevelopment Law of 1945, and in response to
48-597: The city had a surplus of buildings in Japantown . The SFRA took this as an opportunity for urban renewal to create the new Western Addition neighborhood — particularly the formation of the Fillmore District into an African American area. The creation of the Geary Street underpass was part of the project. By the 1970s, the San Francisco Redevelopment Agency had forced out 50,000 African Americans from
56-552: The title SFRA . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=SFRA&oldid=1238681258 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages San Francisco Redevelopment Agency SFRA demolished over 14,000 housing units in San Francisco between 1948 and 1976, claiming
64-522: Was dissolved on February 1, 2012; in response to the Supreme Court of California decision issued on December 29, 2011, in the case, California Redevelopment Association et al. v. Ana Matosantos . The City and County of San Francisco created the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) as the successor agency. During the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II ,
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