SRO affordable housing across California
California's pipeline includes 3 sro affordable housing projects across 2 counties — 3 funded with 9% tax credits and 0 with 4% credits, totaling roughly 142 units. Search by builder or filter by county and credit type below.
Single-room-occupancy (SRO) housing provides compact, deeply affordable units — a key tool for housing individuals at the lowest income levels and those exiting homelessness.
BUILDLAB designs the low-voltage, security, and life-safety systems behind developments like these — structured cabling, surveillance, door access, and fire & life safety, engineered in-house.
3 projects · 142 total units
Rose Creek Village
San Diego, San Diego County
- Builder: National Community Renaissance of California
- Units: 60 (59 affordable)
- Type: New Construction
- Status: Re-Application
- Tax credit: $2.3M/yr federal
- App #: CA-2024-147
Sierra Madre Apartments
San Francisco, San Francisco County
- Builder: Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation
- Units: 47 (46 affordable)
- Type: Acquisition / Rehab
- Status: Preliminary Reservation
- Tax credit: $2.5M/yr federal + $8.2M state
- App #: CA-2024-087
3300 Mission Street
San Francisco, San Francisco County
- Builder: Dreamkeeper Venture LLC
- Units: 35 (34 affordable)
- Type: New Construction
- Status: Preliminary Reservation
- Tax credit: $2.5M/yr federal
- App #: CA-2024-003
Building affordable housing in sro housing?
BUILDLAB designs and coordinates the low-voltage, security, and life-safety scope these projects depend on — Division 27/28 structured cabling, IP surveillance, door access, DAS/ERCCS, and common-area networks — engineered in-house and coordinated across every trade to keep infrastructure costs contained. Get a free budget estimate scoped to your unit count and building type.
Data source: California Tax Credit Allocation Committee (CTCAC). Map © OpenStreetMap contributors.
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