Recovery Strategies

The Planning Department, the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD), and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development (OEWD) are working together to develop a coordinated recovery work program to monitor and analyze changing conditions, coordinate efforts with other agencies and departments, and provide immediate and on-going measures that will help the City adapt in the following program areas:

• Housing Recovery
• Neighborhood Business Recovery
• Neighborhood Life
• Work Spaces

Priorities

The recovery work begins with the following five priorities:

• Center recovery on racial and social equity
• Prioritize recovery towards just and vital San Francisco
• Strengthen community engagement in implementation
• Root action in data and analysis 
• Coordinate strategies across agencies

Goals

The recovery strategies team has established three goals by which to prioritize its recommendations:

Serve and invest in low-resourced neighborhoods

Through the lens of Greenlining its Priority Geographies, the Planning Department seeks to repair the dispossession at the root of housing inequality in San Francisco. 

Open up high-resourced neighborhoods

Neighborhoods that have predominantly white populations are also the ones with the greatest barriers to entry because of their limited housing type diversity, availability, and high cost. Housing opportunities for communities of color in high-resourced neighborhoods will truly address the diversity that all San Franciscans pursue, it will improve life expectancy, wealth access and services for people of color, and will contribute to diversify cultural resources in these neighborhoods.

Good resources across all neighborhoods

While recognizing that neighborhoods at either end of the economic spectrum play a significant role in their populations’ wealth and health outcomes, all neighborhoods must meet baseline access to high-quality resources that reduce the burdens on caregiving households, especially those with vulnerable populations, including children or seniors. As the health and well-being of many San Franciscans depends on the unpaid or low-wage labor of women, especially women of color, a recovery towards a just city needs to focus on access and proximity to high-quality education, childcare, food, healthcare, digital infrastructure, social services, and civic institutions across all neighborhoods.