Our Goal is to Deliver

1,000 Units of Middle-INCOME Housing

in San Francisco over the next 5 Years

We’ve proved the model.

now we scale.


Teachers, nurses, and first responders often earn too much for traditional affordable housing, but not enough to compete in the market. The Essential Housing Fund exists to close that gap.

The Sophie Maxwell Building proved it’s possible, delivering workforce housing with speed and discipline.

THE approach

THE Team

THE Headlines