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Housing and neighborhood services in San Francisco
Are city services keeping pace where housing is concentrated? Choose an area to see its share of the city's homeless-designated affordable housing, service requests and street conditions, compared with its share of residents.
How to read this analysis
Housing means homeless-designated affordable units in developments financed or required by the city's housing office (MOHCD), counted when construction is complete. It is not a complete inventory of supportive housing, shelters or scattered-site units.
Rates count requests, not people. One person or place can generate many. Commercial districts with few residents show high per-resident rates, so check the per-area and per-business views too.
Inspections are a sample. Neighborhoods without inspected routes show as "not inspected", never as clean. Each source covers its own period; windows are listed in every chart's notes.
Privacy. No addresses or site locations are shown; sites the city marks confidential are excluded.
Share of the city
Notes, window and sources
Across the cityKey finding
Across the cityAlso in the data
Explore the evidence
Every finding above comes from the comparisons and tables in the other two views.
Sources and update schedules
Each source keeps its own publication schedule. This page refreshes every 6 hours and uses the latest published version of each.
| Source | Used for | Window used | Last updated | Publication schedule |
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Not yet integrated
- HSH Housing Inventory and Shelter and Crisis Interventions Inventory: published as interactive dashboards without downloadable open data.
- 2026 Housing Inventory Count and Point-in-Time results: a PDF report. Public summaries give citywide totals (7,973 people counted, about 3,400 unsheltered, preliminary).
Methods and limitations
- Housing. Homeless-designated affordable housing units are the homeless unit counts in MOHCD's affordable housing portfolio, for developments marked construction complete; units under rehabilitation are counted separately. Dates are construction completion dates, which can differ from when residents moved in.
- 311 response. Three separate measures: the share of closed requests that took 7 days or more to close; the share of requests still open more than 7 days after they were filed; and the median hours to close, from exact timestamps over the latest 90 days. Closure can be administrative rather than a confirmed fix.
- Street conditions. The Controller's maintenance standards program rates sidewalk litter on sampled routes from 1 (none) to 5 (heavy); higher means more litter. A route covering several neighborhoods counts toward each of them; the citywide average counts each inspection once. Margins of error are 95% intervals.
- Normalization. Population from the American Community Survey 5-year estimates; land area from the city's analysis neighborhood boundaries; commercial activity from active registered business locations. Neighborhoods with fewer than 2,000 residents are left out of per-resident rates.
- Missing, zero and unavailable. 0 means a measured zero. "n/a" means the measure does not apply (too few residents or requests). "Not inspected" means no inspection data, which says nothing about conditions.
- Timing. The construction-completion strip under the 311 timeline shows when units were completed. Many things change in a neighborhood at the same time, so the chart shows timing only.