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HIA Archive : Trinity Plaza Housing Redevelopment Trinity Plaza Housing Redevelopment Authors: San Francisco Department of Public Health Date: September 2003
Summary of the HIA * The proposed redevelopment project of an apartment complex near San Francisco’s Civic Center would convert 360 rent-controlled units to market rate condominiums. Background ** and Policy Context In 2003 a local coalition challenged the city of San Francisco’s approval of a private developer’s intent to convert and redevelop a 360 unit rent-controlled apartment complex into market-rate condominiums, also known as Trinity Plaza Housing Redevelopment. They cited human impacts from stress, loss of social support, and the relocation of residents to poor quality housing areas as reasons for their opposition. Health disparities are presumably related to area of residence, ethnicity, and measures of SES. Scope and Methods Researchers conducted a rapid desktop HIA with the scope of the project representing an intersection between health determinants and community priorities, namely housing adequacy and affordability; social cohesion; residential displacement and segregation. Methods used included public hearings, focus groups, historical documents and reports; as well as logic pathways and empirical evidence. Tenant focus groups suggested displacement would lead to increased psychological stress, fear, crowding, substandard living conditions due to limited affordable replacement housing, food insecurity due to increased rent burden, and reduced social capital. Summary of findings Recommendations were made to the planning department to initiate displacement analysis, and to also develop a prevention strategy. Updated 06/23/2009 * The HIA-CLIC website and this summary were developed by the UCLA Health Impact Assessment (UCLA-HIA) Project with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Every effort has been made to ensure that these summaries are factually accurate. HIA authors have been given an opportunity to review summaries before posting. HIA authors may notify us of any factual inaccuracies or updates by filling out a Request for Update form (click for pop-up form).** Readers interested in more detail, including literature citations, for the background summarized here are encouraged to view the full HIA report (see external link above), or to review the relevant Pathway section of HIA-CLIC.
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