Keeping families housed, one building at a time

Preservation that
puts people first

MEDA acquires and rehabilitates multi-unit buildings to keep long-term San Francisco renters stably housed in the neighborhoods they call home.

Preservation is one of MEDA’s most immediate tools for housing stabilization. In rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods like the Mission, rent-controlled buildings are often bought by speculative investors—leading to displacement of low-income families who have lived there for decades. MEDA flips that script.

Through San Francisco’s Small Sites Program, we acquire targeted buildings where residents are at risk of losing their homes. Once purchased, we make needed repairs, maintain rent protections, and permanently remove the properties from the speculative market. These buildings are then stewarded by MEDA as permanently affordable community assets.

It’s one of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to keep families in San Francisco, stop displacement, and preserve the cultural fabric of the neighborhoods—unit by unit, block by block.

380 San Jose Ave.

3329 20th St.

2217 Mission St.

16 305 San Carlos St.

3254 23rd St.

654 Capp St.

1382 30th Ave.

40 Sycamore St.

3198 24th St.

3156 Mission St.

642 Guerrero St.

3800 Mission St.

1015 Shotwell St.

369 3rd Ave.

3353 26th St.

4830 Mission St.

566 Natoma St.

2059 Mission St.

35 Fair St.

300 Ocean Ave.

344 Precita Ave.

269 Richland Ave.

1411 Florida St.

239 Clayton St.

60 28th St.

520 Shrader St.

2676 Folsom St.

290 16th St.

3225 24th St.