Alise Maripuu / Bay City News
A new 100 percent affordable teacher housing development officially opened in the Sunset on Friday.
The project, called Shirley Chisholm Village took over a decade to build and residents began moving in late last year. San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Maria Su and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie attended the ribbon cutting ceremony last week.
Su called the project — which is San Francisco’s first housing development for teachers — a “bold and necessary step.”
Teachers and district staff with incomes ranging from 30-120 percent of the area's median income are eligible to live at Shirley Chisholm Village, which has 135 units.
The project is a partnership between the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development, SFUSD, and a