But what makes Tahanan notable isn’t its aesthetic. It’s the way it was built. Tahanan went up in three years, for less than $400,000 per unit.1 Affordable housing projects in the Bay Area routinely take twice as long and can cost almost twice as much. “Development timelines for affordable projects in San Francisco have typically stretched to 6 years or longer and development costs have reached $600,000 to $700,000 per unit,” reported the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley.2 San Francisco cannot dent its housing crisis at the speed and cost at which
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