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Building Decarbonization Could Push Out Low-Income Renters. A San Francisco Program Hopes to Prevent That.

May 14, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—On a Wednesday in late September, Amparo Vigil showed a contractor around the modest, three-story building she owns in San Francisco’s outer Mission District. The contractor—just one of a handful visiting the building that week—toured the top floor apartment, where Vigil lives with her grandchildren, and the two one-bedroom units she rents out on the second floor. He took a close look at the kitchens, the furnaces and the electrical paneling and used a drone to get a good view of the roof.

The building—which abuts another one Vigil’s sister and father own and out of which her family operates Puerto Alegre, one of a pair of popular Mission restaurants—is about to undergo a comprehensive renovation as one of three demonstration projects funded by the San Francisco Department of the Environment’s Healthy Resilient Homes Project. Read more on Inside Climate News.

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