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The exterior of the Eugene Brucker Education Center in University Heights on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 in San Diego. (Alejandro Tamayo \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\nThe San Diego Unified school board is set to vote Wednesday on whether to move forward on five affordable-housing proposals that would bring nearly 1,500 homes to district property \u2014 its biggest move yet in a yearslong strategy to help its workforce and generate revenue.<\/p>\n
But both the selection process and the proposals chosen have drawn some concerns from the public, including about who could and couldn\u2019t live there, particularly at the largest site.<\/p>\n
By far the most ambitious project would be built at the site of current district headquarters, the Eugene Brucker Education Center on Normal Street at the edge of Hillcrest and University Heights.<\/p>\n
The proposal recommended by district staff, from developer Affirmed Housing, would see the development of 952 units \u2014 all of them rent-restricted for people who make between 30% and 100% of area median income, and most of them studios and one-bedrooms.<\/p>\n
That project would also involve permanent improvements for a drop-off and pickup area at nearby Birney Elementary, plus building improvements like a preschool, school board documents show.<\/p>\n
And it\u2019s expected to net the district nearly $300 million in rent revenue over the ground lease\u2019s 99-year term.<\/p>\n
The exterior of the Eugene Brucker Education Center in University Heights on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025 in San Diego. (Alejandro Tamayo \/ The San Diego Union-Tribune)<\/p>\n
District staff recommended the proposal over three competing ones, including one that would have built substantially more rent-restricted homes, but for tenants with higher incomes.<\/p>\n
Two of the other sites where San Diego Unified wants housing \u2014 the Revere Center in Linda Vista and the Fremont\/Ballard Center in Old Town \u2014 also drew four competing proposals each. A site in Barrio Logan drew just two, and another Linda Vista site only one.<\/p>\n
The recommended proposal for the Revere Center site would see developer Decro build 220 units, all restricted to people making 30% to 80% of AMI, plus a child care center and outdoor play area. It would also bring the district $134 million in ground rent revenue over its 99-year lease.<\/p>\n
The project picked for the Fremont\/Ballard site, from Bridge Housing, would add 140 homes \u2014 mostly two- and three-bedrooms \u2014 for tenants with 40% to 70% of AMI. It too would have a child care center, along with a district facility, and it would bring $10.7 million in ground rent revenue over 95 years.<\/p>\n
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\nA rendering of a stretch of Normal Street within a more than 900-unit affordable housing development proposed by Affirmed Housing for a major San Diego Unified School District site. (Affirmed Housing)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of the affordable-housing development Affirmed Housing proposed for San Diego Unified School District\u2019s Eugene Brucker site. (Affirmed Housing)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of an interior street within a more than 900-unit affordable housing development proposed by Affirmed Housing for a major San Diego Unified School District site. (Affirmed Housing)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of a street scene within a more than 900-unit affordable housing development proposed by Affirmed Housing for a major San Diego Unified School District site. (Affirmed Housing)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of a campus paseo along Normal Street \u2014 part of the more than 900-unit housing development that Affirmed proposed for the current site of San Diego Unified School District headquarters at the Eugene Brucker Education Center. (Affirmed Housing)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of the affordable housing development that Decro proposed for the Revere Center site in Linda Vista, part of San Diego Unified School District\u2019s push to develop homes on its property. (Decro Corp.)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of a building proposed as part of an affordable housing development at San Diego Unified School District\u2019s Fremont \/ Ballard Center site. (Bridge Housing)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of a proposed affordable housing development at San Diego Unified School District\u2019s Fremont \/ Ballard Center site. (Bridge Housing)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of the housing development Decro proposed at San Diego Unified School District\u2019s Instructional Media Center site in Linda Vista. (Decro Corp)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n
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\nA rendering of the affordable housing project that Decro proposed for a San Diego Unified site on Commercial Street in Barrio Logan. (Decro Corp)\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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A rendering of a stretch of Normal Street within a more than 900-unit affordable housing development proposed by Affirmed Housing for a major San Diego Unified School District site. (Affirmed Housing)\n<\/p>\n