Ground broken on affordable housing project in Mission District

San Francisco city officials broke ground in November on the future site of 80 new affordable housing units in the city’s Mission District, which will bring much needed housing to the neighborhood’s low-income residents.

The future apartment building at 490 S. Van Ness Ave. will be entirely made up of households earning between about $35,500 and $71,050 annually for a family of four — or between 30 and 60 percent of the area median income.