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SF Department of Public Health / partner agencies
Housing Opportunities for Persons With AIDS provides short-term rent, mortgage and utility help plus long-term rental subsidies.
Helps with: Ongoing rent subsidy, move-in costs, housing case management
SF Office of Transgender Initiatives + community partners
Subsidies, shared housing placements and eviction prevention created specifically for trans and gender nonconforming San Franciscans.
Helps with: Rental subsidy, housing navigation, move-in grants
SF Department on the Status of Women funded providers
Confidential relocation assistance for people leaving abuse, including emergency hotel stays, deposits and short-term rent.
Helps with: Emergency relocation, deposit, 6–24 months of rent support
SF Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development
The city's below-market-rate rental and ownership lottery. Preferences exist for displaced tenants and neighborhood residents.
Helps with: Permanently affordable apartments priced to your income
San Francisco Housing Authority
Federal voucher covering the gap between 30% of your income and rent. Waitlists open periodically — get on the notification list.
Helps with: Long-term rent subsidy that moves with you
Season of Sharing Fund
One-time grants paid directly to a landlord for deposits, first month's rent or back rent for households in crisis.
Helps with: Up to several thousand dollars toward move-in costs
SF Tenants Union / Eviction Defense Collaborative
Free advice on discrimination, habitability, deposits and eviction defense. Gender identity, HIV status and survivor status are protected classes in SF.
Helps with: Legal advice, discrimination complaints, deposit recovery
Community Thrift, Rebuilding Together, local mutual aid
Free furniture vouchers, volunteer moving crews and truck-share programs for households moving out of unstable housing.
Helps with: Boxes, truck, furniture, volunteer labor