The Madrid (San Francisco, California)

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22 South Park
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This hike starts in South Park, a recent center of the dot-com boom that is now a bit quieter.

Before you begin this hike, take a look at The Madrid at 22 South Park, as well as The Park View at 102 South Park. These are recently developed single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels built to accommodate low-income and formerly homeless individuals. Housing, always in short supply in geographically restricted San Francisco, became unobtainable even for the well-to-do during the late-1990s dot-com boom. When the surging local economy combined with city budget crunches and irreparable seismic damage to old SRO hotels from the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the housing shortage became acute. Since large-scale housing projects for the disadvantaged are expensive and politically difficult to build, there has been a greater emphasis on building smaller housing units that fit seamlessly into their surroundings.
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