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Applications for Shirley Chisholm Village are available through February 3rd at 5:00pm on DAHLIA, the San Francisco Housing Portal. If you applied for housing in a previous lottery, you will need to submit an application in order to secure a spot on the waitlist.
There are 5 available units and 200 open waitlist spots! Once lottery winners fill all available units, additional lottery winners will be placed on the waitlist. As residents move out of the units, households on the waitlist will be contacted in lottery rank order by MidPen Housing, the property manager.
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Shirley Chisholm Village provides 134 affordable rental units for families and individuals in San Francisco and prioritizes San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) educators, other SFUSD district employees, and applicable San Francisco Housing Preferences.
- Watch a news segment from KPIX from the grand opening on September 5, 2025.
- Take the neighborhood tour video and preview a sample apartment on this 3D unit tour.
- Hear what residents are saying about this unique housing opportunity.
- Learn more about the property and amenities on the MidPen Housing website.
- Sign up on DAHLIA to receive an email directly from Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development (MOHCD) whenever a new housing opportunity is posted, including for Shirley Chisholm Village.
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Lottery Updates
A virtual lottery (not in person) will be held on 02/24/2026 at 11:00am. Please check the DAHLIA listing for a link to the virtual lottery on February 24th.
After the lottery, you should be able to log into your DAHLIA account to see your randomly-generated lottery ranking. Subsequent to the lottery, leasing agents from MidPen Housing will be contacting applicants by order of lottery ranking to fill any vacant units. The MidPen leasing team will contact applicants using the contact information provided in applications submitted on DAHLIA. Applicants that remain on the wait list will be contacted in lottery rank order by MidPen Housing as residents move out of the units.
Photos and Renderings of Shirley Chisholm Village
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This page was last updated on January 22, 2026