San Francisco's Community Action Plan for Seismic Safety estimates that at least 58,000 residents and 7,000 workers occupy wood-frame buildings with a soft-story condition that make them vulnerable to damage or even collapse in an earthquake.
Currently, soft-story buildings pose a significant threat to San Francisco’s ability to recover from a disaster. Retrofitting these 2,800 buildings will better protect occupants from injury and/or displacement and increase our city's resilience by ensuring that in the wake of an earthquake, we're able to retain our most important asset: our people.