> The deadline for remediating multi-family soft stories dwellings in San Francisco was 2020. But this only included buildings with 5+ units, or buildings with

> The deadline for remediating multi-family soft stories dwellings in San Francisco was 2020. But this only included buildings with 5+ units, or buildings with a commercial space on the ground floor. There are still many residential buildings, including multi-family buildings (< 5 units), with these 3- or 2-wall soft stories, and there's no mandate in place going forward, AFAIK. The R-2/R-3 neighbors of the city are filled with non retrofitted soft-stories indeed! > The fix is moment frames, but the typical cost is north of $100,000 for even a single-family home, largely because of the deep footings required, which means tearing up and rebuilding large parts of the foundation and walls. I really wish there were more economical options available They do have solutions (Simpsons makes steel strongwalls that are a lot cheaper than moment frames to avoid you having to have a shearwall on the entire front wall), and you'll find structural engineers that will do plans without moment frames that'll definitely get accepted by the city. You'll also find the other half of structural engineers only willing to do moment frames that'll cost you 100-200k$.