14-24 Clement St, San Francisco, CA 94118

The property at 14-24 Clement Street is a three-story, 14-unit multi-family residential building with ground floor commercial space, built in 1908 and currently owned by the John & Lai Fong Yee Revocable Trust. The building has undergone several significant safety and accessibility improvements in recent years, including a completed soft-story retrofit in 2018 costing $65,000, which brought the building into compliance with mandatory seismic safety requirements. Other notable improvements include fire alarm panel replacements in 2016 and 2024, various electrical upgrades in 2007, and compliance with accessibility requirements for entry doors in 2017.

The building has had recurring issues with its fire safety systems, as evidenced by multiple fire complaints from 2016 to 2024 regarding alarm systems and extinguishers, though most have been marked as resolved or corrected. The property has faced several maintenance challenges, particularly in 2016-2017, when it received multiple housing violations related to water damage, mold, interior surface issues, and smoke detection systems. There was also a complaint regarding inadequate hot water in 2018, though this appears to have been resolved based on available records.

More recently, there have been concerns about the building's commercial space, with multiple complaints about a vacant storefront in 2022-2023. The building's exterior areas have experienced frequent garbage and debris issues, with multiple reports of overflowing city garbage cans between 2023 and 2024. The soft-story work was completed and certified, with the building identified as Tier 4 in the city's seismic retrofit program. While many past violations and complaints have been addressed, there are still several active issues from 2016 related to interior surfaces and fire safety that have not been definitively marked as resolved in the available records.