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Bridge SF City Spotlight | City of San Francisco & Exygy

This blog post highlights collaboration on DAHLIA, San Francisco's first digital affordable housing portal launched in 2018.

Organizations: Exygy, City and County of San Francisco

Authors: Roshen Sethna, Barry Roeder

Published Year: 2018

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The post features Roshen Sethna (Exygy Civic Partner) and Barry Roeder (SF Housing Office), who discuss how DAHLIA transformed service delivery—creating a centralized, user-friendly platform that allows San Francisco residents to search and apply for affordable housing online.

It emphasizes how the tool redesigned the previously fragmented, paper-based system into a holistic digital resource, improving transparency and accessibility. The post also outlines how this digital innovation not only improved housing access in San Francisco but laid the groundwork for regional expansion through the open-source Bloom Housing platform.