Ping Yuen

Henry Temple Howard, John Galen Howard’s son, was hired to design public housing in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Following WWII the project was transferred to Doug Baylis, Ernest Born, and John Bolles to create Ping Yuen in 1959, the first federally funded housing project in San Francisco’s Chinatown. With 89 units per acre Ping Yuen was the highest density of any Bay Area housing project at the time it was built.