Cost effective construction in SF?

We passed the following building directly across from San Francisco's Hall of Justice (aka courthouse / police HQ / county jail) and it looked like some kind of post-apocalyptic prison built from leftover Mad Max assault car parts.

I got curious what the hell they were thinking, and it turns out

1. it's 145 units of government housing for formerly homeless people,

2. it was built for a cost of $380k per studio unit,

3. that's actually considered really good by SF standards, and it's held up as an example of how streamlined permitting and partial offsite construction can simplify further projects,

4. it was designed by famous architect David Baker to prove that projects in SF can be done more efficiently, and

5. it looks less oppressively fortress-y from the other direction. I went from hating it to kind of liking it.