California awards nearly $12M to San Diego to build homes for homeless

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — The Metropolis of San Diego was awarded practically $12 million from the state’s Challenge Homekey program as the town works to fight persistent homelessness, in line with a press launch from the mayor’s workplace.

Mayor Todd Gloria says the $11.83 million will assist fund the creation of 40 new properties for San Diegans with out shelter.

Based on the discharge, the cash can be used to assist construct PATH Villas El Cerrito, which is a partnership between PATH Ventures, Household Well being Facilities of San Diego and Daring Communities.

Gloria says ending homelessness is “job primary” in California, and he gave Gov. Gavin Newsom credit score for prioritizing Challenge Homekey.

“What solves persistent homelessness is housing with supportive companies, and this award from the state’s Challenge Homekey will assist us construct 40 extra of those critically wanted properties,” Gloria says.

San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Nathan Fletcher says due to the grant, San Diego is healthier outfitted to offer secure and steady properties in help of San Diegans who want it most.

“This undertaking is one other demonstration of the County’s unprecedented partnerships and investments in inexpensive housing and addressing homelessness, our area’s most urgent challenges,” Fletcher says.

The PATH Villas improvement is situated at 5476 El Cajon Blvd. in El Cerrito. The constructing can have 5 flooring of flats, sitting proper above a ground-floor well being and rehab clinic, which Household Well being Facilities will function.

The complicated can have 5 studio flats, 17 one-bedroom flats, 18 two-bedroom flats and one supervisor’s unit, the mayor’s workplace says. The clinic will supply preventive and medical care, psychological well being care, outpatient substance-use therapy, dental care and different supportive companies.

“The event may also embrace a canine park and a enterprise heart to help with job searches,” in line with the mayor’s workplace.

The press launch says the County Board of Supervisors in April voted to allocate about $11 million to the event for capital and a part of the long run operation prices for the companies. Town will present greater than $2 million from its coffers from the state Everlasting Native Housing Allocation program, which was established in 2017.

The discharge additionally says practically $3 million wanted to finish the financing will come from mortgage funding.

PATH Ventures, the San Diego Housing Fee and County of San Diego utilized for the Challenge Homekey award, the discharge says.

Via the housing fee, the town says it would additionally present 40 project-based housing vouchers to assist pay hire for residents who beforehand skilled homelessness.

Council President Sean Elo-Rivera represents the realm the place the undertaking is situated.

“Housing is a human proper, and the shortage of housing has left us in a worsening humanitarian disaster that’s having a devastating impact on our neighborhood. That’s why we’ve an ethical crucial to make the most of all alternatives obtainable to create housing alternatives,” says Elo-Rivera.