ALAMEDA — A $12.3 million grant awarded Thursday by Gov. Gavin Newsom’s workplace will permit the town of Alameda to construct dozens of recent models of momentary homeless housing.
The challenge will embody 47 modular flats for unhoused people and couples, together with individuals with disabilities and younger adults transitioning out of foster care. The grant comes from Newsom’s Homekey initiative, which helps cities, counties and nonprofits create homeless housing, both by shopping for and changing resorts, flats and different present buildings, or by developing new models from the bottom up.
Development on the Alameda challenge, dubbed Dignity Village, will begin this spring and is anticipated to take about eight months. The models are meant as interim housing, the place residents can dwell whereas they’re awaiting a everlasting housing placement.
“I’m thrilled that the state of California has acknowledged the importance of this challenge,” Alameda Mayor Marilyn Ezzy Ashcraft stated in a press release. “As the town works to finish homelessness in Alameda, Dignity Village will present life-changing, and lifesaving, alternatives for its residents.”
Petaluma additionally acquired an award Thursday, profitable greater than $15.7 million to create 60 models of homeless housing.
The Alameda challenge might be constructed on fifth Avenue on a city-owned web site often known as the “bottle parcel” due to its uncommon bottle form. Every modular unit could have a mattress, desk and personal rest room, and residents will share a kitchen, eating room, parking space and canine run.
Alameda County will contribute $2.35 million to the challenge to cowl working bills for 5 years. Residents will obtain entry to bodily and psychological well being care, employment help and assist discovering everlasting housing.
Newsom made $1.45 billion out there for statewide Homekey initiatives this 12 months, about $200 million of which was reserved for the Bay Space. One other $1.3 billion might be out there subsequent 12 months. Newsom began the Homekey program in 2020, doling out $846 million and creating 6,029 models of housing all through California.
As a part of the newest spherical of Homekey funding, Newsom’s workplace to date has awarded $514 million for 1,800 models in 26 initiatives.
In January, Santa Clara County received $22 million to transform the Bella Vista Inn in Santa Clara into homeless housing.
“We’re treating homelessness with the sense of urgency that the second calls for, as a result of each Californian deserves a spot to name dwelling,” Newsom stated in a information launch. “Almost each week, we’re approving extra Homekey initiatives up and down our state – persevering with our progress to deal with Californians at an unprecedented charge.”