{"id":251294,"date":"2025-09-24T14:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251294\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T14:43:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T14:43:08","slug":"california-awards-4-san-diego-county-housing-developments-nearly-60-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/251294\/","title":{"rendered":"California awards 4 San Diego County housing developments nearly $60 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; The state is funding four affordable housing developments in San Diego County to the tune of $59.4 million as part of its new finance program, the county announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The funds are part of more than $141 million that Gov. Gavin Newsom has slated in awards intended to reduce homelessness and increase housing availability across the state.<\/p>\n<p>The developments &#8212; which had already secured around $16 million in county funding &#8212; are currently in the planning stages. When complete, they will create 380 units of affordable housing.<\/p>\n<p>The projects are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 73rd Street Apartments in the College Area, a 120-unit building serving those making 30%, 40% and 50% of the county&#8217;s Area Median Income. The county had previously funded nearly $7 million, supplemented by Tuesday&#8217;s $18.48 million from the state<\/li>\n<li>Goodwin on Glacier in Grantville, a 131-unit project for seniors 55 years and older on county surplus land. The state awarded $35.5 million<\/li>\n<li>Encanto Gateway in Southeastern San Diego, a 65-unit project for low-income households and people experiencing homelessness. The state awarded $1.5 million, adding to the county&#8217;s $6.62 million<\/li>\n<li>Iris Avenue Trolley Apartments in Otay Mesa, a 64-unit project for low-income households making 30%-40% AMI. The county had invested $3 million and the state awarded an additional $3.9 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;The new funding helps secure the viability of these affordable housing developments which generally require multiple funding sources and are unable to begin construction until being fully funded,&#8221; according to a statement from the county.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2017, San Diego County has invested more than $327 million in affordable housing, helping open 2,901 homes with 3,072 more in the pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>According to a San Diego Housing Federation report last year, the county as a whole is short more than 134,500 housing units for low-income renters.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The need for affordable housing in San Diego is greater than ever,&#8221; Stephen Russell, president and CEO of SDHF, said when the report was released. &#8220;Today&#8217;s data shows that investment from all levels of government is helping, but now is not the time to back down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN DIEGO (CNS) &#8211; The state is funding four affordable housing developments in San Diego County to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":251295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,133051,3549,133052,133053,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-251294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-housing","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-affordable-housing","14":"tag-san-diego-housing","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}