Renovated San Luis Obispo Apartments Open to Seniors with Limited Income

The City of San Luis Obispo recently celebrated the grand re-opening of the Anderson Hotel Apartments, a 101-year-old structure providing 66 homes for extremely low-income seniors and people with disabilities. 

The original Anderson Hotel was converted into senior housing in 1978. Recent renovations by the Housing Authority of San Luis Obispo were made to protect the health and safety of residents, including seismic reinforcements, plumbing and electrical upgrades, new windows, and other structural improvements. 

The Anderson Hotel Apartments renovation was supported by $11.6 million from HCD’s Homekey program. Homekey, along with HCD’s new Homekey+ program, are designed to create avenues of funding for supportive housing communities like this across California. The renovation project also included city, county, and federal funding. 

“This is what you get when all of our community, all our partners, come together for a common goal, and that is to house some of the most vulnerable in our communities,” said Congressman Salud Carbajal. 

The Anderson Hotel Apartments is 100 percent affordable and available to extremely low-income seniors, with additional vouchers available for rental assistance. Forty homes within this complex are specifically reserved for people exiting homelessness.