San Diego Celebrates Affordable Senior Housing in San Ysidro

The City of San Diego recently celebrated the grand opening of Ventana al Sur, a new affordable rental housing development for low-income and formerly homeless seniors in the San Ysidro Historic Village District. 

Ventana al Sur offers one hundred homes to seniors whose incomes range from 20-50 percent of Area Median Income, with 25 homes set aside for seniors who have experienced homelessness. Residents of the development will receive on-site support and mental health services to help them maintain housing stability. “Having your parents or grandparents be able to be near you as you’re raising kids, it’s an amazing, amazing thing,” said California State Assemblymember David Alvarez. “That’s what this community is about, and that’s what this building and this housing is about.” 

A project of MAAC and Kingdom Development, HCD contributed $20 million from the Multifamily Housing Program and $30.4 million from the Accelerator program to support the development of this important senior housing. Ventana al Sur is in direct alignment with Governor Gavin Newsom’s mission to address homelessness and housing affordability, which utilizes programs like Homekey+ to create permanent supportive housing with wrap-around services across California. 

“This project itself is tangible proof of the fact that we are making progress on this key issue of housing affordability and homelessness,” said San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria at the community’s grand opening. “Affordable housing projects like this one help us to address the rising cost of rent, which we know is pricing out too many people in our community.”