December 2024

HCD recently joined state and local leaders in a ribbon-cutting event for Grand View Village, a new affordable housing development in downtown Stockton. Grand View offers 75 new affordable homes to people earning 30-80 percent of the Area Median Income, along with on-site amenities including a computer lab and community room.

Grand View Village is an adaptive reuse project that has transformed the old Delta Hotel and surrounding parcels. A project of Visionary Home Builders of California, Inc. (VHB), Grand View Village was designed to include space for a ground floor grocery store, community center, Montessori school, and Head Start program. 

“We are proud to be building communities that provide a wide variety of services,” CEO of VHB, Carol J. Ornelas, said in an interview with the Escalon Times. “Grand View Village offers quality units, beautiful landscapes, and services that give tenants the opportunity to enjoy their living space.” 

HCD provided almost $18 million to improve the surrounding streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and storm drains through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program, which is administered in partnership with the Strategic Growth Council. Additionally, program funding will provide 25 new bus shelters, and a bi-level passenger rail car for the local transit system, and public Wi-Fi access at San Joaquin Regional Transit District’s Downtown Transit Center. As Grand View Village is located within a mile of the Downtown Transit Center, AHSC funds will also be used to provide resident families with monthly bus passes for the next three years.

“HCD In Focus” is a monthly news in review that highlights the impact of HCD administered programs on the lives of Californians. This month’s highlights: Governor Newsom awards $91 million to Native American communities for affordable housing needs; San Francisco and Milpitas celebrate grand openings of innovative affordable housing communities. Spotlights on Alexander and Patrick, residents of HCD-funded The Neighborhood Village, and HCD employee Jenee McClain-Battiste.

Ventura County recently celebrated the grand opening of Central Terrace Apartments, an affordable housing community in the heart of Downtown Oxnard. 

Central Terrace Apartments, a project of Many Mansions, provides 87 new homes for local area residents, 35 of which are set aside as permanent supportive housing for people experiencing chronic homelessness. Residents can enjoy the central courtyard and barbeque area, as well as other amenities including on-site laundry service and bicycle storage. 

HCD provided over $23 million to support construction and infrastructure improvements through the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC) program administered in partnership with the Strategic Growth Council. Infrastructure improvements include development of the area’s first open-space park, bike lanes, resurfacing, and curb extensions. 

Local transit was also supported by AHSC funds, providing new restroom facilities, lights, and signs to the 4th and B Street transit hub. The grant will also help pay for improvements to 52 downtown bus stops, as well as the purchase of 42 electric 15-passanger vans to be used for CalVans’ vanpool and other farmworker programs. 

Central Terrace Apartments serves very- and extremely low-income residents, with on-site services and programs that promote stability and economic resiliency. HCD welcomes the opportunity to continue expanding this permanent supportive housing model statewide thanks to passage of Proposition 1 and HCD’s new Homekey+ program.

Devany, Pablo and their children moved into their first home at HCD-funded Imagine Village. Their new home gives them a sense of peace and provides the opportunity to further their education, career and life goals. Imagine Village was supported by HCD’s Supportive Housing Multi-Family Housing Program.