The City Council approved the allocation of $4.5 million for affordable housing development and programs that help people avoid eviction and apply for housing
Chula Vista will make $4 million available to developers to build an affordable housing project and more than $500,000 in services officials say will help protect people from becoming homeless.
The funds were allocated from the city’s Low and Moderate Income Housing Asset Fund. Money can be used in several ways, such as developing affordable units and services for homelessness prevention and rapid rehousing. The asset fund was established to receive and spend the revenues from housing assets of the former Redevelopment Agency, which was dissolved along with all redevelopment agencies statewide in 2012.
“You’re still not solving the biggest thing that the people want taken care of: people in the tents,” he said. “Even though the Supreme Court says, ‘Yes, you can get rid of the homeless without shelter,’ but no, the right thing to do is provide a shelter.”$300,000 for administrative costs, which the city said includes extending contracts and compliance services.
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