Stockton City Council has shown willingness to end commercial and residential eviction moratoriums when the local COVID-19 emergency expires on Feb. 28.
Stockton City Council discussions at its regular meeting Tuesday evening included issues such as additional federal COVID-19 funding, a homeless housing grant and the renovation of McKinley Park.
A resolution to accept an Enterprise Community Partners philanthropic grant of more than $680,000 to cover the operating costs of Town Center Studios, new housing for chronically homeless Stockton and San Joaquin County residents, was included in the meeting's consent agenda.
The city received a $4.3 million state grant, which included the philanthropic funding, in September through Project Homekey. The $600 million program gives funding for purchasing and rehabilitate housing, including hotels, motels, vacant apartment buildings and other properties, and convert them into permanent, long-term housing for people experiencing or at risk of experiencing homelessness.
The Stockton Record
STOCKTON – Applications are being accepted to house individuals who are experiencing homelessness.
Stocktonians Taking Action to Neutralize Drugs and Dignity Health have purchased and renovated seven units to house homeless who are enrolled in San Joaquin County’s Whole Person Care Program.
STAND is taking applications to place individuals into their third home that will house four individuals in time for the rainy season.
STAND has been working to improve the community since 1991 with a portfolio of projects ranging from gang and drug prevention activities, community lighting projects, establishing drug free zones at schools, to housing rehabilitation projects. As of January 2020, STAND has purchased and rehabilitated, or built and sold more than 300 single family homes. Seventy percent of those homes were sold to low and critically low-income families.
The Stockton Record
STOCKTON – Some chronically homeless residents of Stockton and San Joaquin County soon will have a place to call home.
Town Center Studios, a hotel in central Stockton that has been renovated into 40 studio units, will open its doors Monday. The effort is to help create desperately needed housing by leveraging state resources mostly from Project Homekey and local expertise from the Central Valley Low Income Housing Corp. and Stocktonians Taking Action to Neutralize Drugs to take vulnerable people out of shelters and off the streets and into permanent homes.
“We know that housing and support are the keys to overcoming homelessness,” said Jon Mendelson, director of CVLIHC. “This project provides brand-new capacity to get people into housing, and it will keep people housed for years to come.”
Renovated hotel to house some chronically homeless in Stockton [The Record, Stockton, Calif]
STOCKTON – Some chronically homeless residents of Stockton and San Joaquin County soon will have a place to call home.
Town Center Studios, a hotel in central Stockton that has been renovated into 40 studio units, will open its doors Monday. The effort is to help create desperately needed housing by leveraging state resources mostly from Project Homekey and local expertise from the Central Valley Low Income Housing Corp. and Stocktonians Taking Action to Neutralize Drugs to take vulnerable people out of shelters and off the streets and into permanent homes.