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San Joaquin County is transforming an empty lot in downtown Stockton into affordable apartments for unhoused people using a $2.1 million grant the state awarded it late last month.
The empty lot at East Sonora Street and the commercial building located at South El Dorado Street will soon be revamped as Sonora Square Apartments: two buildings of roughly 16,000 and 10,000 square feet and containing 21 and 11 units respectively. The units will be available for rent for those dealing with serious mental illness and who are homeless.
Occupants will likely be able to move in in the fall of 2023, Peter Ragsdale, the Executive Director of the Housing Authority of the County of San Joaquin (HACSJ), said in an email.