"This money might have opened one or two shelters, which might have provided temporary space for maybe a hundred or 200 people for the next year or two. Instead we're leveraging this with state money, with state property, with federal money, with tax increment financing to create almost 900 units of permanent housing." The plan calls for using 19 million dollars that had originally been set aside for the city's homeless siting plan. That initiative had called for building shelters across the city, but stalled due to high costs and community opposition. The City Council will vote on the affordable housing plan at its meeting on Tuesday.
Proposed Sacramento Housing Project
