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Community Homeless Solutions has been helping people in Monterey and San Benito counties overcome homelessness and domestic violence since 1978 by offering emergency shelters, permanent housing, confidential safe housing, counseling, job training, and many more community resources.

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As LA Fires Destroy Homes, California’s Housing Crisis Is About to Get Worse

01/16/2025

The wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles County communities have destroyed at least 10,000 homes so far and more are in the path of still-uncontrolled flames.

Hardening Your Home Against Wildfires - Wildfire Proven

01/14/2025

Read on to learn about the measures taken to harden and protect the lone remaining house of the neighborhoodfrom the Pacific Palisades fire in Southern California.

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LandWatch’s Work Spans Policies and Projects to Advocate for Climate-Friendly and Inclusive Development.

Housing policy is climate policy; the bridge connecting the two is exactly what the nonprofit LandWatch Monterey County aims to fortify. The environmental watchdog group monitors land use policy decisions made by local governments, encouraging the public to get involved…

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CHISPA Receives $1.3M to Repair Housing for Farmworkers in Soledad

SOLEDAD — Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren has announced that the Community Housing Improvement Systems and Planning Association (CHISPA) will receive $1.32 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through a combination of a grant and a low-cost federal loan to …

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The City of Monterey Is Front and Center of the Housing Crisis, an Issue Defining Campaigns.

Increasingly, the housing crisis has become a major political issue in California, and nowhere is that more true than the city of Monterey, where about two-thirds of the residents are renters and where the economy is driven by the hospitality…

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A New Report Shows Infrastructure Can Make the Pajaro River Floodplain Suitable for More Housing.

On Oct. 2, about a year-and-a-half after the Pajaro River levee failed, flood agencies broke ground on the long-awaited Pajaro River Flood Risk Management Project. The five-year, $599 million project sets out to protect the river valley and its tributaries…

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Construction Underway on New Greenfield Housing

GREENFIELD — EAH Housing, a nonprofit housing development and management organization, has announced that construction is underway at Greenfield Commons, with the last modular stack for Greenfield Commons Phase I recently completed.

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Housing Shortfall Impedes Monterey County’s Economic Growth, New Report Shows

MONTEREY COUNTY — The imbalance between housing supply and demand is a key challenge to economic growth in Monterey County, according to a new report that makes clear the need for increasing housing supply.

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Pacifica Senior Living Found to Be in Violation for Attempting to Evict 96-Year-Old Woman.

Two allegations against Pacifica Senior Living for attempting to evict 96-year-old Jean Jacques from a Pacific Grove facility in August have been substantiated by the California Department of Social Services, according to a letter sent on Oct. 16.

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A New Partnership Aims to Make a Meaningful – And Meticulous – Dent in the Housing Crisis.

The future of workforce housing on the Central Coast may well look like a three-bedroom, two-bath house tucked away on a lot at 1045 Cass St. in Monterey.

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Agencies Pull Together to Get Residents Out of a Troubled Homekey Project and Into Homes.

It was an extensive collaboration that enabled Salinas to open the first state-subsidized Homekey project in Monterey County in December 2020, initially housing over 60 people who either had no homes or were on the brink of homelessness. The County…

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A New 142-Unit Housing Community in Marina Welcomes Residents.

Celia Jiménez here, thinking about Terracina at The Dunes, a 142-apartment affordable housing community right off Highway 1 in Marina. It’s a project I’ve seen from start to finish while driving on Imjin Parkway, and I’ve reported extensively about it.

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