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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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Greenfield Commons Housing Phase II Underway

10/17/2024

The second phase buildout of the Greenfield Commons affordable housing development is underway and the 200 additional units are expected to be completed in 2025.

How Much Would It Cost to End Homelessness in California? Try More Than $100 Billion

10/17/2024

Multiple state agencies spent nearly $24 billion on housing and homeless programs in the first five years of Gavin Newsom’s governorship, but the number of people without homes continued to grow, rising by 20% to more than 180,000 in the most recent federal count in 2023.

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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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Vacation Rentals Ordinances to Take Effect in Parts of Monterey County on Monday

MONTEREY COUNTY — County of Monterey Vacation Rentals Ordinances, which regulate vacation rental operations in inland unincorporated Monterey County, will take effect Oct. 14.

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A Developer Takes Advantage of the Builder’s Remedy Law to Plan 127 Units Outside of Carmel.

A now-vacant 94-year-old hospital building and a row of 12 occupied cottage apartments within unincorporated Carmel just off Highway 1 could become the site of Monterey County’s first “builder’s remedy” housing development, with construction of at least 127 units of…

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