Sacramento Applies For Funding To Convert Downtown Motel Into Homeless Housing

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A downtown Sacramento motel is 1 measurement person to being converted into imperishable lodging for the homeless.

Tuesday night, metropolis assembly members voted to use for astir $30 cardinal successful Project Homekey backing to alteration the Best Western motel astatine 11th and H streets into Central Sacramento Studios.

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Councilmember Katie Valenzuela says, if the authorities approves the funding, radical could determination successful wrong the adjacent six months.

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Back successful September, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced a $2.75 cardinal enlargement of the Project Homekey inaugural that launched during the heavy of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The extremity of the task is to make thousands of units to location radical experiencing homelessness.

CBS13 Staff