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Valley families will have access to more affordable housing in Reedley. There was a groundbreaking ceremony for a new multi-million dollar complex. Community leaders and partners gathered at the site for the future ”Guardian Village” located on East 11th street.

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Construction is now underway on a new affordable housing community in Reedley. It’s called “Guardian Village,” and the Property owners say it will offer 48 apartment-style homes, 30 percent of which will go toward farmworkers and their families.

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Construction on a new $25 million affordable housing community in Reedley broke ground Thursday, a project that will include more than 30% of residences available to farmworkers and other families struggling with housing insecurity.

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There are 204 low-income households that have state funding approved and are on a list to have new wells drilled, said Tami McVay, director of emergency services for Self‑Help Enterprises.

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TC Hope had been looking for a property for their project and had been struggling to find anything. It bounced around the city council for a while, but until CSET’s executive director Mary Alice Escarsega-Fechner put the group in touch with Self-Help Enterprises, they were at a standstill. Self-Help had a property that was “by-right” to be used for low cost housing or first home operational purposes for those who are transitioning off the street. It was just the partnership TC Hope needed according to Malison.

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Fresno County has the largest gap between white and Latino households who can afford a home, compared to other major metropolitan areas in California, according to the California Association of Realtors’ 2022 housing affordability report.

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The council also got a sneak peak of the newest transit center that is being built in the city. The plans had been approved last year to get the city a multi-modal hub, or transit center, in the center of town to expand transportation opportunities and prepare for the upcoming High Speed Rail.

The approval of the project allowed city manager Jennifer Gomez to execute a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the city and the nonprofit organization Self-Help Enterprises (SHE). The agreement established that SHE will take the lead on construction for the transit center project.

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When the Tulare County Voices @ 210 planning team decided last month to postpone our forum on homelessness, we could have had no idea how timely that decision would be. As it turned out, the forum “Homelessness: Where Are We Now?” will be one day after a scheduled groundbreaking of a low-barrier navigation center for the unsheltered in Visalia.

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Self-Help Enterprises received $15,160,000 to preserve 60 homes at Villa de Guadalupe and $16,150,000 to preserve 64 homes at Goshen Village, both of which are located in Tulare County.

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Tami McVay of Self-Help Enterprises, a San Joaquin Valley nonprofit, said her organization has been receiving about 30 calls a week to report dried wells. The state gave Self-Help about $30 million to provide water tanks, bottled water and new wells to residents who have no water for drinking, bathing or other purposes.

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