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Quality of Life

City Council to Consider Loan For Affordable Housing Complex

A sign says "Welcome to San Ysidro," March 2, 2018.
Elma Gonzalez Lima Brandao
A sign says "Welcome to San Ysidro," March 2, 2018.

The City Council will consider Monday approving a $5.5 million loan for construction of an affordable housing complex for homeless San Ysidro seniors.

Funds would come from the city's $25 million Affordable Rental Housing Development Program pool, which is intended to leverage money from other public and private funding sources to spur development of mixed-income housing.

The three-story, 29,610 square-foot San Ysidro Senior Village Apartments building will be built on a 1.25-acre plot at 517 W. San Ysidro Blvd.

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Fifty studio units will provide permanent supportive housing to individuals who earn 30-50 percent of the area median income. There will also be one manager's unit, a community room, supportive service counseling offices, laundry facilities, storage lockers and bike storage.

The estimated project cost is $17.8 million.

Other funding includes roughly $10.65 million in state developer's tax credits, a $700,000 San Diego Housing Commission loan, a $310,000 private loan and a $114,000 Regional Transportation Congestion Management Improvement Program waiver.