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Council approves joint Homekey application for motel-to-supportive-housing conversion at North Texas Street
Summary
The City Council unanimously authorized a joint application with Danco Communities to apply for Homekey Plus funding to convert the 3331 North Texas Street motel into permanent supportive housing, potentially adding up to 50–100 units and leveraging state capital for long-term operations and services.
Senior housing project manager Latonya Torones presented a request for the City to submit a joint application with Danco Communities to the California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) under the Homekey Plus program. Torones said the proposed project is a motel conversion at 3331 North Texas Street that would provide permanent supportive housing for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness and could leverage roughly $23 million in Homekey funding.
Torones outlined reasons the city is supporting the application: the project would reduce Fairfield’s unhoused population, help the city meet Regional Housing Needs Allocation goals, and leverage a modest city contribution (the council previously approved approximately $1 million) into significantly greater state funding. Torones…
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