Governor Gavin Newsom announces that the state has identified five state-owned sites for affordable housing, including Atascadero.
The site is just outside the Atascadero State Hospital.
The California Department of Housing and Community Development and the Department of General Services are looking to develop the properties.
Atascadero Community Development director Phil Dunsmore says, “The state just issued an RFQ, which is really inviting proposals to come into this vacant property that they’ve declared surplus.”
ECHO’s Wendy Lewis says “This announcement means so much to the people that we are working tirelessly to try to get back into housing because housing is key to helping solve the homelessness price crisis.”
The site is defined as a ‘buffer zone’ just outside the Atascadero State Hospital along El Camino Real.
