70 affordable housing units open in Oakhurst

OAKHURST, Calif. (KFSN) -- The lodging situation touches each portion of the state, including our upland communities.

For years, getting much affordable lodging successful Oakhurst has been a challenge, but today, a large measurement forward.

A ribbon cutting was held astatine River Grove apartments connected Tuesday.

The analyzable is present location to Jessica Turner, who was surviving successful her car conscionable a twelvemonth ago.

"I came from a home unit traumatic encephalon wounded and intersexual battle that made maine person a tense breakdown," said Turner.

Now she's 11 months sober and for the archetypal clip successful a agelong time, has a spot to telephone home.

"I unfastened my windows due to the fact that I person them. I'm capable to crook connected a airy due to the fact that I person those," said Turner.

Turner lives successful 1 of the 70 units astatine River Grove successful Oakhurst, built by Self-Help Enterprises.

Madera County Supervisor Tom Wheeler, a longtime champion of the project, was besides astatine the ribbon cutting.

"Over the past astatine slightest 10 years that I was successful bureau astir every, astatine slightest each week, astir apt each different time radical would telephone maine 'I request immoderate spot to unrecorded I'm being booted, there's nary spot to live, the apartments are truthful expensive,'" said Wheeler.

An outspoken advocate, the assemblage halfway astatine River Grove present bears his name.

"I can't adjacent enactment words to it. It means everything to maine and the radical that I grew up with here," said Wheeler.

The 2nd signifier of the improvement volition bring 50 much units to River Grove. Construction volition statesman this summer. It's expected to beryllium implicit successful 2026.

Anyone funny successful applying for a portion should sojourn the leasing bureau astatine 39963 Sierra Way successful Oakhurst.

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