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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - North Fresno is location to the city's newest affordable lodging development.
The ribbon was chopped connected Tuesday to formally uncover the caller Avalon Commons lodging improvement successful northbound Fresno adjacent North Chestnut Avenue and East Alluvial Avenue, the archetypal successful northbound Fresno. Mayor Jerry Dyer says it's nary concealed that the state is successful the mediate of a lodging crisis.
"We weren't intentional astir processing lodging astatine a clip we should person truthful we got behind," said Dyer, "and that means that the request has acold exceeded the proviso wrong our communities."
Dyer says the outgo of lodging has gone up - portion income level has remained the same.
"That is wherefore we person truthful galore radical retired connected our streets contiguous who are homeless," Dyer said. "We are doing everything we tin successful the City of Fresno to summation the fig of affordable lodging units."
According to Dyer, 4 years agone the City of Fresno was progressive successful little than 100 affordable lodging units: present the metropolis has subsidized and facilitated the improvement of implicit 1,500 affordable lodging units.
Dyer says this improvement has acceptable a caller precedent for wherever affordable lodging units tin beryllium recovered successful the city.
"Traditionally affordable lodging is recovered successful the confederate portion of the metropolis due to the fact that we person radical that unrecorded successful neighborhoods that accidental not successful my backyard," Dyer said. "What's unsocial astir this task is that we person neighbors that were consenting not lone to judge but clasp affordable lodging successful this vicinity - including Councilmember Gary Bredefeld."
The Fresno Housing Authority's Tyrone Roderick Williams says having affordable workforce lodging successful northbound Fresno is simply a cardinal constituent to creating caller opportunities passim the city.
"This marks an accidental to beryllium astatine fantabulous schools, large enactment environments, transit located nearby," Williams said.
Williams says the Avalon Commons improvement volition beryllium an summation that neighbors tin beryllium arrogant of accepting and embracing.
"When Fresno Housing comes into the neighborhood, your spot values don't spell down. They spell up due to the fact that of the prime of the developments that we bring," Williams said.
