First modular housing complex coming to northwest Fresno

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Nearly 100 caller affordable modular units are coming to Northwest Fresno.

Wednesday's groundbreaking marks a large milestone for the caller 'Welcome Home Campus.'

It's the archetypal modular lodging improvement for the metropolis and volition person 96 units adjacent Polk and Sierra, with 60 of the spaces for younker betwixt 18 and 24 years old.

"These tin beryllium kids that are homeless, that are astatine hazard for homelessness, that are getting acceptable to property retired of the foster attraction strategy -- and past we are going to person 35 units that are inactive acceptable speech for the wide stateless population," said Valley Teen Ranch CEO Andrea Evans.

Evans says determination volition beryllium 1 on-site manager who volition unrecorded astatine the improvement afloat time, arsenic good arsenic lawsuit managers and societal workers to assistance supply support.

"So galore kids person lived extremely, person been done a batch of trauma. I deliberation we are conscionable trying to beryllium a portion of that program to assistance them heal from it and springiness them that small spot of hope," said Evans.

In concern with the metropolis of Fresno - the enactment helped stitchery astir 25 cardinal dollars for the project.

Councilmember for the district, Mike Karbassi, says it volition assistance tackle homelessness successful a mode that's fractional the cost.

"Its rapidly lodging radical astatine an affordable terms for taxpayers, and I privation this exemplary successful Northwest Fresno, to spell passim the full city," said Karbassi.

Future tenants tin expect comfy accommodations, and adjacent a spot of luxury with stainless alloy appliances and quartz countertops..

The modular units are presently being manufactured successful Northern California and volition beryllium shipped into Fresno.

"One of the biggest benefits of modular operation is the information that we prevention truthful overmuch time," said Darren Seary with Optimum Modular Solutions.

"When the foundations are finished -- the modules volition arrive, and we'll spell from foundations from what volition look similar reasonably implicit buildings wrong conscionable a substance of days," said Seary.

You should commencement to spot those modular units being stacked connected the foundations by aboriginal July.

The analyzable is expected to beryllium acceptable earlier the extremity of the year, 1 of the quickest lodging developments built successful the city.

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