'It's been a blessing': Affordable apartments officially open in Sanger

SANGER, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - After a twelvemonth and a fractional of construction, signifier 1 of the caller 72-unit rental assemblage called Cherry Crossing successful Sanger is complete. 

Self-help Enterprises built the affordable apartments to assistance code the region's increasing lodging needs. On Friday, a fresh commencement and caller beginnings capable the aerial connected Cherry Avenue, arsenic leaders ended up cutting the ribbon. 

Resident of Cherry Crossing, Jasmin Paz, says this is simply a blessing. She present calls this assemblage home, on with her 14-year-old son.

"It's been a blessing to me. I'm precise appreciative for this accidental and this caller journey," Paz said. "Sanger's similar my community, I grew up here, my family's here, and I'm conscionable gladsome that I'm inactive here."

Cherry Crossing offers one, two, and three-bedroom units starting astatine $450 a month.

Affordable lodging anyplace successful the United States is hard to travel by, but for the President and CEO of Self-help Enterprises, Tom Collishaw, helium is moving time by time to marque it a reality.

"Eighteen of these units of these 72 units are really reserved for families who enactment successful agriculture. They are indispensable workers, and they conflict to find affordable places to rent," helium said. 

But getting to this constituent wasn't without its challenges. He says it took public, private, and assistance backing to marque it happen.

"It's hard to get backing for these kinds of projects successful communities the size of Sanger. It's precise complicated," Collishaw said.

"We person a 2nd phase, and astatine afloat buildout. This task volition really see 136 units of affordable housing, permanently affordable housing," Collishaw said.

While they're inactive moving connected financing for signifier 2, they anticipation to commencement operation successful 2027.