Affordable Housing, Kitchen & Resource Center Coming To Livermore

Livermore CA

12 April, 2022

4:04 PM

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LIVERMORE, CA — Permanent supportive housing and more resources for the unhoused will soon be available in Livermore. The city breaks ground Wednesday on Vineyard, a 24-unit permanent supportive housing development with a community kitchen and homeless resource center. "The project addresses a key priority for the City of Livermore, which is creating affordable housing with robust supportive services for people experiencing homelessness, and reflects core local values of collaboration, innovation, and serving the most vulnerable in our community," Mayor Bob Woerner said. Vineyard apartments include studio and one-bedroom apartments for households with incomes below 30 percent of area median income. Located near downtown, Vineyard will have wheelchair-accessible units, an on-site manager's unit and a community room and will be shared with a community-serving kitchen run by Open Heart Kitchen and a homeless resource center. The property has showers, laundry facilities, mailboxes, an inclement weather homeless shelter, offices for case management and employment services and a primary healthcare van. Funding partners include the City of Livermore, Alameda County Measure A1, California No Place Like Home, Livermore Housing Authority, JP Morgan Chase, City of Dublin, City of Pleasanton and Enterprise Community Investment, Inc. "The Vineyard project is the culmination of years of partnership and planning between our localnonprofit service providers, faith based and community organizations, neighboring cities, and theCounty," Woerner said. The groundbreaking is at 450 North Livermore Avenue from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Follow this link for more information about Vineyard.