{"id":213382,"date":"2026-03-10T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213382\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T17:14:08","slug":"fresno-housing-finds-new-use-for-shuttered-shelter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213382\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Housing Finds New Use for Shuttered Shelter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Fresno emergency shelter that shut down in December 2025 due to lack of funds will find new life as a recuperative care facility.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs needs evolve, our responsibility is to ensure properties like this continue serving the community in ways that create stability, dignity, and opportunity for those who need it most.\u201d\u00a0\u2014 Tyrone Roderick Williams, CEO of Fresno Housing\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fresno Housing announced Monday that RH Community Builders will take over use of the former Journey Home property in southwest Fresno. According to Fresno Housing, the property will be transformed into a recuperative care facility \u2014 a site where homeless medical patients can recover from hospital treatment.<\/p>\n

Fresno Housing will retain ownership of the property, which at one time was a Welcome Inn motel.<\/p>\n

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Tyrone Roderick Williams, CEO of Fresno Housing, said the lease agreement with RH means the building can once again be used to serve vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis work is about more than buildings,\u201d Roderick Williams said. \u201cFor decades, Fresno Housing has been part of the solution to housing instability in our region. As needs evolve, our responsibility is to ensure properties like this continue serving the community in ways that create stability, dignity, and opportunity for those who need it most.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medicaid Changes Could Affect Recuperative Care Availability<\/p>\n

Negotiations for the 150-bed facility \u2014 called Evolve Path \u2014 began in summer 2025 when the two entities knew the building would be soon vacant, said Katie Wilbur, executive director of RH Community Builders.<\/p>\n

RH also took over operations of another recuperative care site at 4080 N. Blackstone after operator Sol Housing lost its contract with CalViva<\/a>. That recuperative care facility has now closed with those still needing care moved to another RH property, Wilbur said.<\/p>\n

At Evolve Path, patients recovering from treatments or procedures. Wilbur said they will have a nurse practitioner and LVNs on staff. As an affordable housing developer, RH also has a case management team to work on permanent housing plans.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndividuals who have been receiving hospital-level care and were homeless prior to going into the hospital are able to be discharged there when they no longer need hospital-level care, but their ailments or injuries wouldn\u2019t heal appropriately if they return directly to literal homelessness,\u201d Wilbur said.<\/p>\n

Typically, tenants get 90 days approved from their Medi-Cal plans, but those stays can be increased depending on the level of care needed.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s CalAIM Medi-Cal program kept recuperative care coverage largely intact in the face of drastic changes to Medicaid in 2025 by President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. However, Wilbur does expect changes later in the year, when the waiver expires.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do expect the next generation to look different, but nobody really knows what that looks like,\u201d Wilbur said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fresno emergency shelter that shut down in December 2025 due to lack of funds will find new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-213382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}