{"id":394758,"date":"2026-07-11T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394758\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T14:44:17","slug":"a-former-homeless-shelter-will-soon-become-permanent-affordable-housing-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/394758\/","title":{"rendered":"A former homeless shelter will soon become permanent affordable housing in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRESNO, Calif. \u2013 Leaders broke ground on a new housing project along Highway 99 in June to increase the supply of affordable units in Fresno.<\/p>\n

The complex is named \u201cDavu Village,\u201d and it\u2019s located at the former site of the Golden State Triage Center along Parkway Drive, just west of Highway 99.<\/p>\n

The triage center was a temporary shelter for people experiencing homelessness. It will now offer 62 permanent affordable apartment units by 2027.<\/p>\n

“We’re surrounded by poverty, and when there’s poverty, there’s always a demand for housing, even substandard housing, and there’s always a profit to be made, even by those who put the least ability to pay,” Miguel Arias, Fresno City Councilmember for District 3, said at a ground breaking ceremony on June 24.<\/p>\n

A study published late last year by the non-profit Central Valley Community Foundation showed the rate of concentrated poverty in Fresno has dropped by 68%<\/a> since 2014. And the state under Gov. Gavin Newsom has invested heavily in moving people off the street and into transitional housing.<\/p>\n

Fresno leaders say the construction of new housing will help continue supporting those efforts.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavu\u201d means \u201cnew beginning\u201d in Somali culture.<\/p>\n

Kristine Morgan, a communications manager for the Fresno Housing Authority, said that Davu Village is projected to be completed by the fall of 2027.<\/p>\n

It has a price tag of over $60 million \u2013 including development and construction.<\/p>\n

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Israel Cardona Hernandez\/KVPR<\/p>\n

A rendering of Davu Village as it will appear upon completion in the fall of 2027, captured at the groundbreaking ceremony on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

\"Photo<\/p>\n

Israel Cardona Hernandez\/KVPR<\/p>\n

Photo of the front of the current Golden State Triage Center, located next to Highway 99 where Davu Village will be built, taken on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

Davu Village is funded by multiple grants, including a $25 million award in federal and state tax credits, and a nearly $7 million investment from the City of Fresno.<\/p>\n

Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer said more than 12,500 previously unhoused people have received emergency shelter since 2021, “half of whom have successfully exited a life of homelessness,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cHousing just doesn\u2019t happen on its own, it takes intentionality,\u201d he said. “There must be a place for them [unhoused people] to exit to.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davu Village will exist along Parkway Drive, long a hotbed of homelessness and crime, but which has seen a transformation through state and local efforts.<\/p>\n

Dyer said Davu Village is part of the area’s \u201crebirth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. \u2013 Leaders broke ground on a new housing project along Highway 99 in June to increase…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[5242,1053,151865,112,57009,114,17622,113,123508,1825,1493,61177,1011],"class_list":["post-394758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-affordable","tag-city-of-fresno","tag-davu-village","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-city","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-housing-authority","tag-fresno-news","tag-groundbreaking","tag-highway-99","tag-homelessness","tag-houses","tag-housing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394758","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=394758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}