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LA County approves bonds for affordable housing in Palmdale

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LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors at its Feb. 18 meeting issued $35 million in housing bonds to build 101 units as part of the Juniper Grove apartment complex in Palmdale.

“This funding represents more than just bonds for housing; this is an investment into our Antelope Valley communities for people in need,” Supervisor Kathryn Barger said in a news release. “I am grateful to the city of Palmdale, Meta Housing Corporation and the other stakeholders who have worked to make this vital project a reality.”

Meta Housing Corporation is coordinating the project and will receive the funds, which will be allocated through the Los Angeles County Development Authority from the Los Angeles County Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

The project is located at the southeast corner of Division Street and Avenue R in Palmdale and will consist of 49 one-bedroom units, 27 two-bedroom units and 25 three-bedroom units. There will be 50 units reserved for households with incomes that do not exceed 30 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI) for the Los Angeles Metropolitan Statistical Area (this is adjusted for household size, as determined by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development).

There are five units reserved for households with incomes that do not exceed 50 percent of the AMI and 44 units reserved for households with incomes that do not exceed 60 percent of the AMI.

There will be 49 units occupied by people who are formerly homeless and those with mental illness. The two remaining units will be designated for managers. These affordability requirements will remain in effect for 55 years.

[Information via news release from Los Angeles County.]

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20 comments for "LA County approves bonds for affordable housing in Palmdale"

  1. The High Desert is currently the only area that is available for any Sect. 8. They send all those up to the area and even made an agreement with MetroLink to run 7 days a week to accommodate the Sect. 8. I just bout up there and now I really wish I had not!

  2. who will be overseeing the homeless to make sure they have help adjusting and keeping up the property? is there a stipulation that they find employment? what requirements are in place to ensure those with mental illness will have ongoing counseling, help with living well independently? To hand over 49 units without backup assistance and regulations for these populations is a waste of time, money, lacking in true compassion and followthrough for successful homeowning.

  3. Give me a break! You guys are whining over this while you send all your Sec.8 users over here to victorville. All hell has broken lose and you ask all these hoodlums where they’re coming from and half say Lancaster/palmdale and the other half are saying Riverside and Pomona.

    You guys have ruined the whole Victor valley area, hesperia, Apple valley.

  4. Haven’t we learned our lessons about government funded projects. Generational patterns of dysfunction all paid for by the tax payer. Once they are built we will be spending more and more money on them forever. Just a huge resource sucker.

  5. My name is ….. ……, I am 55, single quiet, reliable and receive SSI in the amount of $911mo and currently live in ……… CA in a rooming house with my ADA support dog the house is unsafe and not very clean or even safe for mail to come..
    I am and have been in a power wheelchair for the past six years I have
    I am looking to move as soon as possible as well as start school this upcoming year or sooner and I am hoping to have my own private space to study a secure place to keep my computer and studying materials.

  6. Why isn’t just say housing in sanctuary City for illegal immigrants everyone else has to pay a higher price

    • Right! I came to the AV to buy a house after renting in the SFV for 46yrs. My family migrated further North for affordability.

      In 2017, I qualified for a few condos in Santa Clarita…..but was out bidded.

    • you just won the lottery,or have some great income or own rental property and justifying the high rent because you definitely are not a senior disabled retired veteran on SSI income

    • Housing in the AV may be affordable compared to the coastal cities, but it is not “affordable” for people on assistance, despite what many disgruntled AV Republican natives may think.

      Ridgecrest, Mojave and California City are affordable.

      Barstow, Needles and Victorville-Adelanto are affordable. Most of Las Vegas is affordable.

  8. There is alot of low income housing already here but you have to pass the credit check and background check which most homeless people dont pass. So how can someone qualify?

  9. The projects being built in the crown jewel, (Palmdale) of the upper desert. Just another, in a mile long list of reasons to leave Commiefornia,,,, I know I sure am!

    • Or Agoura Hills? Westlake Village? Malibu? Toluca Lake? Bel Air? La Canada-Flintridge? Arcadia? San Marino? Burbank?

      Yeah, those are the places that need it most, but they never build any there.

  11. It’s funny how they never build anything like this in Santa Clarita, Toluca Lake, Agoura Hills, Malibu, Calabassas, Marina Del Rey, Manhattan Beach, LaCanada-Flintridge or Bel Air, right?

    • Exactly! Because they aren’t having it in their neighborhoods. If you go to townhall mtgs you’ll find out. Folks don’t want there property values to drop…because that’s what happens when you build PROJECTS!

    • I moved here 4 years ago In Hope to have my own house I do but I feel like all this section 8 is destroying palmdale they need to take it somewhere else I have a neighborhood that get section 8 they sell drug police is at there house all the time and they fight in the middle of the street drive like crazy when they pass by and we can’t get rid off them. Why do we have to put up with them put them in Calabasas or find a way to control them start testing for drug us.

      • Talk to the homeowner that is renting out the property and accepting Section 8.
        The only reasons I have heard for accepting Section 8 is guaranteed to be paid and recover costs for damages.