The success of the City’s quick-build communities has reduced street (unsheltered) homelessness in San José even as the aggregate numbers of unhoused residents––sheltered and unsheltered––has risen statewide. A total of 677 individuals have been housed and helped at San José’s quick-build interim housing communities the past two-and-a-half years, of which 212 individuals including families have successfully moved on to either transitional or permanent housing.
These quick-build apartment sites also provide residents with assistance in accessing public benefit programs, healthcare, and employment preparation. The City’s quick-build interim housing communities provide residents with stable and dignified shelter with private bedrooms, ensuite bathrooms, and shared laundry and kitchen amenities. Nimble local solutions to homelessness like Evans Lane face the threat of shutdown in cities throughout California if the State does not continue level funding of its Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) program to local communities.Ĭonstructed in less than a year and costing less than $66,000 per resident bed, Evans Lane provides homes for families with a capacity for 121 residents and is one of three quick-build modular communities built at the beginning of the pandemic that provide a total of 317 resident beds for formerly unhoused individuals and families. Esmeralda Bautista, Deputy Communications Director, 510.631.6934, JOSÉ, CA - Today, Mayor Sam Liccardo and Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Evan Low toured the Evans Lane quick-build modular interim housing community for families to highlight the efficiency and affordability of this local solution to homelessness.
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