The City of Long Beach, through its nonprofit Long Beach Housing Development Company, is moving forward with plans to acquire the final property for the development of new affordable housing in the 1900 block of Long Beach Boulevard. This is immediately adjacent to the newly constructed Olive Villas mixed-income community, another affordable housing development created last year by the city.
Long Beach plans to acquire almost one acre of land and spend approximately $3 million of redevelopment funds required by state law to be spent on affordable housing. Although plans still need to be formulated, the development will be a mixed-income, for-sale housing development. The units will include both affordable and market-rate units, helping the city meet its regional housing needs assessment allocations designated by the Southern California Association of Governments.
The area targets perhaps some of the most blighted and crime-impacted areas on Long Beach Boulevard, including the Azteca Bar, a dilapidated auto-repair business and a building vacated more than two years ago. The properties are located along the east side of the 1900 block of Long Beach Boulevard.
(above) This dilapidated auto-repair lot is part of the blighted area that is being considered for affordable residential development.
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