Sacramento Business Journal: Homeless Housing Project in North Highlands Completed After State Funding Boost

An adaptive reuse project in North Highlands to provide residential care for people with mental illness was about half done when first the Covid-19 pandemic, then soaring construction costs, stopped progress.

Matthew Brown, chief information officer at developer Psynergy Programs Inc., said in 2021, his company wasn’t sure what to do next about Vista Esperanza, at 5240 Jackson St.

“I think we would still be in limbo,” he said, were it not for a new state program for “community care expansion” announced in late 2022. Vista Esperanza, which provides residential care services for people with mental illness who’ve aged out of services that end at 59 and 1/2 years old, was one of the first applicants for the funding, which came out of a state bill to provide interagency assistance in helping people without housing.

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