The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) joined the Oakland community at the groundbreaking of Friendship Senior Housing, a new affordable housing development for seniors in the Bay Area.

The four-story infill development will provide 50 homes for extremely low-income residents, with supportive homes set aside for seniors experiencing homelessness.

Friendship Senior Housing is supported by more than $15 million from HCD’s Multifamily Housing, Accelerator, and No Place Like Home programs. With the passage of Proposition 1, more funding will be allocated for the building of supportive homes for California’s most vulnerable residents.

A project of Community Housing Development Corporation and Friendship Christian Center, the complex will have various on-site amenities including supportive services, a community room, kitchen, computer room, lobby, parking garage, and courtyard. The development also is close to transit, parks, businesses, a library, and vital services.