Fresno County gets $27 million for 88-home supportive housing project

Fresno County won just over $27 million for Sendero Commons, an 88-home supportive housing project that will include one manager’s unit and reserve 45 units for veterans. The scale matters: Fresno County had 4,305 people experiencing homelessness in 2024, and the Fresno City & County/Madera continuum counted 2,758 people unsheltered, so Sendero Commons amounts to roughly 2% of the county total and about 3% of the unsheltered regional count.

The Fresno award was part of a May 12 state announcement that sent $111 million in Proposition 1 money to six communities and created 307 new permanent supportive homes statewide. With that round, Homekey+ has now allocated $858.8 million to 50 projects that will produce 2,471 affordable homes, including 620 for veterans, as state leaders point to a 9% drop in unsheltered homelessness last year as evidence the strategy is working.

Sendero Commons is being developed by the County of Fresno with UP Holdings California, LLC and RHCB Development LP. The project also had a $10 million No Place Like Home award in 2022, showing that the Fresno effort has been building toward this moment for years rather than arriving as a one-off grant.

Prop 1, approved by voters in 2024, is a $6.4 billion Behavioral Health Bond meant to fund housing, services and treatment for veterans and people experiencing or at risk of homelessness with mental health or substance use challenges. State officials say the bond is estimated to support 6,800 residential treatment beds and 26,700 outpatient treatment slots when fully awarded, which puts Fresno’s 88-home project in perspective: useful for the people who get keys, but far too small to close the county’s housing gap on its own.