Hoyle highlights Florence affordable housing project with on-site childcare
Hoyle toured Elm Park Apartments in Florence, a 32-home income-restricted project with on-site child care that is expected to add 50% more child care slots.
Congresswoman Val Hoyle toured Elm Park Apartments in Florence and pointed to a project built around two shortages working families feel at once: affordable rent and child care. The five-building, 32-unit property at 1051 Greenwood Street pairs income-restricted homes with the Elm Park Early Learning Center, and the child care component is expected to increase Florence’s child care slots by 50%.
The apartments are being developed as a brand new affordable housing community with 1-, 2- and 3-bedroom homes, according to Cascade Management. For Florence employers, the setup matters because it gives local workers a place to live in town while also putting child care on-site, reducing the daily scramble that can push employees to pass on jobs, cut hours, or commute longer distances for both housing and care.
Our Coastal Village, Inc., which describes itself as a 501(c)(3) public charity focused on affordable housing on the central Oregon coast, said Elm Park grew out of 2007 community meetings tied to the proposed Fisterra Planned Unit Development. Founder Layne Morrill learned through that process that Florence had a chronic shortage of low-income housing, a problem the nonprofit has tried to answer through earlier projects including Aqua Vista Square, Fisterra Gardens Townhomes, and Oak Manor Apartments.
The city sold the property for the affordable housing and learning center project, a step reported in May 2024. Elm Park now adds another larger affordable-housing option in Florence at a time when the regional shortage remains visible elsewhere on the coast. In June 2024, KLCC reported that a Yachats affordable-housing developer had finished a 24-unit Florence complex and was planning two more projects.
Hoyle represents Oregon’s 4th Congressional District, and her office said she had requested more than $28 million in funding for 15 local community projects, including housing. That federal backdrop is part of the financial environment surrounding projects like Elm Park, where local land use, nonprofit development and child care infrastructure are being combined in one site.
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