Funding Partners:

County of San Luis Obispo
Enterprise Community Partners
Federal Home Load Bank of San Francisco
(Coast National Bank - AHP)
State Department of Housing & Community Development
Multi Family Housing Program and Joe Serna Jr. Farm Worker Grant Program
Wells Fargo Bank

Development Partners:

General Contractor: Carroll Building Company, Inc.
Architect: Main Street Architects
Engineer: North Coast Engineering

In 1989 it was discovered that Unocal's underground pipes had been leaking petroleum products into the soil. Unocal publicly accepted responsibility for the contamination. The clean-up required some Avila Beach residents to relocate. Former SLO County Supervisor Peg Pinard negotiated with Unocal to include a development of affordable housing units as part of the clean up. Peoples' Self-Help Housing was selected as the affordable housing developer.

“We are very pleased to be a part of the overall effort to improve the Avila Beach community by providing 29 new, well designed affordable apartments,” said Jeanette Duncan, Executive Director, Peoples’ Self-Help Housing.

Anticipated completion for this development is expected to be in the fall of 2008.