California Department of Housing and Community Development
11/12/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 11/12/2025 14:39
Affordable Housing for Youth and Families Exiting Homelessness Opens in Mountain View (Video)
A former hotel that was transformed into permanent supportive housing is now open to residents in Santa Clara County. The Heartwood Apartments in the City of Mountain View provides safe affordable homes for Transitional Age Youth and families experiencing or at risk of chronic homelessness.
A project of Jamboree Housing, The Heartwood is a mixed-use, multifamily affordable housing community with 49 homes for low-income families and individuals, including 13 homes reserved for vulnerable young adults ages 18-25.
The Heartwood was supported by $16.5 million from HCD's Homekey program, as well as contributions from the County of Santa Clara and the City of Mountain View. Homekey created opportunities for local jurisdictions to build or rehabilitate properties into permanent supportive housing for the lowest-income Californians, offering a range of resident support services like job training, mental health care, and addiction assistance programs. The highly successful program served as a model for the Homekey+ program made possible by voter approval of Proposition 1 in 2024.
"The Heartwood Apartments offer so much more than just a roof and a bed to extremely low-income young adults and members of the Mountain View community who are struggling with housing security," said HCD Director Gustavo Velasquez. "They offer programs and support to help set people up for employment and sustained success-a model we want to continue to replicate across the state as we move into the new era of Homekey+, thanks to voter approval of Proposition 1."
"If not for Homekey and other funding sources like it, this project quite simply would not have happened. You would have 50 people who were living on the streets," said Michael Massie, Executive Vice President of Jamboree Housing. "The more housing that we can build that is affordable and accessible to everyone, the healthier the whole community will be."
For more information about this project, watch the video below.
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