Project Homekey

About the Program

Category: Human Services (Best in Category)

Year: 2021

In November 2020 the California Department of Housing and Community Development awarded the County of Sonoma Project Homekey grant funding for the purchase of the Hotel Azura in Santa Rosa and the Sebastopol Inn in Sebastopol. The Hotel Azura which has been renamed the Mickey Zane Place, offers 44 recently remodeled rooms located in the center of Santa Rosa and the Sebastopol Inn, renamed Elderberry Commons has 31 rooms. The State will allow counties who have purchased these properties to continue using them for permanent supportive housing after the COVID-19 pandemic.These locations provide the County with the opportunity to bring some of the most vulnerable homeless individuals into permanent supportive housing. Individuals in this category include those who are over the age of 65 years and/or with chronic or acute health conditions such as cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), liver disease and individuals who are immunocompromised.Many of the future residents will come from the Non-Congregate Site (NCS) at the Astro Hotel and trailers located at the Sonoma County Fairgrounds in Santa Rosa and Redwood Alliance in Occidental. Successful residents will have graduated through the sheltering System of Care and enrolled in ACCESS Sonoma County.