In the past three years, the nonprofit DignityMoves has built and opened three villages of transitional housing — using modular housing — throughout the county for people who are homeless. This Tuesday, the county supervisors unanimously approved a fourth — this one exclusively for families — to be located on county-owned property near the Calle Real Campus.
This one will be built on about an acre of land next to the Children and Family Services building and include 32 housing units, the largest being 700-square-foot two-bedroom units built in a duplex style and the smallest being studio apartments.
This project will differ in many key respects from any of the three prior DignityMoves projects. Because the units are built for families, all units will come with bathrooms and kitchens included, not to mention some family living space; in the other projects, there are communal bathrooms, and food is prepared offsite and then brought in…