SACRAMENTO — The City of Sacramento needs to approve more than 39,000 new homes in the next four years to meet California’s housing requirements. City leaders just helped break ground on more than 200 new affordable units in downtown.
The project is called the Monarch, a five-story apartment complex with 241 low-income units located at R and 8th streets. It will sit on land that was once part of the city’s industrial past. Now it’s Sacramento’s latest effort to create more affordable homes.
Thirty of those units will be reserved for people formerly living on the streets, and others will be offered to downtown low-wage workers…