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EAST PALO ALTO, CA – Hayward based nonprofit Eden Housing and East Palo Alto Community Alliance and Neighborhood Development Organization (EPACANDO) will celebrate the Groundbreaking of Light Tree Apartments’ Renovation on Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 10:00am. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Eden and EPACANDO will launch a virtual celebration featuring instrumental stakeholders and partners. The virtual celebration will premiere on Eden’s YouTube channel. Light Tree Apartments is a 94-apartment family community in East Palo Alto, originally constructed in 1966. In 2020, Eden Housing entered into a joint-venture partnership with EPACANDO and obtained the financing necessary to redevelop the property. Upon completion, the renovated Light Tree Apartments will nearly double the number of affordable homes that exist on the site today, providing 185 affordable homes to low-income families, people with disabilities, formerly homeless individuals, and former foster youth.
“These ninety-four affordable homes have been a part of the East Palo Alto community for fifty years already, and now there are ninety-one more to come; remaining for another fifty years and beyond,” said Duane Bay, Executive Director of EPACANDO. “The name Light Tree is appropriately evocative of rootedness and hope.” |