Another Win for Permanent Supportive Housing

Cypress provides 62 apartments for residents earning an average of 30% to 40% of the area median income.

SAN DIEGO—Affirmed Housing celebrates the grand opening today of Cypress, the second Downtown San Diego housing development that serves homeless individuals with special needs to be completed within the last few months. The project, located at 1435 Imperial Ave. in Downtown San Diego, is a permanent-supportive-housing development that pairs the latest urban design with affordability for this especially vulnerable population.

Cypress is the second permanent-supportive-housing community to be completed in Downtown San Diego within the last few months. As GlobeSt.com reported in May, Wakeland Housing and Development Corp. completed construction on Atmosphere, a high-rise project that includes 154 units of affordable housing for families earning between 30% and 60% of the San Diego area median income, plus 51 units of permanent supportive housing specifically for adults requiring additional support due to homelessness, mental disability or age. The community’s first tenants began to move in in the spring.