The state has awarded $45 million to San Diego to support the creation of more than 1,180 affordable homes through the state’s Catalytic Infill Infrastructure Grant.  

Under the leadership of Gov. Gavin Newsom and this Legislature, the State of California has been a committed partner for cities like ours that want to be part of the solution to the housing crisis. This major state grant represents another major step forward for San Diego.  

We will put this funding to work as quickly as possible to build out the community infrastructure necessary to support the creation of nearly 1,200 new homes for San Diegans looking for an affordable place to live. 

The state funds will support developments in downtown San Diego and southern San Diego by funding things like site preparation, concrete paving and traffic signals, plus new residential parking for the housing developments, and transit investments to build better pathways, bus shelters, and bike facilities nearby.  

This grant program works to help fill gaps in financing specifically for infrastructure and improvements that turn existing buildings into new affordable housing projects with the necessary infrastructure and amenities to support them.  

The San Diego projects funded through this innovative grant program build upon policies pioneered by the City of San Diego to address housing affordability, including using surplus state land, building on underutilized land at a trolley stop owned by the Metropolitan Transit System, and leveraging a local community land trust.  

These funds represent yet another way in which the City of San Diego and the San Diego Housing Commission continue forward on our comprehensive approach to creating more housing that San Diegans can afford. 
 

Rendering of Palm City Transit Village project by Ben Arcia at McCullough Landscape Architecture. 

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