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Units arrive at Welcome Home Village housing project in SLO

February 10, 2026

Welcome Home Village in San Luis Obispo, photo by Jeff Specht

By KAREN VELIE

After years of planning and several delays, the Welcome Home Village housing project in San Luis Obispo is taking shape. By May, residents are expected to start moving in to the transitional housing project.

In June 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced plans to provide SLO County with $13.4 million “to serve 200 people from an encampment in a flood and fire danger zone.” The goal was to move people out of encampments and into housing.

The SLO County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 in July 2023 to award the funds to the City of San Luis Obispo to help reduce encampments in a flood and fire danger zone near the segment of the Bob Jones Bike Trail parallel to South Higuera Street in San Luis Obispo.

However, plans changed with the number of housing units reduced from 80 to 54 and the location moved to the corner of Johnson Avenue and Bishop Street. The transitional housing project is located in the Bishop Medical Center parking lot.

Last week, half of the manufactured homes were on site with cranes lowering them into place.

 


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This may well be the ugliest and most ill-planned housing development I have ever seen! No private developer would EVER be permitted to do this. Don’t any of these so-called urban planners know that cramming poor people with major social problems into tiny units on top of one another


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leads to increased crime and all the problems these planners thought they were solving? “Housing first” is a wonderful concept but it doesn’t work, because the ancillary services needed are not provided consistently and long term. Now we have new a slum with a view. Can’t wait to see what else our beloved BOS and city come up with next.


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I’m setting up a bet line:


1st fire to consume a unit-


Closest date of 1st drug related arrest-


Closest date of 1st alcohol related arrest-


1st call for battery on another person-


1st call for a weapon being used-


1st car in the nearby parking lot to be vandalized/broken into-


1st dumpster fire-


1st runaway shopping cart down Johnson Ave.-


And last, but not least…1st domestic violence call.


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Don’t forget a bet on how many “regulars” head back down to the precious Bob Jones creek and campground later!


4

Burning through the last of the Nepo NGO money?

Absolutely hilarious! How they can do it and keep a straight face beats me.

Look! We’re helping! Lol


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Making life easier for drug dealers, simple one stop shop


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$13,400,000 for 54 units, so only $248,148 per unit, how to tell something is a government project without saying its a government project.


55

The Homeless Industrial Complex overhead is likely most of it.


8

Just give out luxury Class A RV’s, cheaper option.


10

If you can do better than you needed to bid on the project and show us how it’s done.


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Sorry I.R.! You gotta be part of their club to “bid” or propose anything.

Remember- housing the homeless is the secondary mission! $$$


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I can’t wait for all the encampment homeless to be shipped to a location a couple blocks from me.


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Many of these are ex-cons released from CMC, so they are considered “local.” They don’t have to return to their county of commitment anymore.


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