image: courtesy of rcdhousing.org via City of Concord
Ground has been broken on an affordable housing project on Galindo St., across from the Concord Police Department.
The project, known as the “Rick Judd Commons” is located at 1315 Galindo Street, and will provide 62 new affordable apartments for small families and individuals.
One-, two- and three-bedroom units will be available in this development for individuals and families earning between 30 – 60% of the area median income. 13 units will also be set aside for formerly homeless households with disabilities, according to Resources for Community Development (RCD).
The new affordable housing community is named after Rick Judd, a long-standing member of RCD’s Board of Directors from 2004 until his passing in 2021.
The property, according to RCD, will include a large, outdoor terrace, multipurpose community room with full kitchen, indoor bicycle storage area, on-site property management, and supportive services programming.
Here’s what the site used to look like (below):
image: courtesy of google maps
Well,
I guess the bad guys won’t have far to go home after being arrested and released.
They can just jaywalk across the street.
Sad. It’ll be a flophouse within 5 years.
Crime scenes aren’t really processed after the evil Captain disbanded the CSI unit.
Drug dens and cat houses coming soon.
Like.
(No more bridges or tunnels for me!)
Those lots across Galindo from CPD have been dead for years, dead cars and dead people.
In other areas these are called “the projects” . Nothing good ever happens in them. You watch, this is just the first of many to come especially if they ever develope the Naval Weapons Station property. This one building should increase the crime rate in the downtown area significantly. Thank you city council, planning commission and any other group that had anything to do with this. What a bunch of idiots. They should have to live in this area and have to deal with the crime that they are creating by giving projects like this a green light.
Our state law makers are the main driver for low income projects . https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/09/28/california-to-build-more-housing-faster/
Be careful making left turns near Concord Police Department.
The Projects come to Concord. I don’t know what the solution is but spending our way out of poverty hasn’t worked for the last 50 years so it probably won’t work now. Glad I moved out of Concord.
Yay, an “indoor bicycle storage area”!! So much easier to conceal stolen bikes. This development offers so many opportunities to keep turning our city into a dump.
Well we’re movin’ on up!
To a deluxe apartment in the sky
Movin’ on up
Yeah we’re movin’ on up
We finally got a piece
Of the pie.
This whole country is out of whack. The standard or cost of living is about three times what it should be. There was a lot of unemployment prior to the pandemic and it was mainly because everything that needed to be done was getting done and no new hires needed.
(Mayor, we need paragraph breaks, can’t believe the software doesn’t support them)
I see nothing wrong with lower income housing. You all grouse about the homeless and sure there are some shiftless among them but you’re ignoring the stories of people who have jobs but are living out of their cars because they can’t afford housing.
Greed now rules including our foreign policy as war contractors lick their chops at the thought of the Ukraine war continuing. This while corporation gleefully observe the influx of cheap and obedient workers hoping that big pharma has taken care of the expensive and subversive ones that they won’t need anymore.
It is hard to read this thing without wondering if the committee for this even asked opinions from the homeless of what they would like to see and what their needs really are. Some of the ideas expressed seem like the king giving their unwashed hordes some crumbs he thinks might help.
I think the future will look more like the Karl Urban (not Stallone) version of “Dredd” that way things are going.
@Captain Bebops – I was priced out of Piedmont and Pac Heights, so I opted for a second-tier suburb that I could afford over the hill.
Should I have bothered moving to a town I could afford, or should Piedmont’s taxpayers have built an “affordable,” “lower income” housing project for me and my delinquent kids?
Ever hear of Marin City? How about Cabrini Greens in Chicago? Stuyvestant Village in NYC? And , of course, from our illustrious neighbor (SF) the Potrero Projects that spawned that murderer OJ Simpson?! Now, Concord will become famous for the “RICK JUDD COMMONS” ghetto!!
This state is in the toilet and with more of the legislation of the Weenie-Wiener variety the flush handle is not needed!
Marin City runs circles around all but the best neighborhoods in concord bro!
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Scott Wiener (D-SF) introduced many housing bills which were signed into law by Gov. Newsom.
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The vast majority of these new laws usurp local zoning and discretionary decision-making by local governments.
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Wiener is a menace to sanity.
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Helping contra costa county meet their affordable housing marks so Danville San Ramon can remain exclusively upper class
Concord…The new Cesspool of CC county.
Nah… those distinctions remain with Richmond, Pittsburg, and Bay Point.
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What are those “distinctions,” @Exit 12A?
Schools are equally bad, as are the gangs, crime, litter and vagrancy.
Concord gots to play the game now if they want that fed money$$$
Our family has lived in our home in Concord for 50 years. We are fortunate that we were able to buy our first house using a VA loan w/ no down payment required. The small 3-bedroom house was on Nicholas Dr. just off of Monument. We lived in it for 3 years and then bought a larger home in the neighborhood near Saint Francis Church that we have lived in for the last 47 years. It saddens me to see how difficult/impossible it would be for a young couple starting out with a family to afford to buy a home like ours in this neighborhood that is so great for raising children. We are proud of our city of Concord and we are proud of the way that people of diverse backgrounds and ethnicity that live here with us respect and care for each other.
My wife and I think it is great that the Rick Judd Commons is being built and will provide a means for young families to have a home that they can stretch to afford to raise their families here in Concord.
I am also thankful that I can be confident that all our friends and acquaintances here in Concord do not share the negative views shared by so many of the nameless posters here on Claycord. A lot of the people that tend to comment here anonymously on Claycord do not represent the views and opinions of the vast majority of those that are our neighbors.
I understand where you’re coming from. I’ve lived in Concord most of my life also. But times have changed. In the 60’s, I walked to Monte Gardens Elementary every day. It was perfectly safe back then for children to be out by themselves. In the late 70’s, my friends and I went to clubs in Berkeley and San Francisco. We would park in back alleys and come back to our car at late hours without a care in the world. No one’s car was ever broken into. No one was ever harassed by freaks on the street. But it’s just not like that anymore. We’d like to think that everyone has good intentions, and
has the same morals that we had back in “our” day. But it isn’t like that anymore. I sincerely hope you’re right… that the people these developments bring in to our city are good people. But based on what I’ve seen over the years in the Bay Area, that will not be the outcome. Drugs, crime, lawlessness and filth seems to be the result. As you said, you worked for your first home then continued to work your way up. Pride of ownership in something you worked for is very different from just another freebie handed to you. The commenters on this blog aren’t negative – they’re realistic. They’ve seen it … been there done that, and they’re tired of money-hungry developers ruining our city. Rainbows and unicorn supporters, like yourself, aren’t looking at what is really happening out there right now. Concord is a nice little city. Don’t enable multi-millionaire developers to turn our city into a dump.
its only too bad you didnt stay in your house off monument to watch concord crumble. you might have not noticed anyway, as you seem very out of touch with the realitys that this city has become.
this new complex will not help younger people like me buy a house. it does ZERO for the working family man.
keep being proud of concord as mentally ill drug addicts fill concords parks, your car gets broken into and the cops tell you theres nothing they can do, the concord schools are filled with failing education and unsafe, toxic enviornments for the kids.
yah your right many people dont agree with the claycord commentors… and thats why concord continues to struggle.
The wonderful thing about housing projects is that they not only provide affordable rentals for needy families, they also make the existing homes nearby more “affordable” for less productive working class strata to buy.
Of course, all this “affordable” (really, “subsidized”) housing for the unproductive comes at productive taxpayers’ expense and reduces incumbent owners’ property value.