FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
Ardenaire Project Creates Ten-Year Plan’s 
First Units Through Development 
Sacramento, Calif., (May 31, 2007) - SHRA and Mercy Housing have collaborated in a project that will 
create the first housing units through development under the City and County’s Ten-Year Plan to End 
Chronic Homelessness. 
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors and the City Council approved the plan in September 2006. 
With ‘housing first’ as its central strategy, the plan is focused on moving disabled homeless individuals 
quickly off the streets and out of shelters and into permanent housing. Once housed, individuals will be 
provided flexible support services to help them maintain their housing and increase their self-sufficiency. 
The Ardenaire Apartments rehabilitation project will set aside 19 of 52 affordable units for extremely 
low-income individuals who are chronically homeless and have special needs and/or a disability. 
Mercy Housing California will develop the project in partnership with Turning Point, a local service 
provider who will provide case management services to the chronically homeless special needs/disabled 
tenants. 
Ardenaire Apartments consists of one and two-bedroom units. The building will undergo exterior 
improvements such as siding, roofs and balconies. Interior upgrades will be made as needed including 
appliances, sinks, cabinets, fixtures and floor coverings. The rehab work will also create a community 
room with a kitchen, classroom and meeting space, computer stations and space for staff and an on-site 
half-time social service coordinator. Other amenities include an onsite picnic and barbeque area. 
Financing for the project includes $8.3 million in tax-exempt mortgage revenue bond funds provided 
through the County Housing Authority and an Agency HOME loan of $3.11 million. The Agency also 
approved grant funding up to $800,000 in Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) Program funds for the 
project. 
For more information about this project, contact Jim Hare, Assistant Community Development Director, 
at (916) 440-1328. 
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