Abode Housing Development Hosts Grand Opening Ceremony at Kifer Senior Apartments

Abode Housing Development joined community partners and local stakeholders on May 8 to celebrate the grand opening of Kifer Senior Apartments — an affordable housing development that is adding 80 new homes for seniors in the South Bay.

Regina Williams, executive director of Silicon Valley at Home, was the emcee of the ceremony held at the housing site in the city of Santa Clara.

The event’s speakers included Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor; Preston Prince, executive director, Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara; Consuelo Hernandez, director, Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing; James Vossoughi, executive director, Community Development Banking at Chase; Chad Bojorquez, chief program officer of Destination: Home; Louis Chicoine, CEO of Abode Housing Development & Abode Property Management; and others.

“It’s been said that the true measure of a society is found in how it treats its most vulnerable members,” Chicoine said. “If true, the Kifer site is a symbol of Santa Clara’s strength because it provides housing and services to seniors and veterans, some of our community’s most vulnerable people.”

Kifer Senior Apartments provides 80 units of housing that is affordable to low-income senior households. The six-story building sits on a half-acre property at 3333 Kifer Road in the city of Santa Clara. The housing site is a combination of 30 studio apartments, 45 one-bedroom units, 4 two-bedroom units, and an on-site manager unit. More than half of the units are reserved for seniors experiencing homelessness and eight apartments are set aside for senior veterans experiencing homelessness.

Abode Housing Development has partnered on this site with the City of Santa Clara; County of Santa Clara; Destination: Home; Housing Trust Silicon Valley; California Department of Housing and Community Development’s Housing for a Healthy California Program; Housing Authority of the County of Santa Clara; Veterans Administration; Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing; California Tax Credit Allocation Committee; California Debt Limit Allocation Committee; Enterprise; Chase; Capital One; Comerica; GLO Architecture; Johnstone Moyer Inc.; and The John Stewart Company.

“We’re excited to add much-needed units of affordable housing at this development,” Chicoine said. “It will strengthen Santa Clara County and help reduce homelessness in this region.”