CENTRAL AVENUE SENIOR APARTMENTS OPENS

WASCO, CALIF. — Wasco Affordable Housing Inc. has developed Central Avenue Senior Apartments, a 42-unit senior-housing apartment community located at 300 Central Ave. in Wasco. The community consists of 14 one-story buildings featuring one- and two-bedroom apartments. The community is restricted to retired and working agricultural workers age 62 years or older, who earn 60 percent or less of the medium area income. Each apartment offers a stove, a microwave, a refrigerator, a dishwasher and an individual washer and dryer. Financing for the $8.2 million project was provided in part by a $3 million tax credit equity investment from Enterprise Community Investment Inc., a $2.25 million loan from the USDA Rural Development program, which includes a mortgage and rent subsidies, and a $900,000 loan from the State of California’s Joe Serna Jr. Farmworker Housing Grant Program.