SANTA ANA – Nearly 1,500 affordable housing units are in development in Orange County’s second-largest city and one of its densest – a number equivalent to a half-century’s worth of production at its normal rate, according to a city council member.
“It’s an amazing amount,” Councilman Jose Solorio said. “Santa Ana on a good year may do 30 units, so this is like 50 years worth of affordable housing are going to be built.”
Many of those units are designed to house the city’s most vulnerable populations, during what officials countywide have recognized as an affordable housing crisis.