| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Ventura County, CA, May 30, 2025 – People’s Self-Help Housing (PSHH) has broken ground on its latest affordable housing project: College Community Courts, in a ceremony sponsored by Wells Fargo Bank, and made possible through the special partnership with the College Ministry Center of the California Pacific Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
This project, located at 80 Baylor Drive in the City of Ventura, will provide 57 new one-, two-, and three-bedroom affordable rental apartments for families and individuals earning up to 60% of the area median income, which is $149,700 for a family of four as of 4/1/2025. Rents will be set to not exceed more than 30% of household income for households earning between 30% and 60% of area median income, thereby making the rental rates more affordable than market-rate housing. The development will designate 29 apartments for farmworker households, 2 apartments for unhoused individuals and 2 apartments for domestic violence survivors. Residents will have access to an onsite community center, laundry room, outdoor recreational spaces, property management, and supportive services.
“It’s a special day to see this project finally break ground after four years of planning,” said Ken Trigueiro, PSHH CEO & President. “It takes many partners and members of the project team to pull it all together. We are so grateful for the relationship with the Church that brought us to where we are today.”
In Summer 2021, People's Self-Help Housing was selected by the College Ministry Center United Methodist Church to develop affordable housing on a portion of their property. The project was entitled under Senate Bill 4, the Affordable Housing on Faith Lands Act, which took effect January 1, 2024.
“Today marks a significant and deeply meaningful moment in the life of our church and community,” said Rev. Melissa Roux MacKinnon, Change Manager – North District for the California Pacific Conference of the United Methodist Church. “We honor those many years we served as the church community here, by having and saying ‘Yes, in our backyard!’, in fact, on our property. We want to make sure that there will be families and others who find a home, a place where they can safely grow.”
The project received the permanent financing necessary to complete the project from Wells Fargo Bank-National Association, California Community Reinvestment Corporation, California Department of Housing & Community Development, California Energy Commission, California Tax Credit Allocation Committee, California Debt Limit Allocation Committee, the County of Ventura, and the City of Ventura.
RRM Design Group was the Design Architect and Arris Studio Architects serves as Project Architect during the construction phase. PSHH is the developer, general contractor, property manager, and service provider.
The development will reach completion and open doors to its new residents in 2027.
To see photos and media from the groundbreaking, view the event album at pshhc.org/CollegeCommunityCourtsGBgallery. To learn more about PSHH, visit pshhc.org.
About People’s Self-Help Housing (PSHH)
Founded in 1970, PSHH is the longest-serving nonprofit affordable housing organization on the Central Coast. With a mission of building homes and providing services to strengthen communities and change lives, PSHH serves low-income households, including families, seniors, veterans, farmworkers, those living with disabilities and the formerly homeless. It also provides homeownership opportunities through a self-help, “sweat equity” program that has seen over 1,200 homes successfully completed. PSHH has a presence in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Monterey counties, manages over 2,000 rental units, and employs over 200 staff members. PSHH acknowledges the Indigenous Peoples and unceded territories that the organization now occupies, including the YTT Northern Chumash, Santa Ynez Band of Chumash, Barbeño/Ventureño Band of Mission Indians, Cruzeño Chumash, and Salinan elders, current and future generations as the protectors of these lands. To read the full land acknowledgement, visit pshhc.org/IDEA. For more information about the organization, visit pshhc.org, email info@pshhc.org or phone (805) 781-3088.
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