Affordable housing community for seniors opens in Linda Vista [Video]

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – The first of 11 residential developments on excess county land opened Thursday, with elected leaders dedicating the Levant Senior Cottages community in San Diego’s Linda Vista neighborhood.

Wakeland Housing and Development built the Linda Vista affordable housing development as part of a partnership with the county and San Diego Kind for vulnerable seniors. Levant has 126 affordable homes, according to a statement from the developer.

“I’m not going to call it an apartment. I’m calling it a home. I can’t believe the quality of it,” said Earl, a cancer survivor who will receive rental assistance from the San Diego Housing Commission. “I have a place here I can be proud of — a place where I can put up my children’s pictures. I can decorate. There’s actually room to put a TV, which I haven’t had in some time.”

The complex is 4.5 acres featuring a …