Over the weekend, Contra Costa County officials unveiled a new residential complex for homeless residents.
It's something that's happening across the Bay Area, but in this case, it involved converting empty offices into places for people to live.For years, homeless advocates have talked about turning unused office space in San Francisco into housing. In San Pablo , they've done it. 'I am so proud to be here as we celebrate the opening of what is a model project to really help solve homelessness in our community,' said Contra Costa Supervisor John Gioia.
'A few of the challenges are meeting modern code, structural code, seismic code. We are pretty close to the Hayward Fault. Getting all new MEP â mechanical, plumbing, electrical â dividing the building into units.'And they handed that whole thing down to construction supervisor Tony Britton.'When I walked into this place, I was like, 'Oh my God, what are we going to do here,'' said Britton. 'It was just a massive building.
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