Sunday, May 18, 2025
5/18/2025
Rock Rose Development Plan - Concho Valley Community Action Agency (CVCAA) will use $150,000 in CED Planning funds to build the administrative capacity of the community to develop a fundable CED project in San Angelo, Texas. San Angelo is home to a considerable population of unhoused individuals, but these residents have had limited shelter options ever since the Salvation Army closed the city’s only homeless shelter in 2019. Accordingly, these residents developed encampments across the city, but these encampments were recently removed, leaving these individuals with no safe place to sleep at night. To address this problem, CVCAA will use CED Planning funds to further develop a plan to create the Concho Valley Rock Rose Community Campus, a housing development for unhoused individuals. CVCAA, in partnership with the Concho Valley Homeless Planning Coalition (CVHPC), has already made significant progress on the project, in part due to the purchase of an 11.8-acre plot of land by the city for the project. However, significant gaps still remain. Specifically, CED Planning funds will allow CVCAA to hire a development associate who will dedicate all of their time towards the project. The Development Associate will complete a Campus operation business model demonstrating the jobs that will be created as part of the housing development’s operations, create a Resident Employment Plan to support self-sufficiency, identify and apply for additional sources of funding to meet the project’s estimated budget of 28 million dollars, and build partnerships with community organization. As a result of these efforts, CVCAA will be well-positioned to submit a CED job creation project application to bring the Concho Valley Rock Rose Community Campus into reality.
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