Eureka can expect new transitional housing to be built by the end of fall this year.
Miles Slattery, Eureka city manager, said that an agreement was recently finalized with Montebello-based company Built on Site Systems Podz.
The prefabricated units will be put together on the Crowley site off Hilfiker Lane. Lara Ohanesian, project manager at BOSS Podz, said the units in Eureka will be two rooms, 8.5 by 17 feet buildings. Ohanesian said the company is also providing the bathrooms, which are dorm style.
There will be 33 residential units, one unit with showers and one unit with a kitchen. 10% will be ADA accessible, and Slattery said they have yet to determine if people can bring their dogs.
A volunteer work day will assemble the pods sometime in August or September, to be determined once units are delivered.
The Betty Kwan Chinn Homeless Foundation will operate the community. Slattery said the idea is for the units to be the next step from the Blue Angel Village. People will graduate toward these units, which are considered transitional housing. This prepares people for the jump to permanent housing, he said.
The project is funded with 1.6 million from a Newsom encampment grant. 
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