Construction continues in June 2025 on a permanent supportive housing project at 119 Coral St. (Tyler Maldonado — Santa Cruz Local)
Last updated: June 2025
Project name: Harvey West Studios
Location: 119 Coral St., Santa Cruz at Housing Matters.
The site is bounded by River Street, Highway 1, Big Trees and Pacific Railroad and a building at 125 Coral St. where a substance use treatment facility is planned.
Status
Construction continued in June 2025 and is expected to finish in July or August of 2026, Housing Matters CEO Phil Kramer wrote in a May 2025 email.
Project description
- Total units: 120 studio units of permanent supportive housing and one manager’s unit.
- Affordable units: This 100% affordable housing project aims to provide homes and services for people with disabilities who have been chronically homeless. The units would be used as “very-low-income supportive housing for those needing a particularly high level of ongoing supportive services,” according to a City of Santa Cruz statement.
- Height: Five stories or about 58 feet high.
- Details: The project would demolish six transitional housing units. The project also would include a ground-floor recuperative care center, behavioral health clinic, and a residential lobby with shared residential space and service provision space.
Developer
Foster City-based nonprofit MidPen Housing Corp. is the developer.
Project timeline
- The Santa Cruz Planning Commission approved the project on Nov. 19, 2020.
- The developer applied for a building permit Dec. 21, 2021.
- Housing Matters received an $18.2 million grant in late 2022. It received $25.29 million more in a state grant in February 2023. The project is fully funded, Housing Matters leaders said.
- Construction was expected to start in summer 2023 but was delayed, Housing Matters leaders wrote in a statement.
A rendering shows a 120-unit, five-story complex on the Housing Matters campus in Santa Cruz. (David Baker Architects, 180 Supportive Housing LLC)
A rendering from 2020 shows the project from Highway 1. (David Baker Architects, 180 Supportive Housing LLC)
A rendering from 2020 shows the project from Highway 1. (David Baker Architects, 180 Supportive Housing LLC)
A rendering from 2020 shows bike racks. (David Baker Architects, 180 Supportive Housing LLC)
An outdoor common area is in the plans. (David Baker Architects, 180 Supportive Housing LLC)
The project site is near Highway 1, the railroad tracks and River Street in Santa Cruz. (David Baker Architects, 180 Supportive Housing LLC)
Construction continues at 119 Coral St. in June 2025. (Tyler Maldonado — Santa Cruz Local)
A permanent supportive housing project is planned at 119 Coral St., Santa Cruz. (Patrick Riley — Santa Cruz Local)
A map from April 2023 shows land ownership and homeless service sites on Coral Street in Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz City Council in 2023 directed city staff to exclude three privately-owned parcels in green from future maps with potential homeless services development. (City of Santa Cruz)
Read more
- Coral Street homeless services plans advance in Santa Cruz — May 12, 2023
- Coral Street homeless service ideas head to Santa Cruz City Council — March 31, 2023
- Santa Cruz housing project for homeless approved — Nov 20, 2020
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