The City of Hayward has been awarded nearly $1 million in state funding to support the building of a new Housing Navigation Center.
The project is intended to provide permanent housing for the homeless.
The 4999,881 grant is part of $96 million estimated savings on state prison spending in accordance with a 2014 voter initiative that reduced the charges on certain lower-rank crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
The navigation center is expected to open near Whitesell and Depot Roads this fall.
It will accommodate up to 45 people at a time as they transition to long-term housing arrangements.
The center will be operated by nonprofit Bay Area Community Services.
Hayward City Council authorized the center back in January after declaring an emergency homeless shelter crisis in the city.
There are already two permanent homeless shelters, both of which are limited to families and women with children.
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