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Patrick Kennedy remembers driving past the empty 7-acre lot adjacent to Le Donne Drive near 47th Street and Nicholas Park in South Sacramento about 10 years ago, just about the time he was elected supervisor to Sacramento County District 2.
“I drove down that street, and what did I see?” Kennedy asked on Aug. 6 at a celebration event for the now complete and fully occupied Cornerstone affordable housing development at that location. “I saw blight. I saw drug-dealing, I saw open prostitution. I saw illegal dumping, and I also saw this empty piece of property. Then I found out that this empty piece of property was on our books — public property for 30 years.”
A decade after Kennedy’s initial look at the property, the first-ever partnership between Mutual Housing California and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento resulted in Cornerstone’s unique approach to filling that once formerly empty parcel combining affordable rental housing and homeownership opportunities into one project.