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Year in Review: Reflections, Milestones, and What’s to Come

On behalf of everyone at CHOC, we extend our heartfelt thanks for helping make this year a success. We deeply appreciate the support of municipalities, construction and finance partners, agencies, fellow nonprofits, and the hundreds of resident families who call our affordable housing communities home. Join us as we reflect on the achievements of the year in this comprehensive recap.

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CHOC Kicks Off Inaugural Giving Tuesday Campaign in November

Donate to CHOC Impact Resident Services This Giving Tuesday. CHOC’s Community Impact division goes beyond providing housing — we create safe, thriving communities for youth, seniors, and hardworking families. On Giving Tuesday, please consider donating to support the life-changing work that we do with the residents of our affordable housing communities.

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Placita Dolores Huerta residents: affordable housing's positive impacts (VIDEO)

(Coachella, CA) - CHOC successfully built and opened two new affordable housing developments in Coachella Valley this year. But our residents' quality of life and overall sense of safety, stability, and home are the true metrics of our success and mission in action. In association with CHOC Community Impact, CHOC Corporate Communications had the unique and special opportunity to interview Placita Dolores Huerta residents Maria Beltran and Leticia Gamez, on the occasion of our May 2nd grand opening and ribbon cutting event...

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Building Futures: 56 New, Affordable Units Unveiled at Placita Dolores Huerta

(Coachella, CA) - It’s the beginning of a new chapter for Placita Dolores Huerta’s working resident families, one that CHOC CEO Manuela Silva called "a miracle.” The complex’s 56 apartments are already fully occupied. Named in honor of the legendary labor activist, a driving force behind America’s largest farmworker movement, Placita Dolores Huerta broke ground in 2022, at a ceremony attended by the now 94-year-old Dolores Huerta; this community aims to create a sustainable, safe, and high-quality resident experience, inspired by Ms. Huerta’s lifelong work supporting farmworker and other, marginalized communities…

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Placita Dolores Huerta Sees Progress on Construction

Five months after the groundbreaking, our new affordable housing community in Coachella, California, is becoming a reality. Named in tribute to Dolores Huerta, the iconic American labor leader and civil rights activist, Placita Dolores Huerta involves new construction that includes 60 additional apartments.

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Construction Continues on CHOC’s Design-Forward Monarch Apartment Homes

The Monarch Apartment Homes is rising in the City of Palm Springs. Offering 60 apartment homes, the affordable housing community will feature clean lines and single-sloped roofs, similar to the ‘butterfly’ roofs known throughout Palm Springs as an iconic mid century-modern element.

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Monarch Apartment Homes Breaks Ground in Palm Springs

Clear blue skies and a stunning desertscape welcomed attendees on October 28, 2021 to the historic groundbreaking of the Monarch Apartment Homes in Palm Springs this October, including government dignitaries, local neighbors, and members of CHOC board and staff.

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Monarch Apartment Homes Reaches Milestone, Breaks Ground in Palm Springs
The Desert Sun Spotlights Architect Maria Song and Affordable Housing at Modernism Week