Families are lining up to live on what was once the most crime-plagued street in Citrus Heights. The application window opens Tuesday for new affordable homes that are about to be built on Sayonara Drive.
In 2009, the city began buying up a number of the problem properties and tearing them down.
Since then, the land has remained vacant, but now, the city is partnering with Habitat For Humanity to rebuild 26 new homes.
On Monday night, a community meeting was held to look for people who want to move in and who can contribute at least 500 hours towards construction.
Habitat is bracing for a big demand in the first round of eight homes that are being offered.
And the new homes, which will be all-electric and drought-tolerant, may not be the only change to this once blighted street.
"We would really like to bring in a new name to the street, kind of bring it new life," Bermudez said. "It does have a stigma to it."
Groundbreaking on the new homes is set to begin in May, with construction taking about a year and a half to complete.
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