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WORKFORCE HOUSING
Kissing cousin of Paseo Villas complex
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Workers inspect bath tubs for Belagio Apartments before they are installed. - photo by HIME ROMERO
Say the words “affordable housing” and it often conjures up images of drab public subsidized housing or barebones unkempt homes.Belagio Apartments is about to shatter that mold.The 153-unit complex rising up on Atherton Drive between Woodward Avenue and VanRyn Avenue is being built as an affordable housing complex aimed at households typically dubbed “the working poor”. Typically they make too much to take advantage of poverty fighting programs but not enough to be able to afford to live within the dame community they are working. In this case, it is Manteca.The workforce housing complex was designed as an exterior architectural mirror image of Manteca’s most upscale apartment complex - Paseo Villas - just down the road on Atherton Drive where rents start at $995 a month for a one-bedroom unit.Qualified renters will pay based on their household income and family size.