Sacramento proposed four city-run micro-communities for homeless seniors; the North Natomas site was halted in August 2026 amid cost increases and a lawsuit.
Sacramento broke ground on the Gardendale Road micro-community near Meadowview, the first of four planned tiny-home sites for unhoused people 55 and older, with 40 units planned there and 28 at a 25th Street site. City officials confirmed the Arena Boulevard site in North Natomas is paused; an internal city manager's office memo obtained by KCRA estimated that site's development and construction at a minimum of $7.1 million, up from a $3.5 million estimate in September 2025 presentations, which officials attributed to its flood-zone location. Mayor Kevin McCarty said "pause does not mean it's done."
Councilmember Lisa Kaplan said on August 26 that the Arena Boulevard project was "officially not moving forward."
Sacramento halted its planned micro-community for homeless seniors at 3511 Arena Boulevard in North Natomas, a city-run temporary housing project of up to 40 units for people 55 and older, Councilmember Lisa Kaplan confirmed. The project was last estimated to cost $7.1 million; Vice Mayor Karina Talamantes said the 1.58-acre site sits in an A99 flood zone requiring additional engineering, drainage and compliance work.
The Arena Boulevard site was one of four micro-communities proposed in Sacramento; a group called the Advisory Council for Legal Ethical Oversight filed a lawsuit in April seeking to halt the project.