OAKLAND –Three affordable housing projects in the city are being awarded almost $50 million under a state program that promotes sustainable land use and transportation planning along with greenhouse gas reductions.

Coliseum Connections, a 110-unit mixed-income, multi-family project near the Coliseum BART station, will receive $14,844,762; the project, by UrbanCore Development LLC, includes repurposing an existing BART parking lot. Half of the units are supposed to be below market rate, with the rest intended as workforce housing for familes earning between 60 percent and 100 percent of the area’s median income.

A project to rehabilitate and preserve the Empyrean and Harrison hotels will receive $16,807,556. The project, near Harrison and 14th streets, is supposed to be 100 percent affordable, and it includes new bike lanes, a bike share station, and purchase of a new hybrid bus in partnership with AC Transit. The developer is nonprofit Resources for Community Development.

LakeHouse Commons, a 91-unit affordable housing project at Lake Merritt Boulevard and East 12th Street, will receive $18,127,203. The project is a partnership of the the East Bay Asian Local Development Corporation and UrbanCore, and will include bus, bike and pedestrian infrastructure connecting the project to downtown, uptown, and East Oakland.

The grants come from Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities (AHSC), a local assistance program supported by the California Climate Investments (CCI) & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) of the California Strategic Growth Council. Revenue for the CCI Fund comes from proceeds of the California Cap-and-Trade Program Auctions.

Elsewhere in the East Bay under the program, in Berkeley, Grayson Street Apartments, a project with 23 affordable units over ground-floor commercial space, along with transportation enhancements, will receive $3,755,326. The developer is nonprofit Satellite Affordable Housing Associates.

A project summary list from the 2015-16 AHSC Program is available here.