Before he arrived at Heartwood Apartments in Mountain View, Ruben Gonzalez was one of thousands without a place to call home in Santa Clara County.

“I was on the streets for a month and a half, and a shelter for almost a year,” said Gonzalez, a former plumber and landscaper from Morgan Hill. “You can be homeless, but you don’t have to be hopeless.”

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Heartwood Apartments, which opened in October 2024, is part of Project Homekey — a state initiative that provides funds to organizations or entities that allow them to purchase and transform properties into permanent or temporary housing for people experiencing homelessness. The Mountain View site, which was previously the Crestview Hotel, houses a mix of residents, including transitional-age youth and households “experiencin

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