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King City seeks former Project Homekey site for homeless shelter

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KING CITY, Calif. (KION) -- The County of Monterey is looking to help King City purchase a former Project Homekey site so that it can still become a permanent homeless shelter. 

The site being looked at is the Days Inn located at 1130 Broadway Street.

The city says Shangri-La Industries severely mismanaged the property as it was acquired for Project Homekey. The Days Inn was then lost to foreclosure last year. 

KION previously reported that Shangri-La was accused of misusing funds for three Homekey projects in Salinas. 

The county is considering a $300k contribution towards the purchase. If approved, ownership would be transferred to the county's housing authority.

They intend to renovate the inn by converting it into 45 studio units for people who live in encampments along the Salinas River.

A temporary shelter was established for them at the Monarch Inn last year after the home-key project fell through. 

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Sergio Berrueta has been in the news for quite awhile going from studying print media to entering the realm of broadcast.

Originally from Bell Gardens, California, in Southeast Los Angeles. Berrueta started his professional news career in Eureka as a newscast producer for North Coast News (now The Northstate’s News) at KAEF ABC 23 in 2022. He pivoted a year later in 2022 going from behind-the-scenes to in front of the camera as a multimedia journalist for Redwood News Channel 3 (KIEM/KVIQ) also in Eureka.

Berrueta studied journalism at Humboldt State University (now Cal Poly Humboldt) earning his Bachelor’s Degree. Berrueta was a staff writer, page editor, social media manager and editor-in-chief of the university’s El Lenador, the only bilingual publication in all of Humboldt County.

Before moving to the North Coast, Berrueta had earned his Associate’s Degree at East Los Angeles College in 2019 after beginning his educational journey in 2012. He also was on staff for the ELAC’s publication, ELAC Campus News, having been a staff writer, page editor, and online editor.

Outside of news experience, Berrueta has also been in education as an AmeriCorps tutor in East Hollywood from 2017 to 2019 and served in a government role as a National Hometown Fellow for Lead for America with the City of Arcata in 2021.

When not focusing on news, Berrueta is an avid amateur cinephile having written about films in free time. He also writes poetry, attempting to get through a backlog of video games, enjoys visiting new places along the California Coast, and trying to keep up with the latest music and podcasts.

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