The Yuma City Council has given the go-ahead for the Housing Authority of the City of Yuma’s plans to develop a new affordable housing apartment complex on what is now vacant land with abandoned buildings.

HACY will look to develop a first-phase 69-unit affordable housing apartment complex where Vista Alternative School used to be. I substitute taught there. My personal experience was to pity the students. It was not the best “alternative school” place to go. But that was then, and this is now. Fortunately, a new Vista School was built and students moved. A vast........

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