By Gabriela Rico | Arizona Daily Star
This month, 50 families from the Pascua Yaqui Tribe will move into their new homes at an affordable housing development on Tucson’s west side.
The Homes at Yaqui Square is the tribe’s first master-planned community on about 40 acres of reservation land, west of Camino de Oeste and Hermans Road.
The first 50 homes are single, detached with two-, three- and four-bedroom models.
The community recently held a grand opening celebration and finishing touches are being done on the houses so residents can move in by the end of May.
“We’re proud and hope to do many more of these projects,” said Keith Gregory, director of housing for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.
He said more than 1,000 families are on a waiting list for affordable housing. “This is just a small drop in the bucket,” Gregory said.
