Vista Ridge Permanent Supportive Housing Project
Vista Ridge is a proposed Permanent Supportive Housing (PSH) community located at 3331 N Texas Street in Fairfield, CA, the current site of the Sure Stay Hotel, next door to Texas Roadhouse. The project proposes converting 100 guest rooms into 50 permanent one-bedroom homes designed to support individuals transitioning out of homelessness. There will be 50 primary occupants and they can have up to 2 family members or a roommate. They may also have guests for up to 7 days at a time. Permanent Housing is not temporary, the occupants receive a lease for life. They do not have to transition out to other housing if they do not wish to or are unable due to their mental illness or addiction. This is a Homekey project funded by the state of California and that falls under SB1380 which allows the residents to refuse services to treat their afflictions and mandates that they may continue to use illegal drugs and alcohol as that is part of their lifestyle. The hope is that once in permanent housing they will choose to follow a sober path.
Why we are opposed to this project :
The location is poorly chosen and planned, next to thriving retail businesses and children’s dentistry offices
The target population consists of drug addicts and severely mentally ill who will be problematic to the neighborhood
The presence of this population will cause safety issues in the area due to behavioral problems and will tax the emergency services to the detriment of the rest of the residents in the district
The funding from the US Government and the state of California is not confirmed at this point in time due to US budget, and CA programs that support the services for addicts and mentally ill are not assured for the 55 year agreement with Homekey
What can we do to prevent this project from happening?
Email or call the 4 council members who have consistently supported the project since January 2025. They do not believe the majority of the public is against this. Do this TODAY! Currently, there are 4 firm votes in favor of this project and that will pass out of 7 council members. Williams, Carr, Panduro and Tonnesen.
The FINAL council vote is on Tuesday Nov 18 at city hall at 6 PM. Be there and tell the council you do not want this in our city. Each resident will have 2 minutes to say what they want. You may also ZOOM in and speak online. We will provide the link when it is posted.
Note : While member Sandhu voted yes to all Vista Ridge progress approvals before August, on August 5 he voted YES to rezone the parcel to residential from commercial and then voted NO on the progress as the public outreach had not yet been done. Please reach out to him and let him know what you think.
Make sure your neighbors are aware! We are finding less than half of the residents are even aware of this looming permanent addition to the North Texas area. Council has been voting on this since January 2025, however it was not listed in the agendas clearly and was not noticed by residents. Most found out in August when it made the news.
Donate to our group. Attorney costs, signs, petitions, and other necessary expenses will add up to around $4000 when we are done. We have about $2,000 in donations at this time: $20, $50, $100 helps a lot! It is worth it to stop this project that will damage our community. See QR code at the bottom for Venmo or contact our email if you wish to donate in cash or check. This is not tax deductible, not a 501C group. Three of our well known residents managing the funds.
See council contact information below :
For the latest information, please watch last week’s community meeting on YouTube. Held at City Hall Oct 22, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyaVgZCOlMA&t=3s
Hear our firefighters at 1:25 much more from the Mayor and City Manager - a must watch!
Pacific Research Institute Report on Homekey in California since 2020
https://www.pacificresearch.org/flawed-project-homekey-now-immersed-in-scandal/
Q : What happens if city council approves this on November 18?
A : Citizens Against Vista Ridge are prepared to launch a referendum effort. We have one chance to tell them we disagree with their decision. Our attorney will have a petition ready to go 2 days after the vote. We must gather 7000 signatures of valid registered Fairfield voters within 30 days of the 18th. If we do that, then the council pass vote will be nullified. Council will decide at the next meeting (January 2026) whether to vote again, drop the matter, or put out to a city wide special election which will be expensive for the city and paid for out of general fund. That vote will be 50% plus 1 to win.
We are prepared to go door to door, sit at the mall and grocery stores and get those signatures. There are 14 thousand registered voters alone in district 4 and we believe 90% are against this.
Q : Why does the city keep saying that veterans will be at this project and maybe sex offenders?
A : The designated criteria for getting on the list to move into Vista Ridge is that the person must have a drug addiction or be severely mentally ill. If that person happens to have a past history of being in the military or convicted of sex offenses then they would be included in the population. The violent sex offenders who are registered are excluded, but you could have been registered and removed from the list. Mayor Moy explains it in the video below. Everyone wants to help veterans and it sounds like a good thing, but these would be SMI, severely mentally ill or drug addicted people, and as documented by Homekey Plus there are ZERO funds allocated to that group and ZERO services. Same with sex offenders. Residents care about blocking residents with a past history of sex offenses of any kind. The city manager has repeatedly answered that yes, there will be some veterans as they are looking for them specifically and there could be sex offenders.
We are building our website! Much more to come as our volunteers post more information and answer your questions!!
Citizens Against Vista Ridge is composed of residents of Fairfield, many longtime neighbors from Paradise Valley, Dover, Rolling Hills, Rancho Solano and Green Valley. Join our mailing list for weekly updates!
DONATE to our cause via VENMO please!
We will let you know when we reach our goal of $4000. We hope this will cover our expected costs. Note all of us have donated as well plus the time.
November 1
Currently spent $3,400
Donations to date $2,140
