Clark County is celebrating a groundbreaking in District E, where Nellis Grove Apartments is set to rise near Nellis Boulevard and Vegas Valley Drive. The project will add 120 housing units, according to the county, and comes with nearly $11 million in backing from the Clark County Community Housing Fund.
The announcement came Thursday in a post from Clark County Nevada
on X, which read in part: “Celebrating the groundbreaking of Nellis Grove Apartments in District E! Located near Nellis & Vegas Valley, this project…” The county’s social post was itself a retweet of a message from the account CommishTick, also shared Thursday.
Separately, county records reviewed by citizenportal.ai show the Clark County Commission on Aug. 20 approved a use permit, design review and certain waivers for a proposed affordable housing project located east of Nellis Boulevard and north of Vegas Valley Drive. That proposal, from developer Chelsea Investment, covers 3.83 acres and calls for five residential buildings plus a clubhouse, per the same report. The county’s Housing Fund had already provided funding support for that project, including a recent $3.5 million allocation, citizenportal.ai reported.
A County Pouring Money Into Affordable Housing
Thursday’s groundbreaking lands amid a stretch of active investment by Clark County in affordable housing. Nevada faces a shortage of more than 78,000 affordable and available rental homes for extremely low-income tenants, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. That gap has pushed the county to back a string of projects across the valley over the past several months.
In June, Clark County and Nevada HAND broke ground on Serene Pines Senior Apartments, a project that will provide 281 affordable homes along with supportive services, including 29 units set aside for people considered most at risk, the station reported. Serene Pines drew a $20.6 million commitment from the county’s Welcome Home Community Housing Fund, up from an initial $17 million commitment, according to News 3 Las Vegas. That funding was intended to keep units affordable for households earning roughly $36,000 to $56,000 a year, the station noted.
Veterans Housing And A Recently Opened Complex
Earlier this month, commissioners voted 7-0 to approve a $90 million veteran-focused project called Patriot Housing LV in Sunrise Manor, according to FOX5 Vegas. That development is planned for a nearly 15-acre parcel near Tree Line Drive and Vegas Valley Drive and will include 348 units, 108 of them transitional housing for unhoused veterans, with construction expected to wrap in 2028, the station reported.
Just last month, the Southern Nevada Regional Housing Authority and The Michaels Organization held a ribbon-cutting for the 121-unit Gholson Landing in east Las Vegas, a $32 million project for low-income tenants, the Review-Journal reported. Within months of completion, the complex was already nearly 80 percent leased, the paper noted.
Clark County officials have pointed to the Community Housing Fund as the engine behind this wave of construction, though the scale of that engine is described differently across county materials. One county webpage says the fund’s Welcome Home program is helping build or maintain more than 5,600 units of affordable and attainable rental housing. A separate county page states the Board of County Commissioners has approved nearly $270 million in Community Housing Fund money for 47 housing developments across the community. It is not clear from available county materials whether those two figures describe the same portfolio or the same time period.
