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A ceremonial ground-breaking event took place Thursday on a new affordable housing project in Portland’s Eliot neighborhood.

The five-story, approximately 72,455-square-foot North Williams will occupy a 1.15-acre parcel fronting North Williams Avenue between Tillamook and Thompson streets. It will feature 61 apartments, including 40 for persons earning 30 percent of the regional median income or less ($24,420 for a family of four) and 20 for persons earning 60 percent of the regional median income or less ($48,840 for a family of four). Ten of the deeply affordable units will come with support services intended for people emerging from homelessness.

鈥淚ncluding these homes for our most vulnerable community members in a mixed-income project is exactly what affordable housing should look like in 2019,鈥� Multnomah County Commission Chairwoman Deborah Kafoury . 鈥淲e just need to keep doing more of it.鈥�

A consortium of parties including nonprofit BRIDGE Housing, Home Forward and the city of Portland are funding the project or providing other incentives including Section 8 housing vouchers. More than $20 million in public and private funding is being used for the project, according to the county.

Ankrom Moisan Architects designed the apartment complex, and general contractor Colas Construction will build it. Plans call for a mix of one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, ground-floor community space, bicycle parking, an exterior courtyard and a parking lot.

The wood-framed building will have a fa莽ade covered with a combination of fiber-cement panels, fiber-cement lap siding and storefront glazing for the first floor.