KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Helping those who need it most - the Kings Community Action Center Organization just opened its newest transitional housing center Wednesday in Hanford. The facility will provide 27 rooms to people battling homelessness in Kings County. One of the transitional center's first residents, Frank Gastelo, who has been homeless for the last 11 months, took part in Wednesday's opening ceremony. “I almost got jumped wherever I was sleeping, hungry, cold it was rough out there everyone is out there on their own,” he said. Gastelo and others will typically spend around 90 days at the transitional living center as they gather the proper documents to apply for long-term housing. “It's beautiful, it's a God send really,” Gastelo said. The project was finished in just over a year with help from Kings County. Lisa Lewis director of Kings County Behavioral Health says it's important that everyone has a place to sleep. “There's a tendency to think of people who end up in homelessness as somehow different or other than them. They are not, they are us. And often when someone loses a job or a spouse or some kind of health concern occurs, they can fall into homelessness a lot easier than we know," said Lewis There are other plans to open similar facilities like this one later in 2025.