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Beyond Shelter has promoted the term
"service-enriched housing" to represent affordable basic rental housing for
the low-income population at-large – not necessarily for those at
risk or with special needs. Beyond Shelter Housing Development Corporation has
completed several models of service-enriched housing in inner-city
neighborhoods in Los Angeles.
At each project, a services coordinator helps
residents access community resources and provides crisis intervention
and assistance in striving for improved social and economic
well-being. Resident Management Committees participate
in program development and operations.
Service-Enriched
Housing Developments
- Coronado Place Apartments,
completed
December 1993
- Casa Carondelet Apartments,
opened
April 1996
- Umoja Apartments (House of Unity),
opened
December 1996
- Curtis
Johnson Apartments, completed December 2002
- Imperial
Highway
Apartments, completed
May 2004
- Broadway Village I,
opened July 2004
- Broadway Village II,
opened July 2006
Central Village,
under
construction
(expected completion: September 2008)
- Avalon
II, in pre-development
- Mason
Court, in pre-development
- Academy Hall,
in pre-development
- Slauson Station,
in pre-development
- Swansea
Park Senior Apartments, in pre-development
- Swansea
Park Senior, Phase II, in pre-development
Partial
Listing of On-Site Resident
Activities/Programs
Physical
Amenities
Sites
vary, but many have the following:
- Services coordinator's office
- Children's
activity areas & large multipurpose community rooms
- Outdoor recreational
areas, some with portable barbecues, benches, volleyball net, handball
court, tetherball and basketball hoops
- Brightly-lit laundry rooms
adjacent to activity hubs
- Computer learning centers
- Children's classrooms/meeting rooms
- Library/study halls
Library at Coronado Place
Adult Education Classes, Seminars,
or Special Presentations
Sites
vary, but many have the following:
- Employment programs
- Child development classes
- Presentations by
community groups on such topics as health and welfare reform
- Presentations by LAPD representatives, discussing
building security and protection against criminal activity
- Management company presentations
on building security and maintenance
Activities for Children &
Teenagers
Sites vary, but many
have the following:
- Child care when
parents participate in on-site activities, classes or meetings
- Computer learning center activities
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Piano/music lessons (funded by Resident Management
Committees)
- Arts & crafts activities
- Dance classes
- Field trips (planned either by the
services coordinator, the Resident Management Committee or by an outside organization)
Celebrating Christmas
Activities Organized by Resident
Management Committees
Sites vary, but many
have the following:
- Periodic surveys
of residents' needs and concerns
- Monthly meetings
of all residents to plan activities, identify priorities, discuss
problems in the building or criminal and/or gang activity in the
area and communicate with management
- Holiday parties
and potluck dinners, usually held at Christmas, Thanksgiving and Easter
- Summer barbecues/potlucks, both on-site and at local parks
- Haunted house (at
Coronado Place) and Halloween parties at all sites
- Monthly "clean-up" days of community
areas
- Periodic parking lot sales & Sunday
night movie videos to raise money for
activities
Resident Management Committee meeting
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