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Service-Enriched Housing
Programs & Activities
Service-enriched housing represents the incorporation of a social services "mechanism" into low-income rental housing. Beyond Shelter Housing Development Corporation develops service-enriched affordable housing in Los Angeles for low-income families with children.

Umoja Apartments


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



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
  • 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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