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                     Beyond  Shelter              Housing Development Corporation

 

Mission Statement

The mission of Beyond Shelter Housing Development Corporation is to expand opportunities available to low-income persons to obtain affordable, decent, safe and sanitary housing and to support the functions of Beyond Shelter, a California nonprofit benefit corporation. This mission will be accomplished through the development of affordable housing and mixed-use developments.
 

 

Coronado Place
Coronado Place Apartments


BSHDC Goals Are To:
 
  • Target families and individuals with very low and low incomes.
     

  • Incorporate services into the design and operations of affordable housing developments, furthering the model of service-enriched housing.
     

  • Develop and promote collaborations to operate childcare and other social service facilities that support service-enriched housing and neighborhood-based services.
     

  • Develop and facilitate homeownership opportunities for low- and moderate-income families.
     

  • Contribute, through the development of affordable housing, mixed-use developments and collaborations, to the revitalization of neighborhoods.

BSHDC's objective is to develop services enriched housing that will help families combat chronic poverty, welfare dependency and homelessness. Service-enriched housing integrates social services mechanisms into the operation and management of affordable housing for low-income and/or at-risk populations.

BSHDC is a general partner in 14 projects with over 750 units of multifamily housing currently in service, all of which are affordable housing developments. In general, unit sizes vary from one to four bedrooms, with the majority at two and three bedrooms to serve the needs of larger families. Projects are both single-site and scattered-site. Housing stock includes new construction, conversion of blighted properties into affordable housing units, and acquisition and rehabilitation of "at-risk" properties, averting the conversion of these units to market rate housing. Several projects are under construction or in pre-development phases.

One-third of the Board members are representatives of the residents of BSHDC projects or represent or live in low-income neighborhoods.

 

History

Tanya Tull, president and founder of Beyond Shelter's Housing Development Corporation, began her work in low-income family housing in 1983 when she co-founded the L.A. Family Housing Corporation. Ms. Tull began developing service-enriched housing in 1986, with the groundbreaking of the agency's first newly constructed affordable housing 


Courtyard at Casa Carondelet

project. Ms. Tull is also founder of A Community of Friends, a nonprofit housing development corporation, which develops "supported permanent housing" for the homeless and "at-risk" mentally ill. 

In 1990, the same year of its incorporation, BSHDC began development of its first project, Coronado Place Apartments, located in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles. Working with JoAnne Yokota, then a housing development consultant, the agency soon began to develop other housing sites. After the development of three "demonstration projects" in Central and South Los Angeles, in 2000, BSHDC also began developing neighborhood resource centers and child care facilities in partnership with Beyond Shelter. At that time, Ms. Yokota became executive director of BSHDC, a position she held through 2007.

 

Project Listing

 

Projects in Construction

  • Central Village, Los Angeles, CA
    85 apartments above retail development                                    Expected
    construction completion: September 2008        

 

Projects in Development

  • Avalon II, Los Angeles, CA
    65 family apartments
     
  • Mason Court, Los Angeles, CA
    12 apartments for formerly homeless
    or emancipated youths with children

     
  • Slauson Station, Los Angeles, CA
    30 family apartments
  • Academy Hall, Los Angeles, CA
    46 family apartments
     
  • Hollydale Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
    101 senior apartments
     
  • Swansea Park Senior Apartments, Los Angeles, CA
    82 senior apartments
  • Swansea Park Senior, Phase II, Los Angeles, CA
    76 senior apartments
     
  • Avalon-Carver Community Center, Los Angeles, CA
    65 large family apartments
    30 transitional housing units

     


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