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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.
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 16 projects with over 940 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 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
- Coronado Place
Apartments, completed December 1993
41 large family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
- Casa Carondelet
Apartments, opened April 1996
18 large family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
- Umoja Apartments
(House of Unity), opened December 1996
30 large family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
- San Antonio Gardens, opened November 2000
64 senior apartments, Norwalk, CA
- El Centro Senior Villas, opened April 2002
81 senior apartments, El Centro, CA
- Luis "Spud" Moreno Senior Apartments, opened May 2002
80 senior apartments, Calexico, CA
- Curtis Johnson
Apartments, completed December 2002
48 scattered-site family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
(Preservation project)
- Las Flores Coachella Housing, opened June 2003
81 family apartments, Coachella, CA
- Imperial Highway Apartments, completed May 2004
46 scattered-site family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
(Preservation project)
- Broadway Village
I, opened July 2004
16 large family apartments, Family Services Center
Neighborhood Resource Center, Los Angeles, CA
- Broadway Village
II, opened July 2006
50 family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
- Sonora Vista, opened December 2006
65 family apartments, Douglas, AZ
- Parkside Apartments, acquired December 2007
79 family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
- Athens Glen, acquired December, 2007
55 family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
- Central Village, opened June 2009
85 family apartments above 45,000 sq. ft commercial development,
Los Angeles, CA
- Hollydale Village, completed July 2010
101 senior apartments, South Gate, CA
Projects in
Development
-
Mason Court, Compton, CA
12 apartments for formerly homeless or emancipated youths with children
- Slauson Station, Los Angeles, CA
30 family apartments
- Swansea Park Senior Apartments, Los Angeles, CA
82 senior apartments (Preservation project)
- Swansea Park Senior, Phase II, Los Angeles, CA
38 senior apartments
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