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.  

• 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.

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

• 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
  Child Care 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
  79 family apartments, Los Angeles, CA
   
• Eexcel Budlong
  55 family apartments, Los Angeles, CA

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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