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Coronado Place
Apartments
Opened
December 1993
Coronado Place is
a 41-unit affordable
housing project consisting of one-, two- and
three- bedroom apartments
in the MacArthur Park area of Los Angeles.
Coronado Place is a renovated slum building
in a neighborhood plagued by drug dealers, prostitutes and gangs.
The building includes classrooms for after-school activities, community rooms
for classes and
meetings, a computer learning center and a library. Activities at
Coronado Place include classes and seminars for adults, tutoring
for youths, holiday potluck meals,
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Coronado Place Apartments
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activities. Coronado Place has an active Resident Management Committee and shares a
services coordinator with nearby Casa Carondelet Apartments. |
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Funding partners for Coronado Place Apartments included:
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Casa Carondelet Apartments
Opened April
1996
This
new construction is an
18-unit family housing project consisting of
one,
two- and three-bedroom apartments. The project was developed in partnership with
Church and
Synagogue Associates (CASA), a partnership of St.
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Casa Carondelet
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Church in Pacific Palisades and University
Synagogue in Brentwood.
The church and synagogue help to support programs and activities at the
site. There is an on-site computer learning center/library
and community room for all residents. Casa Carondelet and Coronado
Place, located a few blocks away, share a services coordinator.
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Funding partners for
Casa Carondelet Apartments included:
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Umoja
Apartments
(House of
Unity)
Opened December 1996
Located
in South Los Angeles in an area hit hardest by the
1992 civil disturbances, the Umoja Apartments was developed in
partnership with Faith
Housing Corporation of
Faith United Methodist
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Apartments was selected by the AFL-CIO to participate in the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development's Section 8
Community Investment Demonstration Project. Umoja includes 30 units of
one- to four-bedroom apartments, surrounding a courtyard, with a full-time
services coordinator on-site and a computer learning center. Faith Housing and Beyond Shelter work together to develop and
implement services and programs for the families who live there. Temple
Israel of Hollywood furnished many Umoja
Apartments and continues
to provide support for its programs and activities. Residents can access additional services at Beyond Shelter's Family Services
Center and
the Drew Child Development Center at nearby Broadway Village I
(see below).
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Funding partners
for Umoja Apartments included:
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City of Los Angeles Housing
Department
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Bank of America Community
Development Bank
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AFL-CIO Housing Investment
Trust
- City of Los Angeles Housing Department
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Bridge and Permanent Loans
- Federal National Mortgage Corporation (FANNIE
MAE)
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Curtis
Johnson Apartments
Completed December 2002
BSHDC formed a limited partnership with
the California Community Reinvestment Corporation Affordable Housing
Partners (CCRC) to transform 48 "at-risk" housing sites into a model of scattered-site,
service-enriched housing. Located in South
Los Angeles, the units received
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A Curtis Johnson unit |
kitchen, bathroom, parking and
landscape upgrades, as well as the addition of on-site laundry
facilities. Completed in December 2002, there are 17 studio, 18
one-bedroom and 13 two-bedroom units for very low-income families.
Residents have access to a services coordinator and may also access
services through the Family Services Center at nearby Broadway
Village I.
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Imperial Highway Apartments
Completed May 2004
The Imperial Highway Apartments consist of 46 scattered-site, service-enriched
housing units in
the Willowbrook area of South Los Angeles. Developed in partnership
with CCRC Affordable Housing Partners, this preservation project was
targeted to the low-income residents already housed in the units, 75
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An Imperial Highway Apartments site |
whom have incomes 30 percent below the
area median income level. Upgrades to the apartments included work on
plumbing, electricity, landscaping,
interior and exterior painting, cabinetry and heating. To enhance on-site
amenities, a community room was added at one location and open areas
received additional fencing, landscaping and outdoor furniture. A shared
services coordinator assists residents with social services and other
special needs.
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Broadway Village
I Apartments
Opened July 2004
The July
2004 opening of a 16-unit apartment building completes the latest phase of
development at Broadway Village I, a core component of Beyond Shelter's
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Located
on the corner of 78th and Broadway in South Los Angeles, the
three-story complex includes one-, two- and three-bedroom units of
affordable, service-enriched housing for formerly homeless and
low-income families. Other amenities include a community room,
office space, laundry facilities, small courtyards and a parking
garage. Many donors have helped to furnish apartments for residents
as well as community rooms or other areas, including the library,
including Temple Israel of Hollywood's
Big Sunday project, which furnished 10 apartments.
The on-site
Neighborhood
Resource
Center
provides a broad range of programs and services to approximately
1,500 at-risk families, children and teens, and individuals a year.
Services include crisis intervention, programs for homeless
families, including the “Housing First” Program, resource and
referral services, counseling for parents and children (through a
collaboration with the South Central Training Consortium), and
employment programs. Also on-site, a “Cutie Patootie” center funded
by Rosie’s For All Kids Foundation houses a state-of-the-art on-site
preschool for children ages 18 months to 5 years. At the center,
child care is offered through a collaboration with the Children’s
Collective, which provides a full-day preschool as well as ˝-day
“respite care” for homeless parents and their children (families are
also receiving services at the Neighborhood Resource Center).
A playground and
courtyard, funded by Vivendi Universal “Discover a Star” Foundation
and the For All Kids Foundation, is available to children living at
the apartment complex and visiting the Neighborhood Resource Center
with their parents. The playground and courtyard provide a pleasant
corridor between new Neighborhood Resource Center facilities and the
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Broadway
Village II
Opened July 2006
Broadway Village
II Apartments is an additional major component of Beyond Shelter’s
Neighborhood Revitalization Project (NRP) in South Los Angeles,
developed by Beyond Shelter and its development affiliate, Beyond
Shelter Housing Development Corporation. Located on South Broadway
Ave. between 51st and 52nd streets in South Los |
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the
44,000-square-foot site includes a 50-unit service-enriched,
affordable housing complex for low-income families. The complex
features one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments, secured
parking, a library, classrooms, a services coordinator's office, and
community meeting rooms. On its first floor, the site also includes
the Karsten
Neighborhood
Resource
Center,
which will open in August, 2008. The Center will be the second
Neighborhood Resource Center along South Broadway Ave. (joining the
center two miles to the south, at
Broadway
Village
I) and it will provide a broad range of programs and services for
residents of the community at-large. Beyond Shelter’s Broadway South
Neighborhood Revitalization Project (NRP), began in 1993, shortly
after the 1992 Civil Unrest, in response to critical housing
shortages and social services needs in the area. Now in its second
decade of development, the NRP includes multiple housing development
and social services sites along a three-mile area of South
Broadway. The Broadway Village II Apartment complex provides
residents with:
• On-site services
are provided by a Services Coordinator from Beyond Shelter.
Participation in services is not mandatory, but will be available to
residents as needed, including crisis intervention, money management
and life skills education, individual and family counseling,
referrals for job development and job placement, parenting
education, welfare and legal advocacy, children’s services and
enrichment activities and assistance in accessing neighborhood and
community resources.
• Special programs
and resources, including household furnishings, as needed, including
field trips and picnics,
Holiday parties and special events, and involvement with special
needs of families and their children, through members of
Temple Isaiah of
West Los Angeles.
• Tenant
participation in management and in the development of programs and
activities, through a Resident Management Committee.
• Community Rooms
for resident meetings, after-school tutorial programs, music and
dance classes, and periodic adult education seminars, a
Library/Study Room and Computer Lab.
Residents at
Broadway Village Apartments include single parent and two-parent
families, many of whom were previously homeless, and approximately
150 children under the age 18. Families are low and very
low-income, not exceeding 60% of the median income for Los Angeles
County residents.
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Central Village
In Construction
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Located just south
of Downtown Los Angeles, Central Village is a mixed-use project
featuring 85 one-, two- and three bedroom apartments, which are
being built above a commercial retail center. The commercial retail
center will be comprised of a large anchor tenant (supermarket) and
additional smaller retail spaces. The apartment complex will have
an on-site services coordinator, who will provide services to the
residents, coordinate resident activities and a resident advisory
committee. Services will include information and referrals to
resources and programs in the area, such as educational and
enrichment programs, career opportunity programs, mental health
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Mason Court
Construction Start - July 2008 |
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Mason Court
will provide service-enriched, affordable housing for former
emancipated youth with children and other formerly homeless, special
needs families. Located in the Willowbrook area of South Los
Angeles, 12 units for very low-income residents are designed
specifically as housing that will meet the needs of these high-risk
parents and children.
To help the
residents to stabilize their lives and to prevent an occurrence of
homelessness, an on-site services coordinator will provide them with
counseling, crisis intervention, and coordination with other social
services, such as mental health counseling, transportation and child
care. Residents also will have access to an education and employment
counselor who will coordinate and monitor community-based education,
training, and employment programs.
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Avalon II
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In an
area hard hit by the Civil Unrest in 1992, Avalon II will provide
affordable housing for 65 families in the unincorporated community
of Willowbrook in Los Angeles. This service-enriched housing site
will consist of 65 one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for very
low- and low-income families.
Through an on-site
services coordinator, crisis intervention, case management and other
social services will be available on-site to help residents address
economic and other obstacles to improved well-being.
The development is
conveniently located near shopping areas, schools, public
transportation, restaurants and churches. With unique entryways,
deep windows, private patio space and varied floor plans, Avalon II
is marked by attention to detail and commitment to personal
identity. Fittingly, “interlocking” courtyards, designed for the
comfort, safety and security of families, provide a transition from
private to public space as they carve interesting pathways to the
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