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Service-Enriched Housing
Beyond Affordable Housing:
Promoting and Implementing Service-Enriched

Along with its affiliate, Beyond Shelter Housing Development Corporation, Beyond Shelter owns and operates several service-enriched housing sites in Central and South Los Angeles. Each of the affordable housing properties offers on-site supportive services provided by a services coordinator, who oversees the provision of crisis intervention and case management services, with the goal of helping families achieve improved social and economic well-being. In addition, each site features community rooms for classes and meetings and a library. Other services provided include parenting and adult education programs, as well as employment programs, technology or computer centers/rooms, and after-school tutoring and enrichment activities for children.

A key feature of service-enriched housing is that it allows residents to identify their own needs and issues of concern by encouraging and supporting participation in the decision-making process. Resident participation is supported through Resident Management Committees, which work closely together with the services coordinator who is primarily on-site, to coordinate and develop activities and programs for residents.

Service-enriched housing sites in L.A. County are:
  • The Coronado Place Apartments were acquired and renovated by Beyond Shelter in 1992. Coronado Place, a former slum building, is located in the Westlake/MacArthur Park area and consists of 41 one-, two- and three-bedroom units.

  • Casa Carondelet, developed in partnership with Church and Synagogue Associates, is an 18-unit housing complex in the Westlake/MacArthur Park area. The site has been in operation since 1996 and has one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments.

  • The Umoja Apartments (House of Unity) opened in 1996 and were developed in collaboration with Faith Housing Corporation of the Faith United Methodist Church. The Umoja Apartments consist of 30 units with one-, two-, three- and four-bedroom apartments.

  • The Curtis Johnson Apartments were scattered-site housing units "at risk" of losing federal Section 8 subsidies. Partnering with CCRC Affordable Housing Partners, Beyond Shelter acquired and renovated 48 studio, one- and two-bedroom units, completing the project in 2002.

  • The Imperial Highway Apartments were also developed in partnership with CCRC Affordable Housing Partners as part of a preservation project targeted to the low-income residents already housed in the 46 units. This scattered-site development opened in 2004.

  • The Broadway Village I Apartments opened in 2004, include a 16-unit service-enriched affordable housing complex, located at 78th and Broadway in South Los Angeles. They are a part of Beyond Shelter's Neighborhood Revitalization Project in South Los Angeles (NRP). Also on-site are a Neighborhood Resource Center serving thousands of families, children, and at-risk individuals a year, a state-of-the-art child care center, and a playground/mini park.

  • Broadway Village II In 2006, Beyond Shelter opened Broadway Village II - a 50-unit service-enriched affordable housing complex for very low-income families, which also includes a library and conference and community rooms.

    The on-site Karsten Neighborhood Resource Center opened in 2009, providing social services programs to residents of the surrounding neighborhood. In addition, programs and services are offered in collaboration with the Neighborhood Resource Center at Broadway Village I (located two miles to the south).

  • Central Village In 2009, Beyond Shelter opened Central Village - a mixed use development with an 85-unit service-enriched housing, built over 50,000 square feet of commercial retail space, that provides affordable housing for low-income families.

  • Other service-enriched housing complexes in varying stages of development include housing for very low-income families in Central Los Angeles and in South Los Angeles. Projects currently in pre-development include:

    • Swansea Park Senior Apartments, an 82-unit service-enriched affordable housing complex for low-income seniors in Central Los Angeles

    • Swansea Park Senior Apartments, Phase II, a 76-unit service-enriched affordable housing complex for low-income seniors in Central Los Angeles.

    • Slauson Station (61st/Slauson Ave.), a 30-unit complex for families.

    • Academy Hall, a 46-unit complex for families (120th/Vermont).

    • Hollydale Plaza, a 101-unit complex for low-income seniors in South Gate.

    • Avalon II, 1 65 unit service-enriched, affordable housing complex for low- and very-low-income families in South Los Angeles.

    • Avalon-Carver Community Center, a service-enriched, affordable housing complex in South Los Angeles incorporating 65 large family apartments, 30 transitional housing units, and a community center.

 Service-Enriched Housing Sites

Service-Enriched Housing Activities & Programs

Service-Enriched Housing Methodology



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