One Affordable-Housing Solution for Cities: True Home Rule
Independence is the difference between dense cities that achieve affordable housing, like Hong Kong and Singapore, and the ones that don’t. CityLab (from The Atlantic).
Star Apartments Named Finalist in Readers’ Choice Awards
Star Apartments Named Special-Needs Finalist in Affordable Housing Finance 10th Annual Readers’ Choice Awards (page 33).
Where We Sleep: Costs When Homeless and Housed in Los Angeles
Cost Benefits of Permanent Supportive Housing
7 Smart New Affordable Housing Projects Making Cities Stronger
Star Apartments featured in Gizmodo review of affordable housing projects.
Investing on the inside too
LA Times: he Charles Cobb, designed by the Pasadena architecture firm Kivotos Montenegro Partners Inc., opened in early April to provide apartments for chronically homeless and disabled people. It was built by the Skid Row Housing Trust for $13.1 million and includes first-floor offices for healthcare, case management and other services — a combination known as supportive housing.
Attractive and Affordable
LA Downtown News Editorial: When it comes to building projects to help some of the troubled and homeless get off the streets, architectural design has historically been one of the least important considerations. In Downtown Los Angeles, however, that thinking has begun to change, thanks to a scattering of low-income developments that include high design standards. The pattern needs to continue.
Affordable by Design
LA Downtown News: Downtown Developments Prove That Low-Income Projects Can Have High Architectural Standards
Housing Agency and Family Lift Man From Life in the Street
NY Times: Since the late 1990s, advocacy groups like the Skid Row Housing Trust have been trying to increase the number of permanent supportive housing units, which provide treatment support and monitor tenants’ progress.
Rainbow serves chronically homeless
Affordable Housing Finance: The Rainbow Apartments is a valiant effort by Skid Row Housing Trust to serve Los Angeles’ neediest at a time when market-rate loft developers have pushed into downtown, snatched up the available properties, and begin gentrifying the area.