The Design Solution for Homelessness
Next City: In Los Angeles, An Architectural Approach to Keeping People Off the Streets Is Gaining Notice.
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).
This is what housing for the homeless could actually look like
Washington Post: In cased you missed it, Post colleagues Justin Jouvenal, Robert Samuels and DeNeen L. Brown had a devastating investigation in Sunday’s paper of D.C. General, the largest shelter for homeless families in the District.
Skid Row’s Star Apartments Ready For Move-Ins
LA Downtown News covers The Trust’s Star Apartments opening.
Here Are Los Angeles’s Most Beautiful Apartment Buildings
SRHT’s New Carver Apartments makes the list of Curbed’s “Most Beautiful Apartment Buildings”.
A New Housing Model at the New Genesis
Downtown LA News: Like developer Skid Row Housing Trust’s last four projects, the New Genesis is considered supportive housing because it includes onsite social services. Tenants access everything from medical care to drug counseling to mental health treatment without leaving the building.
A Community Garden Blooms on a Skid Row Rooftop
LA Downtown News: On a recent Wednesday, Willie Mae Bell was dripping with sweat under a harsh mid-morning sun. She was on the roof of her building, preparing to plant potatoes in a garden.
Construction Update on New Genesis Affordable Housing in Downtown LA
DTLA Rising with Brigham Yen: The LEED-Platinum certified New Genesis affordable housing mixed-use project has been rising quietly on Main Street over the past year. A rendering from architect firm Killefer Flammang shows a well-designed, modern 7-story building that will contain 106 units intended as supportive housing, mostly for the formerly homeless in the area, and 25% of the units will go toward working individuals making less than $37,260 annually.
Michael Maltzan Architecture Builds New Carver Apartments
ICON: The New Carver apartments stand on the corner of Hope street in Downtown Los Angeles. It’s a white, round building that seems to have come undone in places. Apart from its proximity to Interstate 10, there is little unusual about this block of flats – an architectural monolith in an up-and-coming area of LA. That is, until you step inside.
Skid Row development brings needed housing, jobs to area
KPCC: Residential and commercial construction jobs are hard to come by these days. But the New Genesis Apartments project will keep plumbers, electricians and welders busy for the next year.