New Skid Row Homeless Apartment Complex Has A Running Track And Art Studio
Huffington Post covers Star Apartments.
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The Solution to Chronic Homelessness? Try Homes.
NY Times: Why more policy makers have embraced the idea of supportive housing, also called “housing first,” which admits chronically homeless people into subsidized housing and gets them social services and treatment for health problems and addictions.
Innovative apartment complex for homeless people opens on skid row
The $40-million Star Apartments building, developed by Skid Row Housing Trust and designed by architect Michael Maltzan, has attracted international attention for its striking profile.
Affordable housing group celebrates opening of new project
Annenberg Radio News: For many low-income people in Downtown Los Angeles, getting emergency healthcare is not easy. But, the Skid Row Housing Trust is working to allievate this problem, building affordable housing in the city for individuals referred by the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services. The organization celebrated the grand opening of this Star Apartments building at 240 E. Spring Street.
Health agency moving to skid row to aid homeless
LA Times Online – Local: A Los Angeles County health agency is moving its headquarters and medical clinic into the heart of skid row in what experts said could become a national model for curbing homelessness.
Star Apartments is Modular Building Institute’s October Building of the Month
PR Web: Star Apartments was manufactured by Guerdon Modular Buildings for Skid Row Housing Trust in Los Angeles, California. It reused an existing building plus modular construction to provide a mixed-use housing complex with 102 apartments for the area’s most needy residents.
Problem Solver: Skid Row Housing Trust’s Dana Trujillo takes on resyndication of 14 properties
Affordable Housing Finance profiles Skid Row Housing Trust’s Dana Trujillo in their 2014 Young Leaders Feature.
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).
The Midnight Mission, Affordable Housing, and the Border from the Other Side
KCRW – Press Play with Madeleine Brand: Despite our improving economy, new numbers show that 20 percent of Angelenos live in poverty. That’s one of the highest rates in the country. Madeleine visits the Midnight Mission, which serves 3,000 meals a day to poor and homeless on Skid Row.
From narco-wars to urban basketball, making art out of activism
LA Times Online – Arts & Entertainment / Arts & Culture: A new exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art explores the ways in which art and social justice projects intersect.