St. Barnabas Apartments in Minneapolis Read more
Via Roble integrates homeowners, renters
Escondido, Calif. – A crime-ridden, rundown trailer park here presented Trinity Housing Group, Wakeland Housing and Development Corp., and the city with a chance to implement a social-engineering design that had never been tried in San Diego County. Read more
New project revitalizes San Jose neighborhood
San Jose, Calif. – Tierra Encantada embraces several smart-growth principles to uplift its neighborhood and to provide housing for people earning as little as 30% of the area median income (AMI). Read more
A new Louisville neighborhood rises
Louisville Ky. – A HOPE VI development here with about 1,050 housing units is turning roughly 125 acres of derelict and crime-ridden public housing into a mixed-income neighborhood. Read more
Seniorshousing returns to pricey downtown site
San Francisco – Community activists battled the city for 25 years to have affordable housing, not an office high-rise, replace a torn-down hotel near downtown. Read more
Abused women find safe, permanent home
Austin, Texas – For abused women and their families, a shelter and support organization called Safe Place has long provided up to 18 months of transitional housing and services on a secure 20-acre campus. Read more
Block by block, historicpreservation rebuilds community
Baltimore – Working in partnership with a local health-care provider, Enterprise Homes, Inc., has completed the fourth phase of a major housing and revitalization project that has added 29 affordable apartments through the renovation of 14 historic row ho Read more
Vets find away out of a downward spiral
Long Beach, Calif. – As many as one-third of all homeless persons are military veterans, according to the nonprofit advocacy group U.S. Read more
Hotel project provides housing while rescuing city’s pastThe Grand Apartments in Roseburg, Ore.Roseburg, Ore.
Roseburg, Ore. – A derelict hotel that stood empty for 45 long years has been reinvented as the Grand Apartments, a home for young single mothers and other low-income residents Read more
NewportHeights replaces housing of last resort
Newport, R.I. – A new multi-phase development, Newport Heights, is replacing public housing serving very low income families with 425 new units of mixed-income housing Read more
Affordable apartments wooactive seniors with mix of amenities and retail
Simi Valley, Calif. – The Vintage Paseo Senior Apartments development is a testament to how a city can encourage a public/private partnership to create housing attractive enough to keep its seniors from moving away. Read more
Unique financingstructure helps farmworkers put down roots
Medford, Ore. – Lilac Meadow Apartments is the first project of its kind in Oregon to blend farm-labor housing funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development program (RD) with a low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) project. Read more
Skid Rowproject reaches out to chronically homeless
Los Angeles – The St. George Hotel integrates housing and services to help the most vulnerable residents in the city’s Skid Row neighborhood Read more
Transitvillage emerges in struggling Oaklandneighborhood
Oakland, Calif. – Mandela Gateway offers housing and easy access to transportation for low-income residents of struggling west Oakland, near where the Cypress Freeway collapsed during the devastating 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Read more
Grand ideas realized at North Beach Place
San Francisco – North Beach Place answers the critics who complain that HOPE VI projects result in the loss of affordable housing units. Read more