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April 16, 2009 (213) 978-0741
MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING OF
NEW HOUSING FOR CHRONICALLY HOMELESS
MEN AND WOMEN
Abbey Apartments will provide 113 units of permanent
supportive housing on Skid Row
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Villaraigosa today joined Congresswoman Lucille
Roybal-Allard, County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Councilmember Jan
Perry and community members to celebrate the grand opening of the Abbey
Apartments, a new 130-unit permanent supportive housing development which
will provide homes for chronically homeless men and women.
“Abbey Apartments is opening its doors to provide a combination of the housing
and services many of our poorest families need,” said Mayor Villaraigosa. “These
new apartments will serve as a solution to the problem of homelessness by
pairing a warm bed with access to affordable medical care, coupling case
management with a working kitchen and placing mothers and fathers, sons and
daughters, on a path to self-sufficiency and self-respect.”
The Abbey is a model project of permanent supportive housing, with 113 studio
apartment units affordable to low-income and formerly homeless individuals. One
hundred of the units will accommodate chronically homeless individuals with
disabilities. The project also features extensive social and health services for
residents, including case management, primary healthcare, mental health
treatment, substance abuse treatment and benefits advocacy.
The new supportive housing units were funded during the Mayor’s first year in
office through the Affordable Housing Trust Fund by leveraging $4.37 of public
and private funds for every $1 invested by the trust fund. A private-public project,
funding sources also included: Century Housing, Corporation for Supportive
Housing Authority, Skid Row Housing Fund, State of California Department of
Housing and Community Development, Citibank and Enterprise Community
Investment.
Since taking office Mayor Villaraigosa has funded 13 housing projects serving the
homeless and people at risk of homelessness. To date the projects have built
794 units, more units than the two previous mayoral administrations combined.
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April 16, 2009 (213) 978-0741
MAYOR VILLARAIGOSA CELEBRATES GRAND OPENING OF
NEW HOUSING FOR CHRONICALLY HOMELESS
MEN AND WOMEN
Abbey Apartments will provide 113 units of permanent
supportive housing on Skid Row
LOS ANGELES – Mayor Villaraigosa today joined Congresswoman Lucille
Roybal-Allard, County Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, Councilmember Jan
Perry and community members to celebrate the grand opening of the Abbey
Apartments, a new 130-unit permanent supportive housing development which
will provide homes for chronically homeless men and women.
“Abbey Apartments is opening its doors to provide a combination of the housing
and services many of our poorest families need,” said Mayor Villaraigosa. “These
new apartments will serve as a solution to the problem of homelessness by
pairing a warm bed with access to affordable medical care, coupling case
management with a working kitchen and placing mothers and fathers, sons and
daughters, on a path to self-sufficiency and self-respect.”
The Abbey is a model project of permanent supportive housing, with 113 studio
apartment units affordable to low-income and formerly homeless individuals. One
hundred of the units will accommodate chronically homeless individuals with
disabilities. The project also features extensive social and health services for
residents, including case management, primary healthcare, mental health
treatment, substance abuse treatment and benefits advocacy.
The new supportive housing units were funded during the Mayor’s first year in
office through the Affordable Housing Trust Fund by leveraging $4.37 of public
and private funds for every $1 invested by the trust fund. A private-public project,
funding sources also included: Century Housing, Corporation for Supportive
Housing Authority, Skid Row Housing Fund, State of California Department of
Housing and Community Development, Citibank and Enterprise Community
Investment.
Since taking office Mayor Villaraigosa has funded 13 housing projects serving the
homeless and people at risk of homelessness. To date the projects have built
794 units, more units than the two previous mayoral administrations combined.
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