WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) today awarded approximately $15 million to select owners of HUD-assisted senior housing developments to help their low-income senior tenants to age in their own homes and delay or avoid the need for nursing home care. HUD will cover costs related to hiring a full-time Enhanced Service Coordinator and a part-time Wellness Nurse to connect the elderly with the supportive services they need to maintain independent living and age-in-place.
“It is so important that we afford our seniors the opportunity to live independently,” said HUD Secretary Julián Castro. “These grants will help owners of HUD-assisted senior developments to offer the services that will allow seniors to remain in their homes for as long as they can.”
Funded through HUD’s Supportive Services Demonstration for Elderly Households in HUD-Assisted Multifamily Housing, these three-year grants will produce evidence about the effectiveness of this enhanced supportive services model for elderly households and to evaluate the value of enhanced service coordination paired with affordable housing for seniors. The Demonstration will be independently evaluated to determine the impact of the enhanced supportive services model on:
- aging in place in HUD-assisted senior developments;
- avoiding early transitions to institutional care, and;
- preventing unnecessary and often costly health care utilization-such as some emergency room visits and hospitalizations-for residents in HUD-assisted senior developments.
HUD and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) collaborated on several research initiatives to inform the design of this demonstration. Lessons from each have informed the resulting experimental research design that has three significant features: 1) the creation of separate groups of enrolled properties: treatment and control; 2) the use of a lottery, or a random assignment, to place eligible properties in these two groups; and 3) the requirement to uniformly implement the demonstration’s core components and ensure adherence to the study design.
The following senior housing developments will receive funding:
| State | City | Applicant Name | Property Name |
| California | Santa Cruz | East Cliff VOA Affordable Housing, LP | East Cliff Village Apartments |
| Rocklin | Placer County VOA Elderly Housing, Inc. | Rolling Oaks Apartments | |
| Chula Vista | The Salvation Army Chula Vista Residences, Inc. | Silvercrest – Chula Vista | |
| San Francisco | Dorothy Day Community, L.P. | Dorothy Day Community | |
| San Rafael | Maria B. Freitas Senior Housing | Maria B. Freitas Senior Housing | |
| Oakland | Allen Temple Development Corporation | Allen Temple | |
| Oakland | Allen Temple Development Corporation No. 2 | Allen Temple Arms Ii | |
| Ontario | Ontario Senior Housing, Inc. | Ontario Senior Housing, Inc. | |
| Redondo Beach | Casa De Los Amigos, LP | Casa De Los Amigos | |
| Los Angeles | Good Shepherd Manor | Good Shepherd Manor | |
| Fountain Valley | Our Lady of Guadalupe | Our Lady of Guadalupe | |
| Los Angeles | Baptist Service Corporation | Vista Tower | |
| San Bernardino | Telacu Housing San Bernardino III, Inc. | Telacu Housing-San Bernardino III | |
| San Bernardino | Telacu Housing-San Bernardino V, Inc. | Telacu Housing San Bernardino V | |
| Los Angeles | Southern California Presbyterian Homes | Castle Argyle Apts. | |
| Illinois | Rockford | Luther Center | Luther Center |
| Chicago | Charles A. Beckett Associates Limited Partnership | Charles A. Beckett Apts | |
| Chicago | Kenwood Area Housing Inc. | Greencastle of Kenwood | |
| Glenview | Glenview Elderly Housing | Patten House of Glenview | |
| Chicago | Oasis Senior Living, LP | Greencastle of Morgan Park and Beverly | |
| Maryland | Baltimore | Arlington Ii Non-Profit Housing | Arlington Ii Non-Profit Housing Corp |
| Owings Mills | Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Village I | Weinberg Village I | |
| Massachusetts | South Boston | South Boston Non Profit | South Boston Non Profit Housing |
| Jamaica Plain | Jamaica Plains | Jamaica Plains Coop Serv | |
| Roslindale | Roslindale Senior Np | Roslindale Senior Np Hsg Inc. | |
| Worcester | Colony Retirement Homes 1 | Colony Retirement Homes I | |
| Worcester | Colony Retirement Homes 4 | Colony Ret Homes Iv | |
| Michigan | Royal Oak | Oak Non-Profit Housing Corporation | Barton Towers 2 |
| Hazel Park | Hazel Park Non-Profit Housing Corporation | Hazel Park Manor | |
| Belleville | Belleville Non-Profit Housing Corporation | Belleville Cooperative Apartments | |
| Riverview | Riverview Non-Profit Housing Corporation | Riverview Tower | |
| Detroit | St. Anne’s Non-Profit Housing Corporation | Rio Vista | |
| Pontiac | Colony Lane Non-Profit Housing Corporation | Pontiac Village Estates | |
| Grand Rapids | Plymouth Arms Associates, A Limited Dividend Housing Association, LP | Plymouth Arms Apts | |
| New Jersey | Pennsauken | Stonegate At St. Stephen, Inc. | Stonegate At St. Stephen’s |
| Union City | Domus Corporation | Holy Rosary Housing | |
| Ocean City | Ocean City 2406, Inc. | Wesley By The Bay | |
| Audubon | Audubon Towers Ltd Partnership | Audubon Towers | |
| South Carolina | Columbia | Episcopal Housing Corporation | Finlay House |
| Columbia | New Lakeside Apartments Limited Partnership | Lakeside Apartments |