A strong partner base for our current services has ensured that we are ready to take an important next step toward our strategic vision: Establish a neighborhood for young people, ages 18-24, connecting them with best-in-class housing, living wage jobs and certification, health and well being, and social Our drop-in center serves as the gateway to thriving for our guests- offering outreach to the streets, connection to food, clothing, safe respite, health care, therapy, case management, and access to housing, jobs, education, legal aid, mentoring and more. Our institutional vision for central Ohio youth is that they have a home and a chance to thrive. Housing instability- living without a place to call home. Without all four in place, we are susceptible to chronic To successfully transition into long-term housing stability, any one of us needs to sustain the following four assets: affordable housing, a living-wage career, health & well-being and a supportive community. Number one cause of our guests’ homelessness is disconnection from family and that a leading predictor of exiting homelessness is a supportive community. Through continuous best practice research with our partner, The Ohio State University, we know that the Offering them safe respite and a chance to thrive. At Star House’s Milo Groganĭrop-in center in 2019, we saw a rolling population of 115 homeless youth and their small children daily, up from 65 per day in 2018. Homeport’s will devote our time to overseeing the quality of construction, working with the general contractor, Wallick Construction the architect, Hooker DeJong and Wallick Communities’ management staff, to be sure the details are right.Each year, thousands of young people in Central Ohio struggle to navigate from adolescence to independence and fall into homelessness. What’s next? All 86 apartments will be renovated, building by building, over the next 18-plus months. Thank you to everyone who’s worked on this development! This type of investment is important in creating affordable housing that endures.Ĭredit is due to many people, inside and outside Homeport, for this milestone, in particular Brenda Peterson and Josh Casper, Homeport’s development staff who work on the project Roy Lowenstein, Homeport’s development consultant CMHA, for choosing Homeport as its partner and the construction’s financiers, the Ohio Housing Finance Agency, Ohio Capital Corporation for Housing, Lument, and Ohio Capital Finance Corporation. That keeps these apartments available to a wide range of people, all while their apartments’ physical condition dramatically improves. Thanks to Thornwood Commons’ legacy of ownership by CMHA, every family who lives there will pay no more than 30% of their household income toward rent. Thornwood Commons’ renovations include new windows, cabinets, flooring, more energy-efficient heating and cooling equipment, and much more. The closing is more like a new starting line for any project: After more than two years of planning, Thornwood Commons is ready to start construction. Homeport is excited to announce that in late June we closed on the construction financing for our next development, “Thornwood Commons.” Thornwood Commons is an important partnership with the Columbus Metropolitan Housing Authority, to extensively renovate 86 apartments for families that were originally built in the mid-1950s in Columbus’ Milo-Grogan neighborhood.
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