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36th Street and Broadway Apartments, L.P. where Coalition for Responsible Community
Development will become the Managing General Partner.
That the CRA/LA Board of Commissioners, subject to City Council review and approval:
5) Amend the FY10 Budget and Work Program for Council District Nine Corridors South of
the Santa Monica Freeway Recovery Redevelopment Project Area to transfer $150,000 in
budgeted line item "Commercial/lndustrial" to "Affordable Housing";
6) Authorize the Chief Executive Officer or designee to execute an Amended and Restated
Loan Agreement with 36th Street and Broadway Apartments, L.P. in an amount not to
exceed $2,450,000, of which $2,000,000 would be funded only in the event that Multifamily
Housing Program funds are not made available prior to permanent loan funding; and
7) Adopt a Resolution making the findings that an economically feasible alternative of financing
on substantially comparable terms but without subordination of the CRA/LA Deed of Trust,
covenants and use restrictions is not reasonably available, and authorize the subordination
of the CRA/LA Deed of Trust, covenants and use restrictions to the construction and
permanent loans provided for the proposed project.
SUMMARY
The recommendations pertain to a scattered-site development of twenty (20) units of affordable
housing for Transition Aged Youth ("TAY"), five (5) units for families, and a manager's unit at
each site located at 157-161 E. 36th Street and 4775 S. Broadway (the "Project"), for a total of
27 units (Site Map, Attachment "A"). One of the sites, 4775 S. Broadway, is within the
boundaries of the Council District Nine Corridors South of the Santa Monica Freeway Recove~
Redevelopment Project Area ("COg Project Area"), however, the site located at 157-161 E. 36
Street is one block outside of the COg Project Area boundaries and therefore requires the
CRNLA to make a Finding of Benefit. The Broadway Apartments will provide 10 TAY units, 5
units for very low income families and one unrestricted manager's unit. The 36th Street
Apartments will provide 10 TAY units and one unrestricted manager's unit.
36th Street and Broadway Apartments, L.P. will be the "Developer" and "Borrower" for the
Project. During predevelopment and construction Little Tokyo Service Center ("LTSC") and the
Coalition for Responsible Community Development ("CRCD") are co-general partners as the
Developer, however, once the Project is constructed LTSC will assign its interest in the
Partnership to CRCD, who will become the Managing General Partner.
According to studies conducted by the County of Los Angeles and Shelter Partnership, some of
the highest concentrations of emancipated foster care youth in the City of Los Angeles are in
the South Los Angeles and Metro Service Areas. Over 18% of the youth who age out of the
foster care system countywide are residing in South Los Angeles. In particular, these youth are
commonly counted among the transient and homeless due to their inability to find work and
stable housing. The Metro Service Area has over 17,000 homeless youth between the ages of
18 and 24, most of which came out of the foster care system. Bunker Hill is located inthe Metro
Service Area and the COg Project Area is located in the South Los Angeles Service Area. This
is--thefirsf project for Transitional-Aged Youth that has beenlunded by-eUl1erprojedarea and-
is an important step towards providing the special needs housing necessary to assist this
population in transitioning out of the foster care system to becoming fully self-reliant. This is the
first and only permanent supportive housing project focused specifically on Transitional Age
Youth in the City of Los Angeles. In addition, the Project will be rehabilitating almost 5,000
square feet of ground floor commercial space that will house the Vernon-Central Workforce