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Building Neighborhoods With Affordable HousingAffordable Housing

Providing Housing For Those Who Need It Most

Improving Surrounding Property Values By Resurrecting Vacant Buildings

The Times Square • Manhattan, NY • Common Ground652 PSH Units • Award Winning $50 Million Project

Creating First Floor Retail Engages The Street Level


Active Areas Create Pedestrian Friendly Zones


Investing Capital, Improving Surrounding Property Values, Filling Voids In The Urban Fabricg


Revitalizing Buildings Causes Clean Neighborhoods


Reducing Vagrancy & Providing Housing For Those Who Need It Most


Permanent Housing, An Amazingly Effective Intervention To The Issues Most Feared Such As Loitering, Panhandling, Quality of Life Offensesg, g, Q y



The Prince George • Manhattan, NY • Common Ground416 PSH Units • Award Winning $40 Million Project

24‐Hour Security, Reducing Crime & Putting More Eyes On The Street


Filling Vacant Buildings That Would Otherwise Invite Disorder


Revitalizing Buildings Causes Clean Neighborhoods


Occupied Buildings Cause Clean Neighborhoods



The Christopher • Manhattan, NY • Common Ground 207 PSH Units, 40 Reserved for Foyer • $32 Million Project

Permanent Housing Is An Amazingly Effective Intervention To The Issues Most Feared Such As Loitering, Panhandling, Quality of Life Offensesg, g, Q y


Projects Fit Into The Surrounding Neighborhood



The Schermerhorn • Brooklyn, NY • Common Ground217 PSH Units For Arts and Entertainment Industry • $59 Million Project

Permanent Housing Serves As An Amazingly Effective Intervention In The Lifestyles Of The Chronically Homelessy y



Plymouth on Stewart • Seattle, WA • Plymouth Housing Group87 PSH Units • $16.5 Million Project


St. Charles Apartments • Seattle, WA • Plymouth Housing Group65 PSH Units


Simons Senior Apartments • Seattle, WA • Plymouth Housing Group95 PSH Units For Seniors and Military Service Veterans • $22.7 Million Project


Plymouth Housing Group • Seattle, WA


The Abbey • Los Angeles, CA • Skid Row Trust113 PSH Units

Active Areas Create Pedestrian Friendly Zones


Creating First Floor Retail Engages The Street Level

St. George • Los Angeles, CA • Skid Row Trust86 PSH Units • Award Winning $9.7 Million Project

Stories – Common Ground SuccessesIn the fall of 2007, “Louise” turned 48 years old. She had been battling homelessness and living on the streets since she was 15. She ran away from home frequently to escape abuse at the hands of her parents. “It was horrible,” she says of enduring sexual and physical abuse as a child. Though she was in special education classes in school, they did not provide the support she needed; she dropped out b f th th d B th ti h i h l 40 “L i ” i k i h ibefore the seventh grade. By the time she was in her early 40s, “Louise” was using crack‐cocaine, heroin, and marijuana daily. She was assaulted by a friend and hospitalized, and she was frequently abused by other street homeless individuals with whom she had teamed up for protection.

O O b 11 200 “ i ” S h k i h i i hb h dOn October 11, 2007, “Louise” met two Street to Home outreach workers in the Jamaica neighborhood of Queens and began to work with them to find permanent housing. She began taking medication to address her feelings of depression and she started exercising to take care of her body as well as her mind. Slowly but steadily, she began to acquire the stability and safety for which she had yearned.

With Street to Home’s assistance, “Louise” selected an apartment in Brownsville, East Brooklyn. Six months later she has settled into her permanent home and is now in contact with two of her sisters and her daughter.now in contact with two of her sisters and her daughter. “I don’t know what I would have done without Street to Home,” she says. On one wall she has put up what she calls her “Wall of Successes”; on it, she has taped certificates attesting to her work in Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, and a Ping Pong tournament championship. In the middle is a copy of her lease.

Stories – Common Ground SuccessesWhen Antoinette Jones moved into her new apartment on 54th Street and 11th Avenue in New York, she couldn’t help but think back on The Times Square, a Common Ground residence and her first home in the city. Acquired by Common Ground in 1991, the Times Square is one of the largest permanent supportive housing projects in the nation.

Antoinette moved to New York City in the mid‐1990’s in search of a new life. When she was unable to find a job, she found herself homeless and alone. For four months she lived in multiple shelters. “It was frightening because I had never been homeless before. You are just desperate. You think there is no way out.”

While staying at a women’s shelter, she was advised to apply for housing at the Times Square residence. “When I walked in the door it was so beautiful. I thought I hope I get in, I hope I get in!”

Sh did “Aft f th i h lt t h h f d t h k d b thShe did. “After four months in a shelter to have a home of your own and to have a key and a bathroom of my own, it was marvelous.”

Stories – Common Ground SuccessesIn November 2007, the Street to Home Partnership made its first housing placement under Common Ground’s groundbreaking DHS contract. It was a memorable day for the man we placed, and equally important to the team that worked to secure his new home. Mr. K, age 60, had spent the last 40 years surviving on NYC streets. Over decades of cold winters, heavy drinking, and diminishing health, he became all too familiar with emergency rooms, detox units, and psychiatric wards —where he would go g y , , p y gto escape the elements.

Because Mr. K. frequently slept on the steps of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, he was well known by its staff. The church has a Homeless Ministries and Homelessness Committee that provides morning ff d f i h l l l i h ki i h C G dcoffee, and a sense of community, to homeless people sleeping there. Working with Common Ground to

house these people, church staff members were extremely important to our success in building a relationship with Mr. K.

During the moving process Mr K was clearly excited to finally have a place to call home but after soDuring the moving process, Mr. K. was clearly excited to finally have a place to call home, but after so many decades without one, he was also overwhelmed when the prospect became a reality. Both before the housing interview and on the first morning he woke up in his own bed, he was tempted to walk away. Street to Home’s team stayed alongside him, listening to and supporting him. Because they had engaged him and won his trust, he agreed to remain in his new home and take advantage of the support system offered.

Mr. K. now has his own keys and he signed his first lease. As he learns to cook his own meals and maintain his apartment, they are making sure he

i l f R ili d i h i il M Kreceives plenty of support. Resilient and with an engaging smile, Mr. K. can be seen walking cheerfully around the lobby of the Times Square, the nation’s largest supportive housing residence.

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