Leeway is extending its role within the continuum of AIDS care to include housing and housing-related supportive programming. By creating community housing and support services, we hope to see less “cycling through” of Persons Living with AIDS (PLWA) who are medically frail and prone to repeated bouts of illness.
In 2000, Leeway began its community living initiatives with a 5-unit scattered site housing development undertaken with the Corporation for Independent Living (CIL), a non-profit housing development partner. This project now serves as the basis for the more comprehensive housing efforts currently underway. By 2010, Leeway will have brought a total of 41 units of supported housing online.
In 2005, the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation (BMSF) awarded a Secure the Future® grant to Leeway, allowing us to greatly expand our work in community capacity building, both in housing development and service programming.
We are pleased to tell you of three Supportive Housing Initiatives.
- Sherman Parkway, New Haven, CT – Leeway is the case services manager for 9 units in a 34 unit development being substantially renovated under the CT Next Steps program in New Haven. Tenants will receive rent subsidies and case management services.
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Canterbury Gardens Layout
Canterbury Gardens Elevation
amden, CT – Leeway is the developer and service
provider for 17 permanent supportive housing units in a substantial rehabilitation project in Hamden. The units are all 1-bedroom. The Veterans Administration is involved as a service provider and referral agency for tenants. Funding is through the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority Next Steps Program: $5.03 million in capital and $161,500 in annual service dollars.
Putnam Exteriors
Putnam
Apartment
- New Haven, CT – This project is a rehabilitation of a building adjacent to Leeway. Leeway owns the property, and is receiving $1.4 million from HUD
for an 811 Project to construct 10 units as well as rent subsidies for those units.
Welton
Exterior
Welton Apartment
Leeway is known regionally and nationally as “leaders in AIDS care.” In addition to our work in the supportive housing field, we have also received grants to explore and develop new service options; one such grant recently has been a two-year grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven for research into the effect of intensive community based clinical case management for PLWA.
Underpinning these efforts has been Leeway’s continued work as an active advocate for policy changes at the state level to improve access to and payment for services to this population. The BMSF grant has taken Connecticut’s supportive housing and service delivery continuum for
PLWA another step closer toward completion, making independent living at the highest optimum level a reality.
Since receiving the BMSF grant, Leeway has secured funding for capital, services and rent subsidies for community supportive housing projects that is expected to exceed $28,000,000.
For more information on Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation’s Securing the Future Grant, click http://www.bms.com/sr/foundation/data/intro.html
Leeway’s Supportive Housing Partners
Canterbury
Gardens
Owner/Developer/Property
Management
NeighborWorks/New Horizons
Seila
Mosquera, Executive Director
Housing Consultant
Women’s
Institute for Housing and Economic Development
Elisabeth
Youngerman, Sr. Project Manager
Support Services Provider
Leeway,
Inc.
Martha
Dale, Executive Director
Leeway-Putnam
Owner//Developer/Support Services Provider
Leeway,
Inc.
Martha
Dale, Executive Director
Housing Consultant
Women’s
Institute for Housing and Economic Development
Elisabeth
Youngerman, Sr. Project Manager
Development Consultant
Westmount Management, Inc.
Rick Ross
Architect
Paul B.
Bailey Architect, LLC
Paul Bailey
General Contractor
LaRosa
Building Group
James
LaRosa
Property Management
DeMarco
Management Corporation
Maria
DeMarco
Referrals/Services
VA
Healthcare System
Preston
Maynard, Director of Homeless Services
Leeway-Welton
Owner/Developer/Support Services Provider
Leeway,
Inc.
Martha
Dale, Executive Director
Housing Consultant
Women’s
Institute for Housing and Economic Development
Elisabeth
Youngerman, Sr. Project Manager
Development Consultants
GDA
Consultants
Naren
Dhamodharan
Housing
Enterprises, Inc.
David Berto
Architect
Henry
Schadler Assoc., PC
Paul Selnau
General Contractor
Enterprise Builders
Keith
Czarnecki
Property Management
DeMarco
Management Corporation
Maria
DeMarco
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