HumanGood Projects

Clark Terrace are two adjacent 2-story apartment buildings consisting of 80 one-bedroom total units which serve low-income seniors 62 years of age and older. The project will undergo an extensive renovation which will include a complete interior and exterior rehabilitation of all residential apartments, all corridors, and common spaces including upgraded mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.

The Gardens is a 5-story single apartment building serving low-income seniors 62 and older. The project will undergo an extensive renovation which will include a complete interior and exterior rehabilitation of all residential apartments, all corridors, and common spaces including upgraded mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.

Motivated by growing threats to housing affordability and community stability, the Ethiopian Community of Seattle (ECS) and East African communities in the Rainier Valley have partnered with HumanGood Affordable Housing (HGAH) for this affordable housing development.

This project preserves the community center currently on-site where the Ethiopian community and residents alike gather, and access programming which includes low-cost meals, exercise classes, speaker engagements, opportunities to socialize and connect, computer literacy and more. This project will allow the Ethiopian community to flourish, elders to age in place, and newly arrived refugees and immigrants to successfully transition to their new home country.

Morgan Hill Senior Housing will be a 3-story apartment building consisting of 83 large one-bedroom units serving low-income and special needs seniors. Outdoor amenities include a central courtyard, raised planter beds, drought tolerant landscaping, a covered walkway and drop-off area that leads to 37-pervious resident parking spaces. Equipped with photovoltaic solar panels on the roof top, this apartment building will be fully electric only. Interior features include a welcoming lobby, manager and service coordinator offices, community room, secured laundry room, media room, fitness center and a 3rd floor roof deck open space. The total building square footage is estimated to be 69,825 sq. ft.

Canterbury Village is a 3-story single apartment building serving low-income seniors 62 and older. The project will undergo an extensive renovation which will include a complete interior and exterior rehabilitation of all residential apartments, all corridors, and common spaces including upgraded mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems.

Northaven Three is a partnership between Northaven Senior Housing and HumanGood Affordable Housing to develop 85 units of affordable housing, serving independent seniors earning up to 30%, 50% and 60% of area median income. HumanGood and Northaven have partnered based on their aligned missions to provide high quality communities for seniors. The project will be located adjacent to the Northgate mall and less than a mile from the Northgate transit center and future light rail.

Frederick Douglas Haynes Gardens apartments is six apartment buildings serving low-income multi-families. The entire project will undergo an extensive renovation which will include a complete interior and exterior rehabilitation of all residential apartments, all corridors, and common spaces. Other project improvements include installation of an upgraded children’s play structure new landscaping and site accessibility improvements. Fredrick Douglas Haynes will have modernized improvements which includes several energy-saving measures including a solar hot-water heating system and photovoltaic (PV) panels.

Castle Argyle is a nearly 100-year-old building which today serves very low-income seniors and disabled adults over the age of 18. Residents are restricted to those with incomes below 50% AMI. The entire property is undergoing an extensive renovation which will include a complete interior and exterior rehabilitation of all residential apartments, corridors, and common spaces. There will be extensive seismic retrofitting of the building and all major building systems (plumbing, electrical, mechanical) will be redone. Expansion of the elevator shaft will also occur to accommodate a new gurney-sized elevator.

The project is a partnership between HumanGood Affordable Housing (HGAH) and the Filipino Community of Seattle (FCS). HGAH is a leading provider of affordable senior housing; FCS has provided services to Filipinos in Seattle for decades, and for many years has had the goal of building affordable senior housing. The site is adjacent to the existing Filipino Community Center, where residents will have access to programming including a food bank, health screening, and cultural programs. The building will also provide common spaces and a bistro for residents; the ground floor will be occupied by the Innovative Learning Center, which will provide digital access for young people including Science-Technology-Engineering-Arts-Math programs for teens and young adults.

Life’s Garden is an existing 208-unit, 2 story garden style multifamily development on a 5.34 acre flat lot in Sunnyvale, CA. Life‘s Gardens was originally constructed in 1974 and has been generally well maintained and in overall average condition. Life’s Garden is currently 98.1 percent occupied and maintains an extensive waiting list of over 500 households.

The entire project had an extensive renovation which included a complete interior rehabilitation of all residential apartments and all corridors and common spaces. The community consists of a community room, business center, central laundry facilities, community garden, courtyard, elevators, exercise facility, picnic area, recreation areas, service coordination, and on-site management. Post-renovation new features include fire panel and electrical system and community amenities that will include the addition of central heating and air conditioning.

Rotary Terrace is a partnership between the Rotarians of South San Francisco, dba as Rotary Plaza Inc. and HumanGood Affordable Housing. The project is an eighty-one (81) unit affordable senior apartment complex on City-owned sites in downtown South San Francisco with all restricted units targeting households at or below 50% AMI. The Development is located ¼ mile from a Caltrain station and within the City’s Downtown redevelopment subarea. Amenities include exercise room, library, bike storage, high-speed internet, community space, roof-top garden, central laundry and social service space. Program space will be used in conjunction with a partnership of the Health Plan of San Mateo to support medical needs of residents. Additionally, there is an accessory use area that is available as flexible community meeting space.

Rotary Plaza is a two-building complex that first received residents in the early 1970s. After 43 years of service the community, the project underwent an extensive renovation and Section 8 preservation that will guarantee the long-term affordability of the property for decades to come. The renovation included seismic upgrades, a complete rehabilitation of all residential apartments and all corridors, improvements to common spaces, an expanded library with a new fireplace, enhanced open space and raised garden beds, and a new café. The improvements also included a new hydronic heating system, solar hot-water heating system and photovoltaic (PV) panels that enhance the property’s environmental efficiency and lower the overall community utility cost.

The Pearl at Oyster Bay is a complex mixed-finance project that combined HUD Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly financing with 9% Low-Income Housing Tax Credit equity. It is part of the Bremerton Housing Authority’s (BHA) Bay Vista HOPE VI community and exemplifies Beacon’s flexibility in working within larger planned communities. In addition to developing the 81-unit affordable senior housing project, ABHOW/Beacon Communities completed infrastructure and roads around the project. When the community needed additional infrastructure work, our team had contingency plans in place that allowed us to collaborate with the housing authority to complete the necessary work. The resulting project will help the housing authority complete other critical infrastructure around the neighborhood, including roads, utilities, and a public park. The Pearl at Oyster Bay serves low- and extremely low-income seniors through a HUD Project Rental Assistance Contract (PRAC) and is designed in a manner to allow the elderly to "age in place" comfortably in their apartments.

ABHOW purchased Three Rivers in 2010 when the previous owners wanted to exit their HUD program, thus preventing a conversion to market rate and displacement of senior and disabled residents. The renovation included the modernization of apartment kitchens and bathrooms, the common area dining room and significant site upgrades. A new expanded manager’s office and meeting room, administration work offices, a wellness room and reconfigured entries were added as new construction. The building remained occupied during the renovation so rigorous steps were taken to lessen the impact on residents, many of whom were frail and elderly. The building entered into a 20-year HUD Section 8 Housing Assistance Payment Contract extension as part of the acquisition by ABHOW.

Harbor View Manor was originally built in 1970 under Section 236 of the National Housing Act to serve a low-income elderly and disabled population. The renovation provided needed capital improvements including new roofs, water supply piping, ventilation systems and central heating. New subsidies were secured before the project’s affordability requirements lapsed, thereby preventing displacement of fragile residents. After renovation, property amenities include a computer lab, beauty salon, exercise room, community room, family gathering area, and an exterior plaza with views of Mt. Rainier, downtown Tacoma, and Commencement Bay. Section 8 vouchers are provided for Harbor View Manor residents.

Salishan Gardens is one facet of the Salishan HOPE VI redevelopment project in southeast Tacoma. It was designed and constructed with a focus on sustainable design, energy efficiency and "aging in place" design for seniors to grow old comfortably in their apartments. Significant green features include a system by which the sun heats the hot water and the air is cleaned, heated, and cooled by energy-efficient heat pumps and heat recovery ventilators. The project serves low- and extremely low-income seniors, many of whom are receiving social security as their only income. As a result, rents are 100% subsidized by a Project Rental Assistance Contract (PRAC) with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.