Summary: Los Angeles LISC (PDF)
In Los Angeles, Building Sustainable Communities is transitioning from planning to implementation through three partners within targeted neighborhoods. In Boyle Heights, for instance, the East Los Angeles Community Corporation is leveraging a new transit station to preserve affordable housing and neighborhood retail. The Coalition for Responsible Community Development is working along the Central Avenue Corridor to grow a successful workforce program for young adults and has broken ground on a new affordable housing project for emancipated youth. Community Build has nurtured a now-mature coalition along the Crenshaw Corridor that is advancing several projects; as part of that collaboration, Ward CDC recently completed the Rosa Parks Villas senior housing project that anchors the northern gateway to the corridor. And LISC is further pursuing its comprehensive approach with its support for healthy food. Additionally, in 2009, we provided debt and equity support to a new partnership with a supermarket chain that is helping eradicate a food desert in South L.A. In Los Angeles, Building Sustainable Communities is already having a significant, positive impact.