Community Housing Partnership is working with Larkin Street Youth Services and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing to provide 24 studio rental units of supportive housing to youth aged 18-24 at risk of homelessness, including youth aging out of foster care. The proposed development will leave the historic Edward II Inn largely untouched on the exterior, remodeling the ground floor to accommodate our programmatic needs. CHP’s extensive experience in developing and operating permanent supportive housing, coupled with Larkin Street Youth Service’s expertise in providing tenant services to this particular population, will result in an attractive, well-managed building, responsive to the needs of the Cow Hollow and Marina communities. These two organizations bring an unparalleled depth in the core competencies needed to effectively provide supportive housing to transition-age youth.

Community Housing Partnership

• Has as its sole mission to provide permanent, supportive housing to people who would otherwise be without a home. Since our founding in 1990, we have helped thousands of people, including transition aged youth, move beyond poverty.

• Has developed seven properties which the organization owns and manages and has four additional projects in development.

• Manages a total of eleven supportive housing sites and has won three national awards for the quality of our property management.

• Brings unparalleled depth of knowledge of the property management needs inherent in permanent supportive housing for housing, achieving impressive successes in its management – CHP’s housing retention rate is above 98%; its rent collection rate is 98.8%; and its average vacancy rate 1.2%.

Larkin Street Youth Services

• Has as its mission to create a continuum of services that inspires youth to move beyond the street. Larkin nurtures potential, promote dignity, and support bold steps by all.

• Has become a nationally and internationally recognized leader in the youth services field, offering a full spectrum of care that includes 25 programs through 13 distinct sites throughout San Francisco.

• Is the leading provider of housing and support services to the estimated 5,700 youth who find themselves on San Francisco's streets each year.

• Provides essential wrap-around support, such as healthcare, employment, and education services – all designed to ease their transition into responsible, self-sufficient citizens.

Property Management

Community Housing Partnership, which will be the long-term owner of the Edward II, directly manages all the buildings it owns, and will do so at the Edward II. As both owner and manager, CHP will have a direct investment in maintaining the Edward II as a valuable community asset on a permanent basis.

Property management staffing at the Edward II is expected to include a resident manager who, in addition to serving the full-time building manager during daytime hours, lives on site and is in on-call 24-hours a day. The building manager will work closely with the LSYS tenant services staff to create a secure, safe environment for the residents. CHP will provide maintenance staffing from one of its trained crews of repair professional and anticipates hiring janitorial staff for the building from graduates of one of LSYS’s employment and training programs. The site staff will be under the close supervision of CHP’s Director of Property Management, a property supervisor and the facilities manager. They have a strong focus on safety, security and upkeep at the building and surrounding neighborhood.

CHP’s expertise in managing housing is evidenced by its successful outcomes: building maintenance, emergency response, rates of housing retention, rent collection, and building occupancy all consistently exceed industry standards. No other management company in America, non-profit or for-profit, can boast such success in managing supportive housing.

Supportive Services

Larkin Street Youth Services will offer a complete program of supportive services to the Edward II tenants, provided both by on-site services staff and at Larkin's off-site services centers. Larkin's wraparound services include education, technology and employment training; healthcare, including mental health, substance abuse and HIV services; and case management. Larkin Street’s continuum of care is nationally recognized as a model of innovative and effective care, and we are pleased to be able to serve youth from the full range of populations identified in San Francisco's “Housing for Transitional Age Youth Work Plan”. Larkin's service delivery model is flexible, responding to the individual needs of each particular youth. This services design offers youth the resources and skills they need to reach their full potential and contribute their best to the world.

Central to the services provided at the Edward II will be a focus on increasing tenant self-sufficiency, aiming to prepare residents for independent living in the broader community. Programs addressing this goal will include groups and individual support around topics of daily living skills (cooking, hygiene), money management (budgeting, use of credit cards, savings, Individual Development Accounts), and social skills. In addition, Larkin Street will provide support around living communally (conflict resolution, communication with property management, and managing guests).

The Community

CHP and LSYS are enthusiastic about maintaining strong community involvement in the project from predevelopment through operations. The team has met with staff members from Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier’s office, who have assisted in providing initial community contacts in the Cow Hollow and Marina neighborhoods. The project has been reviewed by the Mayor’s Office of Housing, which gave it a perfect score via their own evaluation. CHP and LSYS are committed to partnering with groups based in the surrounding neighborhoods to continue the project’s community outreach process.

The team plans to convene a Project Advisory Committee that will gather public input and opinions from diverse stakeholders in the Cow Hollow and Marina communities regarding the project development and operation of the building. The PAC will provide a venue for tenants of the building to be part of the community at large, as well as an opportunity for our neighbors to be involved with the development.

CHP contact: Hershey Hirschkop at (415) 929-2470 x310 or email.