NORTH HOLLYWOOD : Jewish Group Gets Grant for Senior Citizen Housing
A San Fernando Valley Jewish organization has been awarded a federal grant worth more than $7 million--the second largest of its kind given in California this year--to build a housing complex for low-income seniors.
The Tarzana Lodge of B’nai B’rith received the grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of an annual housing program for the elderly.
The group plans to use the money for a 91-unit apartment complex to be built in 1995 in North Hollywood, where many of its members live. “We’ve been trying for seven years” to get a HUD grant, said lodge spokesman Sy Braverman.
Nicolas Retsinas, a HUD assistant secretary for housing, said the agency funds only about one in eight applicants each year to its Section 202 program. Created by the Housing Act of 1959, the program provides capital to nonprofit groups for developing rental housing and support services for the elderly.
The idea, Braverman said, is “not just to give seniors shelter, but give them social services, too,” including health and recreation programs at the apartment complexes.
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