Low-Cost Housing Complex Opens for Large Families
An affordable housing complex in the West Adams District built by the FAME Housing Corp. in conjunction with the city’s Community Redevelopment Agency was dedicated Thursday at an outdoor ceremony attended by about 100 residents and officials.
FAME Gardens, an 81-unit apartment structure designed to house large families, cost $16.9 million to build, $8 million of which came from the redevelopment agency, FAME officials said.
The FAME Housing Corp. is a nonprofit housing development branch of the First AME Church.
More than 60 families have moved into the complex, which provides after-school tutors at a library on the premises, officials said. There are also plans for a day-care center.
“This helps to fill the gap in South-Central Los Angeles,” said FAME spokeswoman Karen Caffee. “It gives people the opportunity to live in the communities that they know, and to live well and decently without having to move to the Westside and pay more.”
Christine Essel, chairwoman of the Community Redevelopment Agency, called the FAME Gardens “emblematic of the rebirth happening in South Los Angeles . . . an anchor of revitalization and strength.”
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