In South Los Angeles, BRIDGE is honored to team up on Evermont with the Coalition for Responsible Community Development, Primestor Development, Metro, the County and City of Los Angeles and a community of dedicated partners. For 180 family and senior households, Evermont will deliver quality affordable and permanent supportive housing with the services people need to thrive. The development goes beyond housing to provide the retail, transit, education and jobs that will bring healing to this site, which has been vacant since the 1992 LA uprising.

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In downtown Berkeley, construction continues apace on BRIDGE’s Berkeley Way Apartments, with 89 affordable homes for families, and Berkeley Food & Housing Project’s BFHP Hope Center, with 53 permanent supportive housing apartments, a homeless shelter, transitional beds for homeless veterans, a community kitchen and wrap-around services. Designed by Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects. Photos by Nibbi Brothers General Contractors.

Save the date for BRIDGE’s 4th Annual Stein & Colwell Scholarships Celebration on October 13, 2022 at 5:30pm! We’re looking forward to celebrating scholarship recipients and our generous donors. Make a gift today to support our work to promote advancement and opportunity through education.

Last month in Los Angeles, BRIDGE partnered with Haven Neighborhood Services to bring the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program to Jordan Downs for the first time. VITA volunteers helped qualified community members file 19 returns, resulting in $258,000 in tax refunds and credits for Jordan Downs and Watts-area residents. Thanks to El Nido Family Centers, Better Tomorrows, the Children’s Institute and Watts LA WorkSource Center for leading outreach, and to OneWest Bank for providing tacos and refreshments!

The San Francisco Business Times has named BRIDGE “Nonprofit Developer of the Year.” Accepting the award, from left: EVP and Chief of Staff Thuong Luong, EVP Brad Wiblin, President and CEO Ken Lombard, and EVP Smitha Seshadri. We share this honor with our partners at the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing and Community Development, the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure, AvalonBay Communities, HomeRise, Berkeley Food & Housing Project, Mission Housing Development Corporation, The Unity Council and The John Stewart Company. Thank you!

Broadway Cove (pictured) and 735 Davis in San Francisco, and Cedar Grove at Jordan Downs in Los Angeles were honored with 2022 Awards of Excellence from the National Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies (NALHFA). These competitive, national awards recognize local housing finance agencies and the critical work they do to provide affordable housing in their communities. Eric Shaw, Director of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Housing, and Ed Gipson, Director of Finance and Development for the Los Angeles Housing Department, accepted the awards with BRIDGE at NALHFA’s annual conference this month. Photo by Bruce Damonte.