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Housing Impact Partners
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  • Impact
  • GETHIP.NET
  • Indicators | Resources
  • Leadership Team
    • Meet HIP
    • Sherri Franklin
    • Kimberly Brown
    • Carlton Jenkins

MISSION ALIGNED Impact thesis

HOUSING IMPACT PARTNERS THRIVES AT THE INTERSECTION OF CITIES, COMMUNITIES, PLACES AND PEOPLE

ACCREDITED and Non-Accredited INVESTOR ACCESS PORTAL

Recapturing and Accelerating Affordable and Workforce Housing

Housing Impact Partners is cultivating impact through the acquisition and development of affordable and workforce housing portfolios structured for institutional and private equity investment in concert with community and legacy ownership.  The HIP team is faithfully "in the lab" working to structure portfolios and to foster advocacy to implement the core elements of our impact strategy.

Legacy & Inclusion

The essence of our ethos is to serve as a purveyor of equitable opportunities for small and historically overlooked business enterprises curated from each of our core, core plus and development implementations.

Housing impact partners co-general partnership portfolios

la iconic collection

Value add naturally occurring workforce and affordable housing preservation acquisitions of early 20th century historic and landmark apartment houses and apartment hotels constructed in iconic architectural designs such as Art Deco, Beaux-Arts and Neoclassical

Neighborhood legacy

Los Angeles neighborhood defining, classic, bungalow, craftsman and Spanish revival core plus naturally occurring workforce and affordable housing preservation acquisitions in partnership with legacy real estate investors. 

new ventures

Ready-to-Issue (RTI) permit and merchant builder new construction workforce and affordable housing acquisition and development properties or equity participation offerings.

keystone housing stabilization strategy

Acquisition of single and multifamily housing to preserve and link affordable housing and services for unhoused and special needs stakeholders in partnership with non-profit service providers. 

impact accelerator

 In partnership with leading developers, platforms and institutions, HIP is curating awareness and access to debt and equity capital as well as providing deal structuring technical assistance to emerging platforms and developers.  


“If not us, then who? If not now, then when?”

– Representative John Lewis

the letty mixed-income mixed use development: los angeles

    The Letty is a Ready-to-Issue (RTI) permit new construction mixed-use mixed-income 40-unit seven story multi-family housing and retail development being built at 4920 W. Pico Boulevard @ Highland in the Mid-City community of Los Angeles. The project features 23 one-bedroom one-bath and 17 two-bedroom two-bath very spacious units.  The project will feature a 1,446 sf retail space on the ground floor and a 2,000 sf commercial space on the second floor which will be owner occupied by project developer Dr. Aman Abye's Stay Ready Physical Therapy practice.  The project also features a roof top deck with panoramic views of the city.


    Density bonuses and additional floor height were awarded to the project as part of its Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) approval by the City of Los Angeles Planning Department in exchange for providing 4 dedicated housing units for residents @ or below 30% of the Area Median Income (AMI).  No additional permits or approvals are required to commence construction.


    The project development team includes AUX Architecture as the architect and Urban Design Center in partnership with Pantheon Development as the development advisors.   Housing Equity Partners (HIP) is working in partnership with the development team to structure the proforma analysis scenarios, source investment equity and structure mezzanine financing, if needed.  Dr. Abye and his development team are working to value engineer the construction pricing in advance of making the final contractor selection. Construction is scheduled to commence in May-June 2024 with completion by February 2026.

    FEATURES AND AMENITIES


    • 40 units of one and two bedroom units
    • 10% of units dedicated for residents @ or below 30% AMI
    • 10% of units dedicated for residents @ or below 80% AMI
    • Owner use Stay Ready commercial tenant
    • Ground floor retail for healthy food eatery
    • Rooftop garden and meeting space

    LEGACY


    Dr. Abye is developing 4920 Pico Boulevard @ Highland in honor of his late wife, Letty.  The development will provide quality housing for lower-income residents and the “missing middle”.  Dr. Abye understands that mental and physical health and wellness are essential to thrive as a community.  His development of the Letty will provide  an opportunity to take all his life’s passions and put them together in one place.  To accent the operation of his physical therapy practice, the ground floor storefront commercial space will be made available for another health-oriented venture to add value to this community development project. 


    STAY READY 


    In 2006, Dr. Abye founded Stay Ready Physical Therapy and opened his first private practice manual therapy clinic in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles specializes in the comprehensive evaluations and treatment of orthopedic pathologies of the musculoskeletal system.  Over the next 18 years, Dr. Abye would grow this company to what it is today: four clinics across the greater Los Angeles area, with 50+ employees and thousands of satisfied clients.  Dr. Abye is working to open additional clinics in Inglewood and South LA as well as The Letty.

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