MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 16 , 2006
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Century Housing Announces $2.6 Million Loan to Create 13 Townhomes Affordable to Working Families in Pico-Union Neighborhood
Culver City, CA – Century Housing, one of California’s largest nonprofit housing lenders, announces the closing of a $2.6 million construction loan to Pico Union Housing Corporation, for the creation of Pascual Reyes, a 13-family townhome development in the Pico-Union neighborhood of Los Angeles.
All of the project’s four-bedroom homes will be priced affordably for families earning less than approximately $35,000 per year.
“Century is pleased to collaborate with Pico Union Housing to help create homes for 13 families, who at their lower income levels are currently shut out of the housing market in the Los Angeles area,” said G. Allan Kingston, President & CEO of Century Housing.
The $5.1 million development is expected to be completed in April, 2007.
Century Housing is a private nonprofit affordable housing lender, which has used more than $400 million in financing to help create more than 13,000 quality rental and ownership homes in the metropolitan Los Angeles area, affordable to families earning approximately $16,000 to$80,000 a year. Century’s President & CEO, G. Allan Kingston, recently completed a three-year term as Chairman of the Board of Governors for the National Housing Conference. Century links its financing with the More Than Shelter ® family of social services, including after-school tutoring for at-risk students, career counseling for men and women to enter the construction trades, child development for low-income families, and wellness programs for seniors. For more information on Century Housing, please visit our website: www.centuryhousing.org
To contribute to More Than Shelter, which supports all of Century’s More Than Shelter® life-enriching programs, please visit www.morethanshelter.org.