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Section 2. About Eden Housing Application | Parrott Street Apartments <br />September 2017 <br /> 6 <br />2. About Eden Housing <br />A. Eden Housing Mission and History <br />The mission of Eden Housing is to build and maintain high <br />quality, well‐managed, service‐enhanced affordable <br />housing communities that meet the needs of lower income <br />families, seniors, and persons with disabilities. <br /> <br />Eden Housing is one of the oldest and most experienced <br />affordable housing non‐profit organizations in the state of <br />California. Since our inception in 1968, Eden has <br />developed, acquired, or rehabilitated more than 10,000 <br />affordable units and currently provides homes to more <br />than 22,000 lower‐income residents. As a mission‐driven <br />non‐profit, we serve low‐ and moderate‐income families, <br />seniors, and people living with disabilities. Incomes of our <br />residents typically range from 20% to 60% of the area <br />median income. <br /> <br />In San Leandro, Eden Housing is pleased to be the largest <br />affordable housing non‐profit organization, providing 516 <br />affordable homes to the community. Eden owns and <br />manages seven affordable housing communities: Estabrook Place, Fuller Gardens, Fuller Lodge, Eden <br />Lodge, Ashland Village, The Surf, and Las Palmas. More details of our most recent developments and <br />rehabilitated buildings in San Leandro are in Section 2(C): Eden Housing in San Leandro. <br /> <br />As a testament to our long‐term commitment to the housing we manage, Eden completed an $18 million <br />renovation of Las Palmas Apartments in San Leandro earlier this year. Eden acquired Las Palmas from <br />Citizens Housing in 2010, and we put together a plan to renovate the aging development to better serve <br />our residents for the years to come. The renovation included upgrading the building envelopes and <br />windows; updating mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems; enhancing mobility and access; making <br />improvements to common areas and unit interiors; and “greening” and “blueing” the properties with <br />energy and water efficiency improvements and solar energy technology. <br /> <br />Eden Housing has been named one of the Top 50 affordable housing companies in the nation nine times <br />by Affordable Housing Finance Magazine, the leading national publication that ranks and reviews <br />affordable housing. <br /> <br />Eden Housing’s Activist Roots  <br />Eden Housing was founded in May of 1968 by six  <br />community activists who were greatly concerned  <br />about the lack of non‐discriminatory, affordable  <br />housing in Alameda County. These pioneers,  <br />working out of makeshift "headquarters" such as  <br />local coffee shops, were initiated into affordable  <br />housing development by rehabilitating six older  <br />homes in Oakland for first time homebuyer  <br />families. Their next project was a new construction  <br />150‐unit development for seniors, Josephine Lum  <br />Lodge in Hayward.   <br />  <br />It is a development we still own today and  <br />renovated in 2010, including rehabilitation of the  <br />units, updates to the common spaces, and the  <br />addition of a new commercial kitchen.  <br />55