Robert K. Ross Center for Hope & Healing
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When complete, the residential component of the campus will provide 124 affordable and supportive one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartment homes provide options for large and/or intergenerational low-income families. Additionally, the campus will provide approximately 66,000 square feet of community service space.
124
Affordable housing units
66,000
Square feet of community service space
Proposed uses of the community space
The Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing will expand access to health and wellness services, promote healing and improve access to basic services for Linc residents and neighbors in the surrounding community. This may include:
- Service Coordination
- Community Kitchen & Food Access
- Basic Needs & Personal Hygiene Services
- Physical & Mental Health Services
- Counseling
- Learning Skills & Classrooms
- Workforce Development
- Creative Arts Therapy
- Community Gathering
- Restorative Healing Space
Gather and Spirit Hub
Mind and Body Hub
Spaces dedicated to mental and physical health services to holistically care for the community.
Work and Learn Hub
Classrooms and other amenity spaces designed to promote learning, skills-building, and entrepreneurship.
A Model for Change
Through services that target justice-impacted populations, this campus will be a model for what is possible when re-imagining alternatives to incarceration locally and nation-wide.
Who is it for?
The affordable apartment homes and community service space are designed to address the needs of people who were impacted by the justice system and/or formerly unhoused, as well as the predominantly low-income residents of the surrounding communities — namely Chinatown — who have been impacted by gentrification and displacement.
Serving low-income households earning between 30-60 percent Area Median Income (AMI) will be the focus, with a percentage of units dedicated for Coordinated Entry System (CES)-based supportive housing for formerly unhoused households.
When will the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing be built?
Community engagement and planning is taking place between 2021 and 2025. Construction is anticipated to start in 2027 with the goal of completing construction in 2028/2029. Please see the detailed timeline below for more information.
Where will the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing be built?
Linc Housing and The California Endowment is engaging the community surrounding the TCE headquarters to transform a 1.95-acre underutilized backlot at 1000 North Alameda St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 into the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing.
Why is the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing be built?
The Robert K. Ross Center for hope and healing will provide much-needed affordable housing while uplifting the surrounding neighborhood by providing over 66,000 square feet of space for community organizations to offer services.
Project Timeline
Partnerships & Funding
Linc Housing is collaborating with The California Endowment, Homeboy Industries, and other partners to advance housing stability and provide essential services for justice-impacted, formerly unhoused, and community members from the neighborhood surrounding the campus..
The affordable housing project will be financed with traditional debt, state and local funds, tax-exempt bonds, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits. The California Endowment is providing the land and supplemental capital funding for the community serving space and will work with Linc Housing to raise additional funding and create partnerships.
In 2021, The California Endowment engaged Kounkuey Design to lead a nine-month community engagement process to better understand community needs and possibilities for the development of the backlot. In 2022, TCE released a Request for Proposals to solicit proposals for an affordable housing and services developer and in early 2023 TCE selected Linc Housing to lead the planning, design, funding, construction, and operation of the development. Studio One Eleven has been appointed as the architect for this project, and the Florence Aliese Advancement Network is serving as the community engagement consultant.
Developer
Linc Housing
Development Partner
The California Endowment
Architect
Studio One Eleven
Community Engagement Consultant
Florence Aliese Advancement Network
Robert K. Ross Center for Hope & Healing Backstory
The concept of the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing dates to 2019 when the leadership of the California Endowment began dreaming with Homeboy Industries about ways the properties owned by these two organizations and the surrounding underutilized real estate. could advance the wellbeing of Los Angeles’ most marginalized populations.
Leaders recognized that the proximity of TCE and Homeboy to several important sites like William Mead Homes, Hilda S. Solis Care First Village, and county and city-owned properties, presented an opportunity to weave together a comprehensive fabric of community supports and connectiveness— a village of hope. These early conversations coincided with Dr. Robert Ross chairing the Los Angeles County Alternatives to Incarceration Commission. Over time, conversations reimagining the surrounding community gave birth to the vision for the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing.
Dr. Robert K. Ross
TCE President and CEO
Community Advisory Board
To inform the various project stages, the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing project team is creating many community engagement opportunities to solicit specific feedback as needed. The Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing Community Advisory Board (CAB) is one such opportunity and was formed to advise on project development and operations.
The CAB seeks to be a time-limited convening of diverse stakeholders managed by Linc Housing and Florence Aliese Advancement Network for the sole purpose of providing input on specific project stages. While the CAB may participate in more in-depth conversations on project components, its input is advisory and will be considered on par with other feedback processes hosted by the Robert K. Ross Center for Hope and Healing project team.
Interested in being a part of the CAB?
To encourage a variation of opinions and experiences, we are actively recruiting community members or organizational representatives who meet the following criteria.
- Persons returning to community after incarceration
- Persons living with disabilities
- Youth (ages 16 to 24)
- Elders (aged 55+)
- Legacy community members representing the historical and cultural history of the project area
- Neighborhood residents residing within proximity to the project site
- Housing justice and care-first (justice reinvestment) advocates
- Business owners and vendors from neighborhoods adjacent to the project site
If you prefer a paper copy or need assistance in completing the form, please email: rosscenter@linchousing.org.
Community Survey
Events
Elevate & Celebrate Gala
Honoring Dr. Robert K. Ross of The California Endowment on July 18, 2024
Contact
Address
800 North Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
OFFICE HOURS
TBD
GENERAL INFO
Units: 124 Community Service Space: 66,000+ SF Lot Size: 1.98 acres Year Opening: 2029