Thank you to The Ahmanson Foundation for their most recent contribution to Homes 4 Families’ Palmdale Veteran Enriched Neighborhood®. The Ahmanson Foundation continues to be Homes 4 Families’ greatest supporter, contributing nearly $2,000,000 towards three (3) separate Enriched Neighborhoods® so far.
Along with Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and Lou and Joyce Gonzalez of AV Chevy, they are one of the first major donors to this 56-home community for low-income veterans and their families.
While on its surface, this is an affordable homeownership program, it is, unfortunately, more often than we realize, a homeless program as well. While veteran homelessness continues to be a huge issue in Los Angeles County, there is a high number of veterans who aren’t considered. These are the working veterans who make too much to qualify for housing vouchers, yet are not able to afford rent in areas sufficiently close to their and their spouse’s jobs, affordable childcare, their children’s schools, etc. They are instead couch-surfing, living in garages or cars, and needing to split family members up between different places.
If instead, these families are able to have a healthy living situation with an affordable mortgage and financial literacy training, they can become economically self-sufficient and stable. Even further, if you make sure this opportunity exists within a community that is supportive of veterans with military-friendly employers and resources for their families, the sky is the limit.
The Palmdale Veteran Enriched Neighborhood® will serve 56 low- and very low-income military families with homeownership and financial training, and trauma-informed care through the My TIME (My Trauma-Informed Military Enrichment) program. The homes and community will include the Enriched Neighborhood® veteran-specific design features to help our families live more comfortably and address many of the physical and invisible wounds of war common to combat veterans.
Thank you again to The Ahmanson Foundation for their continued support of veterans, and for all they do for Southern Californians. To help their contribution go even further, please click here.