INDIANAPOLIS — Today Mayor Joe Hogsett and the City of Indianapolis Department of Metropolitan Development (DMD) recently announced $7.8 million in support of four developments for permanent supportive housing totaling 104 units. Leveraging local and state resources, these developments forward the city’s goal of creating more permanent supportive housing.
“Since unveiling the Community Plan to End Homelessness in 2018, the City and its partners have worked to implement a Housing First model that would change how our community responds to homelessness in Indianapolis,” said Mayor Joe Hogsett. “The solution to homelessness is housing, and we continue to invest in that approach even as we take on new and unforeseen challenges brought on by the pandemic. Today, that comes in the form of the City’s largest single investment to date into boosting our stock of permanent supportive housing.”
The developments are:
• Compass on Washington, located next to Horizon House on East Washington St. Compass on Washington will add 36 one-bedroom units of supportive housing. This partnership with Horizon House, Englewood CDC, and Gratus Development received $3.5 million
in CDBG-CV and $400,000 from the Housing Trust Fund from DMD. Compass on Washington expects to open in 2024.
• Hanna Commons will have 50 units and will address homelessness throuh permanent, multi-family housing. The project will be in partnership with the South Indy Quality of Life Plan, UP Development LLC, Adult & Child, and Southeast Neighborhood Development. DMD has awarded this project $1.4 million total, with $1,000,000 coming from HOME and $400,000 in Housing Trust Fund.
• Providence Place, to be located at 4635 E. 21st St., will be an 8 one- and two-bedroom units of permanent supportive housing for individuals exiting homelessness. DMD supported this project led by Englewood CDC, Living Word Baptist Church, and A Place Empowering People with $551,062 in HOME funds.
• St. Lucas Lofts will host 10 units of integrated supportive housing for individuals who are recovering from homelessness in partnership with Englewood CDC, Outreach Indiana, and Adult & Child Services. Supported with $2,000,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds from DMD, St. Lucas Lofts is expected to open in the first quarter of 2024. The project will be located at Rural and Washington streets.
In August 2022, Mayor Hogsett launched the City’s first-ever supportive housing task force composed of affordable housing developers, service providers, funders, CHIP, and the Indianapolis Housing Agency. This group is tasked with increasing the supply of supportive housing, finding creative financing to lessen the time it takes to develop supportive housing, and fundraising for the Housing to Recovery Fund.
