A $20 million development three years in the making will provide housing for low-income, senior and disabled veterans in Hobart.
The Chicago-based A Safe Haven Foundation on March 25 announced it expects to open The Rauner Family Veteran Apartments by A Safe Haven Foundation, 75-unit apartment complex for veterans, by spring 2021. Apartments will be available to disabled veterans referred to Safe Haven through the Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.
The complex will offer additional services including, individualized case management and peer support services. A groundbreaking is tentatively planned for next month.
In addition to more than $20 million in Federal HUD/VA rental housing tax credits, bonds and other financing through the Indiana Housing and Community Development Authority, former Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner and his wife, Diana, gifted $1 million to A Safe Haven Foundation to support the project.
“Twenty-five years ago, A Safe Haven Foundation set a new paradigm and standard of care for helping to address the root causes of poverty and homelessness,” said Neli Vazquez Rowland, president of A Safe Haven Foundation. “We are so proud to have the opportunity to help build beautiful award-winning homes for our nation’s heroes and to make our vision of a new affordable veteran housing project in the state of Indiana a reality.”
A Safe Haven Foundation spent nearly three years, working with development firm KMA Companies of Chicago and the city of Hobart to make the project happen. State agencies including the Indiana Housing Community Development Authority and local organizations including the Lake County Community Economic Development Department also collaborated on the development.
