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Gramercy Housing Group

1824 4th Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Telephone: (323) 737-7351
Fax: (323) 737-7352
info@gramercyhousinggroup.org

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Number of homeless individuals in Los Angeles County ever night: 73,000

Number of shelter beds in Los Angeles County every night: 16,789

Agency costs for an individual bed every night: $37.00

Transitioning into permanent housing from a shelter... Priceless

Gramercy Court

The two-year affordable housing program at Gramercy Court provides 16 efficiency units of transitional housing linked with an array of social services for single parents ages 18-24 with children. The program immerses parents in comprehensive services to increase their personal assets, self esteem, parenting and employment skills, education, and financial literacy. Upon graduation, each parent will have achieved one or more of the following in addition to moving into long-term housing: received a completed high school diploma or GED, enrolled in college or vocational training, and/or obtained steady employment.

Gramercy Family Center

Provides full-day care and developmentally appropriate curriculum for children living at Gramercy Court and from the local community. The Gramercy staff work together with families to create a positive child-centered living and learning environment that fosters self-esteem, relationship building, creativity, diversity and good communication. As one of very few licensed child-care centers serving low-income families in the area, the Gramercy Family Center empowers each child with hands-on, developmentally appropriate, learning experiences that promote literacy and build the skills necessary for future success.

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“Our staff work together with families to create a positive child-centered living and learning environment that fosters self-esteem,” Gramercy Housing Staff Worker

Success

In reviewing clients over the past five years, it is apparent that Gramercy Court residents have been tremendously successful in achieving their goals. Of the families who stayed more than six months:

75% attended school and/or found employment
90% relocated to affordable permanent housing
95% participated in our childcare and parenting program
100% percent participated in case management

Currently all families are participating in childcare, parenting, and case management.

Anecdotal information also offers a view into our accomplishments: Gramercy alumni remain connected to the agency, and each other, and often call and visit. Our graduates are now employed as bus drivers, vocational nurses, county caseworkers, administrative assistants, and in a variety of other fields. A favorite story is of a former client who boarded a bus and realized that the driver was her former next-door neighbor at Gramercy Court. She rode well past her stop to the route’s end at the beach and back, in order to reminisce with her friend.

Our most important accomplishment is the fact that not one of our clients who successfully completed the program has had her child become a second-generation foster youth. This serves to reaffirm our commitment to this important mission.