Plymouth is profoundly grateful to the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound for their amazingly generous grant of $215,000. This grant will fully furnish all of the apartments and common spaces in Sylvia’s Place, currently under construction at 3rd & Virginia in Belltown!

 

Plymouth Housing Group has received support from the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound for many of our developments, and we are quite honored to be able to continue this wonderful relationship with Sylvia’s Place.

Sylvia’s Place will be Plymouth’s 14th building. When it opens in early 2016, all 63 tenant units in Sylvia’s Place will be available for residents in Plymouth’s “graduation” program, called HOP (Housing Options Program).

HOP offers a rewarding growth step for stellar tenants who have worked hard to achieve long-term success in our homeless housing with 24/7 support and are equipped to live more independently.

Plymouth began the HOP program in 2006, and we were the first in the low-income housing sector attempting such an experiment. Sylvia’s Place represents our first opportunity to focus solely on HOP graduates in a new development.

Building Sylvia’s Place will more than double our capacity to provide a motivating and success-oriented growth step for formerly homeless men and women who (through years of participation in our support programs, a consistent record of timely rent payments, and service as a good neighbor to the community in their building) have demonstrated their readiness to “graduate.”

“Plymouth is profoundly grateful to the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound. Your support made it possible for 63 of our most successful residents, all of whom had been homeless for many years before moving to Plymouth, to “graduate” to more independent living in our newest building, Sylvia’s Place, which you furnished.  This will more than double our number of graduates, who are committed to working hard to be good neighbors—a value they share with the men and women of Boeing.”

–Paul Lambros, Executive Director, Plymouth Housing Group

 

Both the direct and indirect outcomes of Sylvia’s Place are substantial.

–63 once chronically-homeless single adults will graduate from buildings with 24/7 on-site case management and property management to an environment more like a regular apartment building, where they live more independently but can access Plymouth services if needed.

–The average cost of a year of 24/7 supportive housing at Plymouth is only $14,000 (compared to the more than $100,000 it can cost the public for a person on the streets). The average annual cost for a graduation tenant is only $9,900, a 30% reduction in our already-low operating costs! So Sylvia’s Place will also enable Plymouth to increase the impressive public cost savings we already deliver.

–When 63 HOP tenants graduate, 63 currently homeless single adults will move off the streets and out of shelters and into the units the HOP tenants vacate. The intensive 24/7 services these units offer will maximize the likelihood that these tenants can break the cycle of homelessness for good.

–When these 63 new tenants move off the streets and receive on-site services at Plymouth, they no longer compete for shelter beds and their use of publicly funded emergency rooms and psychiatric care is greatly reduced.

–Sylvia’s Place, and its ground floor retail spaces will enhance safety, attractiveness, and economic vitality on a major block of downtown Seattle’s Third Avenue corridor.

 

THANK YOU to the generous men & women of the Employees Community Fund of Boeing Puget Sound!