Award of Excellence: Golden Inn and Village Affordable Housing Community

摘要

The Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara won a 2017 Award of Excellence in Project Design for building a new affordable housing community for families and seniors that promotes outdoor recreation and social interaction. Nominated from among the NAHRO Award of Merit winners each year, the Awards of Excellence winners are chosen by national juries and honored at the annual National Conference and Exhibition in October. They represent the very best in innovative programs in assisted housing and community development. The Project Design category focuses primarily on the physical or landscape design of a building or project. The Golden Inn project is a 7.3-acre campus-like development in Santa Barbara that offers multigenerational housing and senior services for low-income families. The senior apartments are owned in partnership by Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara (HACSB) (https://hasbarco.org/), Surf Development Company, Rona Barrett Foundation (http://ronabarrettfoundation.org/), MUFG Union Bank (https://www.unionbank.com/), and RRM Design Group (https://www.rrmdesign.com/) built both the senior and family apartment buildings and designed the project site improvement plans. The architectural firm Piekert Group Architects designed five percent of units with mobility features and two percent with communication features. The electrical system was designed by Gray Electrical Consulting & Engineering, LLC and is expected to perform 36 percent better than California’s energy effciency lighting power density requirements. The Santa Ynez Valley community embraced this development from the start, providing both financial support and volunteer services. The senior development has an on-site activities director, beauty shop, card room, commercial kitchen, medical and dental services, and TV parlor. Resident activities and services are provided free of charge by members of the community through the Rona Barrett Foundation’s fundraising and volunteer efforts. The on-site activities director’s salary and activity operating costs are also fully funded by the Rona Barrett Foundation through community fundraising. HACSB provides property management and maintenance staffng.