DISABLED-HOUSING PROJECT GETS LIFT.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer GLENDALE - The Housing Authority on Tuesday gave a boost to a 24-unit apartment project for the disabled by giving a $163,500 loan to the nonprofit behind the effort. Construction of the $9.6 million development could begin in 18 months. If approved later by the Redevelopment Agency, United Cerebral Palsy United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), sometimes known as United Cerebral Palsy Associations, is a network of affiliated groups in the United States which works to "advance the independence, productivity and full citizenship of people with disabilities" (from UCP's mission statement), of Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties would build the complex on a site on the 6200 block of San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the . UCP (Universal Communication Platform AG, Lugano, Switzerland) A software company that specialized in mobile phone services, founded in 1999 by Christian Lutz and Marwan Saba. Its offerings included SMS voting and mobile marketing tools, photo messaging platforms and custom applications for will use the loan to pay for pre-construction work as it tries to persuade state officials to provide $2 million to round out the project's budget. It also has received $3.1 million from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development. The group has a similar 18-unit apartment building in Burbank that opened last month, and residents are just starting to move in. "It is absolutely gorgeous," said Ron Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of UCP. "And it meets the litmus test litmus test n. A test for chemical acidity or basicity using litmus paper. . And the litmus test is I would have my child live in it; I would live in it." In Glendale, the city bought a decrepit apartment complex on the site and had it torn down because residents there were crowded into units that had rodents, lacked heat or were missing smoke detectors. The city spent $3.6 million buying the site and relocating the tenants, City Manager Jim Starbird said. But residents accused the city of pushing disabled housing into the industrial outskirts of the city. "Is that what the city leaders want?" resident Patrick Masihi said during Tuesday's Housing Authority meeting. "Basically just to dump the disabled on the periphery?" alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (818) 546-3304 |
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