The 2014 event, titled “Changing Lives / Making History,” will take place at the London West Hollywood, 1020 N. San Vicente Blvd., south of Sunset. It is the major fund-raising event for WHMC, whose mission is to provide safe and affordable housing for people of limited income.
WHCHC’s “Game Changer Award” will be presented to retired Federal judge Vaughn R. Walker, who will also serve as the event’s keynote speaker. Judge Walker got national attention in 2008 with his ruling striking down Proposition 8, which banned same-sex marriage in California. Walker, first nominated to the federal bench in 1989 by then-President George H.W. Bush, retired in 2011 and now practices arbitration and mediation in San Francisco and teaches law at Stanford University and at the University of California at Berkeley.
The “Lifetime Achievement Award” will honor Edmund D. Edelman. Edelman, a native of Los Angeles, served on the L.A. County Angeles Board of Supervisors from 1975 to 1994 and was a Los Angeles City Council member from 1965 to 1974. He was an early proponent of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and an advocate for women and children, people with disabilities, people with mental illness, people living with HIV and AIDS, and people recovering from substance abuse. The award will be accepted on his behalf by his wife, Mari Edelman.
The “Community Vision Award” will recognize the contributions of the nonprofit organization Shelter Partnership, which works to alleviate, prevent, and end homelessness. Shelter Partnership works with community-based organizations throughout L.A. County to provide program support, policy resources and technical assistance. In addition, Shelter Partnership provides non-perishable food and goods to organizations through its Shelter Resource Bank.
WHCHC was founded in 1986. It develops environmentally sensitive and architecturally distinguished buildings that reflect and complement surrounding neighborhoods and make efficient use of scarce public and private resources by carefully controlling costs.
WHCHC has developed 16 apartment communities in West Hollywood, Glendale and Los Angeles that house more than 600 people, including seniors living on fixed-incomes, people living with disabilities and special needs including HIV/AIDS and low-income working households. A newly expanded Resident Services Program provides both on-site and off-site assistance to residents. In addition, WHCHC maintains a development pipeline of two or three projects in pre-development and one in construction stage. It recently announced the completion of The Courtyard at La Brea, a 32-unit apartment building located at 1145 North La Brea Ave. north of Santa Monica Boulevard.
Sponsorship and ticket information for the event is available by contacting Sue Bender, WHCHC’s director of resource development, by telephone at (323) 650-8771, extension 22, or by email at sue@whchc.org.
OMG! WOW! Really?! Jesus, are you people utterly delusional? Open your eyes, the building looks cheap and tacky.
Whose idea was it to install this bizarre white zebra print siding? It’s already rusting. If the idea was to compliment the worst of low income neighbourhoods then mission accomplished.
This is like some grade school art project where the teacher asked for something ‘different’ …just because it’s ‘different’ does not mean it’s innovative and/or tasteful.
This is great and hope the city has funds for more projects like these.