It offers after-school programs and tutoring, GED courses and computer courses. The center also partners with Texas College of Tyler, Texas, to provide college courses to the residents. HUD will provide federal rent subsidies for 15 of the units. Five units are set aside for homeless individuals and families. Many of the units feature views of Lake Union.
Tenants share a common laundry facility and a community room with a mini computer lab.
The rents will be affordable to households with incomes up to 60 percent of area median income. By improving the quality of renter and homeowner education, the competitive grants help families make better, more informed home purchases, improve their ability to budget for needed home expenses and regular mortgage or rent payments, and make the lending process less frightening. The Illinois State Office Community Builder staff has begun an outreach program to tenants of HUD multifamily projects to promote homeownership programs and the purchase of HUD-owned properties. As part of this effort, Fox View Apartments I and II in Carpentersville, Illinois, sponsored a homeownership seminar on January 13. This was the second such event in Illinois.