New Military Veteran Housing Project for Hobart

(artist rendering courtesy: A Safe Haven Foundation)

A Chicago-based nonprofit has announced it will break ground next month on a new 75-unit apartment complex for military veterans in northwest Indiana.

A Safe Haven Foundation says the $20 million project is being built in Hobart in conjunction with the U.S Housing and Urban Development and the Veterans Administration.

The apartments will be made available to low income, senior and disabled military veterans who are referred to the foundation by A Safe Haven by the local veteran’s clinic and Jesse Brown VA hospital that serve northwest Indiana.

“Twenty-five years ago, A Safe Haven Foundation set a new paradigm and standard of care for helping to address the root causes of poverty and homelessness,” said Neli Vazquez Rowland, foundation president. “A Safe Haven is raising the bar again by expanding our portfolio of providing transitional, supportive, affordable, senior and military veteran housing in safe, beautiful and healthy settings.”

The foundation says onsite services will include supportive housing, individualized case management and peer support services.

The housing facility will be known as the Rauner Family Veteran Apartments in honor former Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and his wife who donated $1 million to support financing and on-going support.

The organization hopes to open the apartment complex for veterans in the spring of 2021.