Regional Spotlight: Cloverleaf Apartments Spotlight There are few housing options for homeless single adults in South Hampton Roads.  According to local estimates, on any night, there are approximately 427 homeless single adults in Norfolk, 180 in Virginia Beach, 137 in Portsmouth, and 77 in Chesapeake. Cloverleaf Apartments is a cooperative effort between the cities of Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake and Portsmouth to provide permanent supportive housing for this population.  Cloverleaf’s sixty efficiency apartments will be allocated based on each locality’s contribution:  forty-five units are reserved for homeless adults from Virginia Beach, eleven from Norfolk, and two each from Chesapeake and Portsmouth.  Residents sign leases and pay 30% of their income in rent.  The minimum monthly payment from a resident is $50.  Support services are available to help residents stabilize and improve their health, incomes, and housing. Each of the sixty efficiency units will contain a bed, dresser, table, chair, kitchenette, and full bathroom.  Two of the units will be completely accessible with roll-in showers.  The building will have an extensive security system and off-street parking.  The exterior will be approximately 60% brick with hardi-plank siding. In addition to apartments, the renovated building will contain a community room, laundry facilities, a front desk, staff offices, a computer room, and an exercise room.  The front desk will be staffed sixteen hours per day, and a resident manager will be on duty in the evenings.  Cloverleaf Apartments will be located at 964 South Military Highway in Virginia Beach.  With the adaptive reuse of the College Park Skate Rink, Virginia Supportive Housing (VSH) will create the second permanent supportive housing development for homeless adults in the region, the first utilizing Earthcraft green building and energy efficiency standards. Total development costs are estimated at $7.2 million.  Proposed project financing includes the syndication of Low Income Housing Tax Credits, $1.3 million in city funds from Virginia Beach, $360,000 in city funds from Norfolk, $60,000 in HOME and CDBG funds from Portsmouth, $60,000 in HOME and CDBG funds from Chesapeake, HOME loan funds from the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development, SPARC loan funds from the Virginia Housing Development Authority, and grant funds from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta and private foundations. Hampton Roads became the first region in country to create a regional permanent supportive housing solution for homeless single adults when Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach pooled the HUD dollars to create Gosnold Apartments in Norfolk which opened in December 2006.  Cloverleaf Apartments is the second such regional effort, and VSH hopes to develop a third regional efficiency apartment complex for homeless single adults in Portsmouth.  Efficiency Housing of South Hampton Roads (EHSHR), a regional homeless planning committee coordinated by The Planning Council, invited VSH to develop permanent supportive housing in the region. LINK: Make Room Hampton Roads Regional Spotlight Archive: Read More About What's Working in Hampton Roads