By Leslie Nguyen-Okwu, Mission Local
Before its closure in 2010, a house called “Marty’s Place” served as a private homeless shelter for those living with HIV/AIDS. Soon the longtime institution, on Treat and 25th, will open again; when it does, it will become the first permanently affordable housing cooperative for the city’s LGBTQ community living with HIV/AIDS.
A Victorian built in 1895 whose muraled garage door opens out to Balmy Alley, Marty’s Place offers a particularly charming new model for affordable housing. It will be owned and managed by the tenants who inhabit it.
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