Family Services of Western Pennsylvania

Fswp constructed a four floor affordable housing apartment building with co-located behavioral health Services. The building includes thirty-six one, two and three bedroom apartments. The embedded supportive housing Services will be provided by wfs. The residential portion of the building was financed, in part, by amounts provided pursuant to the low-income housing tax credit program. Fswp also secured grant funding and loaned it to the construction project. Fswp is considered the developer of the project for the residential portion and aspire development properties gp llc, of which fswp is the sole member, is the developer for the commercial side of the building. The commercial side holds offices for wfs staff and was funded, in part, by amounts provided pursuant to the new markets tax credit program. The goal in constructing the building is to link residents to Services provided by wfs staff, which is expected to increase the tenure of the residents of the building; thereby, minimizing vacancies. This model is seen as an innovative solution to improve the sense of community and increase the capacities of the tenants in the building. The building opened in the fall of 2020.

As a result of becoming a member organization of wfs in 2017 and migrating its operations to wfs through june 2019, Family Services of Western pa (fswp) no longer provides direct programming in the same way it historically had. However, fswp still holds restricted funds for programs it previously operated. These funds will be used and expensed over time, some of which occurred during fy23.