A Brighter Future for This California Community
The Village at Beechwood, a low-income apartment community in Lancaster, benefits from solar program.
The apartment community serves 100 limited-income families and recent efforts to implement energy upgrades, including a solar rooftop system, have helped to build community, benefit residents and strengthen the neighborhood.
A rebate from the Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing Program, administered by Southern California Edison, partially funded the effort.
The nonprofit LINC Housing Corporation purchased the Lancaster apartments in 2002 to preserve affordability for limited-income families over the next 55 years. Once known as “crack alley” by local residents, this community in Lancaster has seen major changes for the better, including physical improvements to the apartments and common areas and a new name. Today the community is known as the Village at Beechwood.
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