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. SEP-01-98 TUE 10:32 THE SALVATION ARMY FAX NO. 6123384717 P. 05 • • G. Long Term Affordablility This project is being funded with equity, grants and deferred payment loans, there is no amortizing debt. This will help keep the operating costs down which will also help keep rents down. Initially, the rents on a portion of the units will be subsidized with HUD HOPWA funds. If and when this subsidy expires, the rents will be kept affordable through grants, Salvation Army Bed and Bread funds and through draws from the long term operating subsidy account. H. Relocation This project will be developed on a vacant piece of land and does not requie any relocation. I. Additional Information The Salvation Army has a significant amount of experience providing services to homeless individuals, families and children. The Salvation Army owns and operates the Harbor Light Center which is the largest provider of housing and addiction services to homeless adults in Hennepin County. The Salvation Army also has extensive experience in . providing childcare services, particularly through the St. Paul Core. The Salvation Army, through the Harbor Light Center, provides a variety of programs specifically targeted to difficult to serve homeless populations and those with serious issues. These services include the Special Needs Unit, a safe shelter for 74 vulnerable homeless men and women with mental and physical illness, a sub-acute medical detox facility which provides the only detox beds in the City of Minneapolis, and an in-patient State-licensed drug treatment program, which allows a person 96 days of residential treatment and 5 months of transitional housing, non-sober overnight shelter, and pre- treatment housing for those waiting for an open bed in a treatment program. Taken together, the programs at the Harbor Light Center offer a total of 375 beds for homeless men and women who would otherwise be sleeping on the streets. In 1989 the Minneapolis office of the Salvation Army rehabilitated the building located at 1010 Currie Avenue in order to create the Harbor Light Center. This was a $7.4 million project and created a multi-service center providing shelter and services to homeless men and women. The building includes the Special Needs Unit, a safe shelter for 74 vulnerable homeless men and women with mental and physical illness, a sub-acute medical detox facility, and in-patient State-licensed drug treatment program, non-sober overnight shelter, pre-treatment housing for those waiting for an open bed in a treatment program and 26 units of permanent SRO housing In total the Harbor Light Center provides a total of 375 4110 beds for homeless men and women who would otherwise be sleeping on the streets.