Doris, 71, walks briskly around San Bernardino’s Valencia Vista community every day, cane in hand, smiling and waving as children, teens, parents and even other seniors wave back and call out “grandma!” as she strolls by.
“This is a great community – the people who live and work here are all nice and the area is safe,” Doris said. “I love it!”
It wasn’t always that way.
Doris first moved to the community 13 years ago, when it was the Waterman Gardens Residential Community, an aging collection of 270 public housing apartments built in 1943 that included temporary, war-time housing. Doris said she worried about her safety and hesitated to leave her apartment.
In 2014, the Housing Authority of the County of San Bernardino (HACSB) and National CORE, one of the nation’s leading developers of affordable housing, launched an ambitious plan to re-imagine the development into a vibrant, mixed-use, mixed-income, sustainable community for individuals and families.
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