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With homelessness, physical health and mental health

continuing to be among the pressing issues in historic Filipino town

the community is continuing to find ways to address them

and one of the newest solutions is the Lucena Encore

a housing complex and community space built on what used to be an ice cream cone factory.

This was the Krispy K. Cone Company.

Anybody remember that?

So we'd wake up to the smell of these sugar, these ice cream sugar cones

in production in the morning and my pop would, our pop would walk over

and he'd knock on the door and he'd ask for any broken shells that they'd be willing to give him.

They'd always come back with a garbage bag full and we'd eat them warm in the morning

and it was a special memory.

And to see what this has become over the decades

and that we're not just getting broken shells anymore

we're getting housing.

We're getting wraparound services that's directly connected to the need of our community

and to see that is really, like I was sitting over here and I was like, hey, you okay?

I'm tripping.

Lucena Encore is a new mixed-based affordable housing complex in historic Filipino town.

The project took about a year and a half to complete

and is operated by Meta Housing and Foundation for Affordable Housing.

The Filipino-led non-profit group to search to involve Filipino Americans or SIPA

has partnered with the project.

With them, opening its Hi-Fi Well-Being Center inside the Lucena Encore.

This project brings 46,100% affordable housing to the historic Filipino town.

Thank you.

We're incredibly grateful to be partners with SIPA

to be able to work with the local non-profit that's rooted in this community

and also makes back to this community is very meaningful to us.

So, we really value your partnership.

This project is also one of our first to adopt enhanced accessibility features.

The project is such a great example of how public and private partnerships

can work together to create lasting change.

For the 51-year-old SIPA, this is a chance to reach out to more residents within the neighborhood.

They recently opened their main headquarters with a housing complex down the street

and have partnered with several other affordable housing projects throughout the city.

SIPA's Wellness Center at Lucena Encore will be operating many of their physical

and mental health services.

along with food distribution and even counseling services.

It's really important to have a place like this for residents of historic Filipino town.

As you said, coming out of the pandemic has been really challenging.

The economic conditions currently really do impact the most vulnerable.

So, you know, opening up 45 units of affordable housing is really important

in historic Filipino town where cost of living is going up tremendously.

And so,

for us, our services, we want to be very responsive to what residents in Hi-Fi need,

what even the residents here in Lucena Encore need.

And so, we'll continue to keep listening and continue to respond to that.

As a family doctor for the last 27 years, anything where a community organization

is doing something for the health of a particular community is huge.

This is a tremendous step for us.

So, I think that, you know, we as a medical community

haven't really closed a lot of those doors.

We haven't really closed a lot of those doors.

The quality gaps, our expectations for health is really, really high.

And for SIPA to take this tremendous step in addressing health in a particular community is gigantic.

And I'm very proud to be part of that.

Information on how to avail SIPA's programs from well-being to housing and community events

can be found on their website, sipacares.org.

Steve Angeles, ABS-CBN News, Los Angeles.

Thank you for watching!