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Veterans’ apartments at The Freelon at Sugar Hill employ best practices in trauma-informed design

December 11, 2023

The veterans’ apartments at The Freelon at Sugar Hill are featured in the December issue of Tax Credit Advisor (An Architect’s Legacy Helps Homeless Veterans). POAH Vice President, Community Redevelopment Julie DeGraaf Velázquez shares how the development“employed best practices in trauma-informed design, a key component of POAH’s development and management approach.

They really took it to heart as to what kind of colors, what kind of patterns, how you ordered the furniture, how you attenuate sound and then personalized each apartment. It was beyond what I had imagined for it.

 

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