Live + Make
A creative placemaking approach to providing deeply affordable housing anchored in the arts.
- THE PROGRAM -
Imagine Art’s Live+Make Campus - Scheduled to open December 2024!
We broke ground on 2/23/23 and we are over 80% completed! Live + Make is a mixed use, affordable housing project, anchored in the arts, targeting artists and individuals with and without disabilities. Live + Make uniquely embraces a creative placemaking approach that leverages the arts to serve the community’s interests while spearheading broader social justice goals to creatively intersect housing, long-term care, job readiness and food security.
Live+Make Update, Next Steps: Leasing is open for Live+Make. Reach out to Valhalla Management to set up a leasing appointment. See the Housing Checklist to see how you can be prepared for that meeting! Read our FAQ to answer questions you might have about Live+Make. View our floorpans to see the mix of studio-efficiencies, 1 bed, 2 bed and 3 bedroom units.
Be prepared to attend your lease up meeting with Valhalla. Here are the items that you need to have:
Texas ID, current
Social Security Card, copy
Letter of Award / Social Security income
Bank Statement, current (May 2024)
Points of Contact (name, address) of Employer, Physician if you need a live in authorization.
Letter Guarantee (co-signer must be present to verify that they will guarantee the rent).
$20 money order per resident (background checks)
$—- deposit to hold the unit. Valhalla will let you know what this amount will be. Be prepared to secure a money order in the amount of 1 one’s rent.
PURPOSE
Imagine Art is establishing a campus of deeply affordable, multi-family rental housing for low-income artists with and without disabilities. Anchored by 8500 SqFt of a public art space, the campus at 1127 Tillery is the “place” where our mission will be demonstrated. The MISSION of the organization is that we leverage art and place; empowering artists with disabilities who become creative catalysts for changing systems of day habilitation; long-term care, peer support, and affordable housing. This legacy project will become a community asset for the Govalle neighborhood. To learn more about Tillery, and the all of the love put into making this dream a reality, read our “Tillery Vision” excerpt.
STORY
The Live + Make project is a labor of love and one rooted in principles of equity, opportunity, and inclusion. With affordable housing and ecological preservation, this project embodies Austin’s cultural and historical values as a community grounded in the arts. Live+Make is planted in the Govalle Neighborhood, City of Austin District 3.
FUNDED BY…
$50,000 in seed monies were provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Our Town grant that was sponsored by the City of Austin Cultural Arts Division. The Austin Housing Finance Corporation provided a property located at 1127 Tillery Street, in the heart of East Austin. On Dec 1, AHFC awarded $6.5 million dollars and the Tx Department of Housing and Community Affairs provided 4% tax credits for the project.
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PROGRAM CONNECT
If you have any questions regarding our Live + Make program please feel free to complete the form below and one of our team members will contact you shortly. Fill out our INTEREST LIST SURVEY HERE.