By InBusiness Phoenix
Copa Health’s La Victoria Commons is about a month away from its official groundbreaking, but with the extraordinary predevelopment work and relationship building to meet goals of integrated health care and community benefits for existing neighbors, the project already is a mixed-use affordable housing development like no other in Arizona.
The $40 million, transit-oriented development project in east Tempe is an innovative, inclusive response to an urgent need for affordable housing in the Valley and a next-level practice of a Copa Health guiding philosophy that housing is health care.
“You cannot treat a person on the health care side as it relates to their psychiatric services, as it relates to their behavioral health conditions, as it relates to their intellectual and developmental disabilities — really the complex needs of our members — you cannot meet it without the housing support side,” Shar Najafi-Piper, CEO of Copa Health, said.
