GATES AVENUE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION

Gates Avenue Housing Development Fund Corporation (Gates Avenue HDFC) is a New York not‑for‑profit housing affiliate that owns and operates the transitional residence at 520 Gates Avenue in Bedford‑Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The property has served as the original site for the Ready, Willing & Able residential program since its renovation and opening in 1990 and provides residential and supportive services to men transitioning from homelessness and incarceration. Gates Avenue HDFC operates as an affiliated housing entity under The Doe Fund, Inc.; it appears on The Doe Fund’s audited consolidated financial statements and related filings and files its own IRS Form 990. In recent years the affiliate has been part of a multi‑year capital program and redevelopment effort in the Gates Avenue campus (including financing and construction activity at adjacent 510 Gates Avenue) to expand and modernize transitional housing capacity and building systems. The organization functions as a property‑owning HDFC that enables The Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able model (paid transitional work, housing, and case‑management services) by providing long‑term ownership and stewardship of the Gates Avenue facility and related capital projects.