About Us

MJ Housing & Services specializes in enhancing the lives of seniors and families living in affordable housing communities across the United States. We provide quality service coordination and educational programming focused on empowering our senior and disabled residents to live independently and our families to be economically self-sufficient.

Currently, MJ Housing & Services serves over 10,000 residents at 80 affordable housing communities. Each apartment complex offers free, comprehensive services to all interested residents on-site. Culturally sensitive services are provided to all of our residents, including the most needy low income populations. 

MJ Housing provides full service employment, training, supervision, grant administration and 3rd party Quality Assurance on a national level.

Leadership

Madelyne J. Pfeiffer, M.S.W, C.F.R.E

Madelyne J. Pfeiffer is Founder and CEO of MJ Housing & Services, Inc., a company specializing in aging services, service coordination, coordinated care, quality assurance, and fund Raising focused on low income seniors and disabled individuals. She is an accomplished leader with a strong background in developing innovative team models and developing mutually beneficial partnerships. 

Ms. Pfeiffer has a history of success generating funds through grants and bank community reinvestment funds to subsidize innovative programs for seniors and disabled adults living in affordable housing communities across the United States.

Ms. Pfeiffer has a BA from Claremont McKenna College in psychology and fine arts and a Masters in Social Work (MSW) from USC, and a Certificate in Fundraising (CFRE) from Indiana University. 

Ms. Pfeiffer is currently an AASC faculty and travels nationally providing consulting and training to developers, property management companies, service providers and health care companies.

Charles A. Brown

As the Director of Administration, Ara is responsible for generating positive revenue growth, maintaining program and administrative compliance, and harmonizing operations.

Through Ara’s organizational skills, strategic planning, and thoughtful relationship management, she has developed a highly successful, diversified social service program that serves over 7,000 residents at more than 26 properties in California. Her background in affordable housing development, human resources, and social service program development makes her uniquely qualified to take on this role and contribute to the Executive Team and continued growth of MJ Housing & Services.
 

Ara holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in Management from the University of San Diego.

Ara is a native Californian that has a passion for traveling and experiencing new cultures. She is currently raising two beautiful kids in wine county, Temecula, California. In addition to traveling, she and her family love to spend their free time paddle boarding, biking, and hiking.

Director of Quality Assurance

Gloria Pacas is a California native who graduated from the University of California - Irvine with a B.A. in Psychology and Social Behavior and a B.A. in Spanish. Gloria spent a year studying abroad in Spain which led to her completing a B.A. in Spanish. She can speak Korean along with Spanish. 

She had been a Resident Service Coordinator at an independent senior apartment in Long Beach, CA for eight years. While being a part of the MJ team, she has taken on different roles within the company as an Onboarding Specialist and a Lead Resident Service Coordinator while continuing to provide services and care coordination to seniors 62+. 

Gloria continues to grow within MJ Housing and Services by providing support to the Service Coordinators in California on the MJ team and Quality Assurance team as Regional Director of Social Services and now as Director of Quality Assurance to all Service Coordinators on the MJ team. She is driven to provide the ultimate support to the team so that they can provide the best quality of life to the seniors they are serving while maintaining compliance with HUD.   

Administrative Assistant

Services Staff

Mike Edminston

Lead Service Coordinator
Argonaut Senior

Jenn Skinner

Nikiya Cruz

Resident Service Coordinator
Pavilion Apartments

Eunice Gonzalez

Yulan (Nancy) Lan

Resident Service Coordinator
Lions Community Manor

Resident Service Coordinator
Thessalonica Court 

Lead Service Coordinator
Sorrento Towers

Resident Service Coordinator
Crescent Manor

Lesa Masten

Resident Service Coordinator
La Resolana Senior

Resident Service Coordinator
Aria, Maycrest, & Cottage Hill 

Resident Service Coordinator
Muhlenberg Gardens & Wittenberg Manor

Resident Service Coordinator
Oceanpointe Tower Apartments

Coco Ziyi Yang, LCSW

Lead Service Coordinator
Golden Age Village

Elsa Rodriguez

Resident Service Coordinator
Garden Villas

Dana Tull

Resident Service Coordinator
Tower on 19th & Triangle Terrace

Mercedes Vazquez Romo

Resident Service Coordinator
New Hope Homes

Resident Service Coordinator
PF King Village

David Resendiz

Resident Service Coordinator
Tyrol Plaza 

Nicole Irwin, MSW

Resident Service Coordinator
Coraopolis Towers

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