Bausman Street Independent Living was honored by 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania as a winner in their 2006 Commonwealth Design Awards Program. The award recognizes projects that successfully demonstrate sound land use principles, including innovative new development, responsible Greenfield and Brownfield development and revitalization projects.

Bausman Street is a 12-unit property designed to accommodate all disability types. The project was sponsored by Southside Local Development Company and ACTION-Housing, Inc., and was built as an urban in-fill project. Bausman Street is the first Section 811 project, of HUD's office in Pittsburgh, to engage multiple service providers and to support the diversity of disabilities within one project.