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Time to Transform – Affordable Housing Options

30 Aug

It’s Transformation Time – Affordable Housing Options Here’s a look at Affordable Housing Units at 555Ten, located on 41st and 10th. Extell Development and SLCE Architects created the 600 unit building, and now offering an additional 90 units of Affordable Housing. where applications are being accepted until October 23rd, 2017.  Combined with the previous 120 units, Extell is providing so…

The New Look of Affordable Housing

30 Aug

This is 80/20 Housing Now Transformed to 75/25… See that triangle shaped building? It has 142 units of Affordable Housing and they just added another 36. That moves this building, Via 57 West, located at 625 W. 57th St., where Bjarke Ingels was the Architect and the Durst Organization the Developers, from 80/20 to 75/25 housing, with 25% of the…

NYC – $1.65 Million for Affordable Housing Vacant Land Use –

14 Aug

NYC Allocates 1.65 Million for Affordable Housing -Vacant Land New York’s latest Affordable Housing innovation comes through its’ vacant land, particularly in gentrifying neighborhoods. HPD is allocating $1.65 million in grants for Community Land Trusts (CLT ) in all NYC boroughs. These monies come from a pool of $3.5 million in bank settlements Attorney General Eric Schniederman negotiated and was…

Update on Mayor De Blasio’s 10 Year Affordable Housing Plan

28 Jul

Inside the article from the Wall Street Journal – “New York City Officials Say Affordable Housing Push is Working.” Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and other housing officials stated, construction has begun on 20,800 new low & moderate income housing units in NY and 4,145 new units have been completed since 2014, the start of the initiative.  Though an estimated 7,500…

Girls Invent Solar Panel Tents for People Who are Homeless

16 Jul

This is a truly inspiring story and accomplishment by the “DIY Girls” which stands for “Do It Yourself” Girls who’ve just invented, for homeless people, a solar paneled tent that converts into a backpack. It comes equipped with “button powered lights, two USB ports a micro-USB port and…testing a sanitizing UVC light…” Yeah. Quite awesome.  DIY began in 2012, with…

In the Home Building Industry? Interested in Becoming a Certified Aging in Place Specialist?

10 Jul

I was looking through information based on an article I placed in another section about “aging in place” and thought, I need to place this in a section all its’ own.  The elderly population is one of the fastest growing and as everything around us continues to change, so do their needs.  “The National Home Builders Association” is equipped with lots…

Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Study 2017 is Out!

07 Jul

“The State of the Nation’s Housing 2017 report by Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies” is out and as far as Affordable Housing, we’re in trouble. The good news is there are solutions, namely incentivize, incentivize, incentivize.  Chris Herbert, Managing Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Mayor Catherine E. Pugh, City of Baltimore, Maryland, Terri Ludwig, President & CEO of…

Vacant NYC Storefronts

03 Jul

The empty storefronts in NYC are becoming all too common. Why? The Rent’s too high, among other things. The amount of goods a store would have to sell to cover the rent plus the need to price the item at a cost that could make a profit to pay the rent (not to mention other overhead costs) are hurting businesses,…

Want to Stay Where You Are While You Age?

03 Jul

The article from the New York Times, “Planning to Age in Place? Find a Contractor Now” is great on many levels. I know some champion movers out there, but if you’re getting older and want to stay put, there are a few things you’ll want to add to your home, while you’re able. It’s almost one of those things, ‘If…

A Home is Not Essential to Move Forward. Really?

02 Jul

Proposed Cuts to Housing First Some Legislators have a notion that housing is an impediment to sobriety. This was the thinking some 30+ years ago. Had we continued in that vain, many a peoples lives would be very different today.  Time to get success stories together. Keep reading…

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