Turning Over a New Leaf – Affordable Housing Options in NYC Take a look at the Available Affordable Housing units now accepting applications for Lotteries throughout NYC in this article from Curbed NY, “Where to Find Affordable Housing Units in NYC…A comprehensive guide to New York City’s affordable housing lotteries.” It is comprehensive and includes a map! Two of the…
30
Aug
Time to Transform – Affordable Housing Options
30 AugIt’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…
30
Aug
The New Look of Affordable Housing
30 AugThis 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…
14
Aug
NYC – $1.65 Million for Affordable Housing Vacant Land Use –
14 AugNYC 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…
16
Jul
Girls Invent Solar Panel Tents for People Who are Homeless
16 JulThis 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…
02
Jul
A Home is Not Essential to Move Forward. Really?
02 JulProposed 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…