Quality low-income and affordable housing has been a challenge in the Big Apple for decades. But as NatDuddridgeTV reports, there’s a gem of a building in Brooklyn that has the design, community, and backing that’s making it work.
But the latest project for the partners and senior design associates at Robert A.M. Stern is a 125-unit apartment building inIt is the first of this type they have done in the city.
Rosen leads the nonprofit that runs the Livonia Avenue building, and 4,000 other supportive housing apartments around the city. She says there were more than 47,000 applications for these units. There are amenities like laundry, bicycle storage, a computer room, an outside courtyard, along with social services in the $75 million project. Apartments come with basic furnishings and there are even plant giveaways. But there’s something more in the building, too.Yonkers' Ridgeway Project Hailed As Some Of State's Nicest Affordable Housing“This is beautiful, beautiful, so much more than what I expected.
She said her kids love seeing their building from the train. But more that that, she said her family has found community, and finally a sense of home.