IN THE NEWS: The Rochester Avenue Apartments
Concern’s first Single-Site Supportive Housing program in Brooklyn is near completion and is scheduled to open in early 2011. Formerly used as a hospital facility, this five story building is being rehabilitated to provide 65 studio apartments for low-income individuals recovering from mental illness. Twenty of the project’s units will be targeted to homeless individuals. Each studio apartment includes a kitchenette, bath and living area. All of the units are wired for high speed internet, cable and telephone. The building will also include multiple lounges, computer room, exercise room, dining hall where breakfast and dinner will be served daily, on-site laundry facilities, and rooftop garden. The building will also include a roof photovoltaic (solar panel array) system that will provide a portion of the building’s electricity needs.
Funding for this project was provided by Low-Income Housing Tax Credits from New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, by a mortgage provided by Bank of America, and from grants received by the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York and New York State Office of Mental Health.
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