New York city chose a developer for the construction of 400 housing units, which will compete in 67 small lotteries.
Apartments and houses are grouped in seven clusters in the Bronx, Brooklyn and Manhattan, and it will be truly affordable housing.
«Thanks to new software, such for example, as «the Preservation and development of housing», it became possible to use small plots of public land that still remained in the city, although they are becoming less», — told the Daily News the Commissioner of conservation and housing development Maria Torres-Springer.
Although such a small batch of affordable housing difficult to develop, city officials have stated that they have grouped them conveniently enough, in places with developed infrastructure.
Developerswho are chosen for this program is: MHANY, Bronx Pro, East Brooklyn Congregations, lemor’s Realty and Iris Development, JMR and Alembic Community Development, Fifth Avenue Committee and Habitat for Humanity and Shelter Rock Builder.
Clusters of affordable housing will be located in Brownsville, Bedford-Stuyvesant and East New York in Brooklyn; Fordham and Melrose in the Bronxand in central Harlem in Manhattan.
For example, in Bedford-Stuyvesant will compete for 21 unit housing — two houses for individual families, home to three families and condos in the Shelter Rock. However, the exact date of the housing lottery yet.
We will remind, the mayor of new York bill de Blasio promised to create 200 thousand units of affordable housing over 10 years.
