New Affordable, Supportive Housing in Bushwick
Here’s a rare bird: non-icky-looking affordable housing. What’s pictured is the Anna Gonzalez Apartments, a 99-unit supportive housing rental at Broadway and Willoughby in Bushwick that’s being dedicated to Gonzalez, the former chairwoman of Community Board 4, this week. All of the furnished apartments will be rented to tenants who earn no more that 50%…
Here’s a rare bird: non-icky-looking affordable housing. What’s pictured is the Anna Gonzalez Apartments, a 99-unit supportive housing rental at Broadway and Willoughby in Bushwick that’s being dedicated to Gonzalez, the former chairwoman of Community Board 4, this week. All of the furnished apartments will be rented to tenants who earn no more that 50% of Area Median Income, the formerly homeless working, or individuals living with HIV/AIDS or a mental health diagnosis. The conversion project was developed by Central Brooklyn Community Services, Camba Housing Ventures, and designed by a firm called Oaklander Coogan & Vitto. GMAP
There are plenty of hard working, legally employed people who cannot afford $1000 for a 2 bdrm apartment. And ex-drug users and people with a mental health diagnosis often need a place like this to act as a stepping stone. Its not a hand-out, its a hand-up, and the city needs more places like this.
Wow…what a great way to fight tooth & nail @ gentrification & keeping it (Ghetto) real in Bushwick! Just keep on coddling the people who don’t play by the rules. This way…the politicians can be always voted in again, for coddling so-called “ex drug users†& “working Homeless”, whatever that means!? Now they have a brand new Loft bldg location; to perpetuate drug selling, lowlifes Hanging out with the homies & lets mug a “HIPSTER†tonight!!! Not bad when they do not have to pay normal rent, like the rest of us suckers!!!
Oh yeah…hipsters! This is what you get; when you try to stop gentrification & the displacement of the so-called (long time residents (the biggest myth going on) you always get “Fv
Wow…what a great way to fight tooth & nail @ gentrification & keeping it (Ghetto) real in Bushwick! Just keep on coddling the people who don’t play by the rules. This way…the politicians can be always voted in again, for coddling so-called “ex drug users†& “working Homeless”, whatever that means!? Now they have a brand new Loft bldg location; to perpetuate drug selling, lowlifes Hanging out with the homies & lets mug a “HIPSTER†tonight!!! Not bad when they do not have to pay normal rent, like the rest of us suckers!!!
Oh yeah…hipsters! This is what you get; when you try to stop gentrification & the displacement of the so-called (long time residents (the biggest myth going on) you always get “Fv
I live down the street from there and have been wondering what it was going to be. Up close it’s really a beautiful building, I’m happy having it in the neighborhood whatever it’s use is.
Obviously the need is there- just because you can find some market rate 2 bedrooms, in Bushwick a lot of people can’t afford market rate. Supportive housing is not the same as building a men’s shelter – these are people either very ill or who have been able to put themselves back into the job market but can’t afford a market rate apartment.
I don’t know the situation in Park Slope but I can’t see why anyone would object to giving a helping hand to those in need- espeially when many of them are working and trying to be constructive and valuable members of the community again.
This looks like a decent project but why is so much of this sort of thing being built in Bushwick. You can get a decent market rate 2 bedroom railroad flat for $1000/mo. in Bushwick so I question the need for more “affordable” housing. I suspect that these projects get built here because there is no community opposition. Try building “supportive” housing in Park Slope and see how much the locals protest.
12:29 sounds like they have a million dollars in quarters stuck up their ass. Hey 12:29, fuck off.
1:50: Why do you assume people who don’t like this are not native? There are plenty of natives who may not find this use of funds appropriate. I don’t agree with them, but trying to belittle them serves no purpose.
“Go back to Kansas”. What an original comeback. Never seen that used on this board before. You are so creative and witty. Thanks for entertaining us.