{"id":244,"date":"2019-02-04T14:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/new-affordable-and-supportive-housing-approved-for-east-new-york\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T14:30:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:30:58","slug":"new-affordable-and-supportive-housing-approved-for-east-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"New Affordable and Supportive Housing Approved for East New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The new building will have 43 apartments for formerly homeless individuals.<\/strong>\u00a0On January 9, 2019, the City Planning Commission voted unanimously to\u00a0approve\u00a0an application for the development of a seven-story residential building at 461 Alabama Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The City Planning Commission held a public hearing for the application on December 5, 2018. The applicant team consisted of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development,\u00a0CB Emmanuel Realty LLC,\u00a0Services for the Underservedand Newman Design.<span id=\"more-28158\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The property is currently a city-owned vacant lot. The proposed building will have 70 residential units and one super\u2019s unit.<\/p>\n<p>There will be 43 supportive studio apartments. Supportive housing is designed to provide formerly homeless individuals stable housing with services provided onsite. Services for the underserved will provide services like employment services, life skills training, substance abuse services, and social and recreational activities to supportive residents.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining apartments will all be affordable at 60 percent AMI. There will be twelve studio apartments, thirteen one-bedroom, and two two-bedroom affordable apartments. Rents for these apartments will range from $871 for a studio to $1,332 for a two-bedroom. The affordable apartments will be marketed through HPD Housing Connect.<\/p>\n<p>The building would also include a lounge, a multipurpose room, a laundry room, tenant storage, and a landscaped courtyard.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citylandnyc.org\/city-planning-approves-application-for-supportive-and-affordable-housing-in-east-new-york\/\">CityLand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new building will have 43 apartments for formerly homeless individuals.\u00a0On January 9, 2019, the City Planning Commission voted unanimously to\u00a0approve\u00a0an application for the development of a seven-story residential building at 461 Alabama Avenue in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. The City Planning Commission held a public hearing for the application on December 5, 2018. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-housing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brownsvillenews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}