... the upper levels will house 46 units (28 studios and 12 one-bedroom apartments). The housing will serve homeless young adults and young adults aging out of the foster-care system. An additional 12 units will be set aside for young single adults with a child. The city OK'd plans to add an addition floor to the existing structure.
Here's how the renovations are going as of yesterday ... in these photos via Bobby Williams...
The project is a joint venture among Phipps Houses ... University Settlement/The Door ... and Loisaida, Inc. SLCE Architects created the plans... We're not sure of the timetable for completion...
Previously on EV Grieve:
Community center and supportive housing coming to East Ninth Street
Do it right boys, or you have to do it over again..the rat is gone..you workers are skilled and know how to construct..why all the de-construction???
ReplyDeleteNice to see something under construction that will benefit the non-rich people in our community for a change. And supportive housing is desperately needed as Bloomberg's War on the Homeless enters its second decade
ReplyDeleteThis is great. It's a beautiful building. I welcome everyone who will be living and working here.
ReplyDeleteLets hope that the era of compromise will soon end. No more market rate housing. No more 50/50 housing. We don't need any more market rate apartments in the area, not even one more.
One of the most despicable, racist, classist things that these Realtors can do is to buy people out of their apartments and send them off, out of Manhattan. They destabilize affordable units and one by one change the demographic. It is racist and classist for Realtors to say that $200.000 is more money than these people will ever see in their life time. That they should just move along, move to Staten Island or somewhere else and give us the apartment, give us the land. It's like what happened to the Indians.
I would like to commend The Cooper Square Committee for their support of at least 50 percent affordable apartments at the Spura redevelopment site. It is not enough though. The Bloomberg Administration won't even agree to 50 percent. The Cooper Square Committee needs to rise again as a radical organization. Our affordable housing organizations have been forced to conform to the Bloomberg Administration.
It is time to get radical once again. I think that the affordable housing groups in CB3 need to get together and sue the Bloomberg Administration for racism and classism regarding the Spura redevelopment. There was a promise that this land was to be given back to the people of lower manhattan who were originally displaced. What that means, is that the Spura plan should be for 100% affordable housing. It is time to fight back. Bloomberg will be out soon.
The people reluctantly conceded 50% affordable housing on the SPURA site and then what did the City do - they said F***K You we are gonna do what we want and "build up to 50% affordable housing, that will remain affordbale for 60 years". This was supposed to be a minimum of 50% permamanent affordable housing. Reminds of how we treated the native american indians in this country. Sign a treaty with them where they give up a quarter of their land in exchange for food and medicine and then send the cavalry in to take what we want. SPURA is now a joke and I bet that they will do everything in their power to knock down the market and replace the vendors and make it look like Chelsea.
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