{"id":1004122828,"date":"2015-07-08T12:23:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/?p=354793"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:17:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T17:17:21","slug":"affordable-housing-project-fights-nyc-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/affordable-housing-project-fights-nyc-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"Affordable Housing Project Fights NYC Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Ioana Neamt, Associate Editor<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_354794\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 160px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/07\/Walton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-354794\" title=\"2065 Walton Ave\" src=\"https:\/\/synd.yardi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2015\/07\/Walton.jpg\" alt=\"2065 Walton Ave\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>2065 Walton Ave<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The City of New York is hell-bent on ending homelessness in the five boroughs by the end of 2015, and 2065 Walton Ave. brings it closer to reaching its goal.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www1.nyc.gov\/site\/hpd\/index.page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development<\/a> (HPD), together with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/vets\/html\/home\/home.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mayor\u2019s Office of Veterans\u2019 Affairs<\/a>, announced the start of construction on 2065 Walton Ave. in the West Bronx, an 89-unit affordable housing development that targets formerly homeless veterans and at-risk young adults. The project is the result of a collaboration between a number of entities, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jerichoproject.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">The Jericho Project<\/a> and B &amp; B Supportive.<\/p>\n<p>The project is part of Mayor Bill de Blasio Administration\u2019s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/housing\/pages\/home\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Housing New York: A Five-Borough, 10-Year Housing Plan<\/a>, <\/em>the most comprehensive affordable housing plan in the city\u2019s history. Multiple corporations and organizations showed their support for the project; Citi made a $40,000 contribution, The Home Depot Foundation donated $500,000, while Bank of America Merrill Lynch provided $17.6 million in debt and tax credit in support of 2065 Walton Ave.<\/p>\n<p>The 10-story building at 2065 Walton will incorporate 56 apartments for homeless veterans referred by the Bronx VA Medical Center, as well as 33 apartments that will serve young adults ages 18-25 from the Bronx Community Board 5, via referrals from BronxWorks, Covenant House and other local non-profit groups. The project will direct special attention towards the LGBT homeless youth population, according to Gilbert Taylor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/html\/dhs\/html\/home\/home.shtml\" >NYC Department of Homeless Services<\/a> Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to ending both veteran homelessness by the end of this calendar year and protecting LGBT youth on the brink of homelessness, and we are proud to collaborate with the Jericho Project initiative whose daily work provides supportive services and affordable housing for homeless veterans and LGBT youth,\u201d said Taylor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mhgarch.com\/Walton.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">MHG Architects<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of New York is hell-bent on ending homelessness in the five boroughs by the end of 2015, and 2065 Walton Ave. brings it closer to reaching its goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1600,21742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004122828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york","category-latest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - 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