Jun. 11, 2024 By Ethan Marshall The Rockaways nonprofit Residents Acquiring Land Edgemere Community Land Trust (ReAL Edgemere CLT) revealed its Request for Qualifications (RFQ) on Friday, June 7, inviting affordable housing developers who meet these qualifications to partner in creating more than 100 affordable homes to 32 development sites in Edgemere. In addition to…
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Tag: Affordable housing
Housing lottery opens for 5-story mixed-use building in Astoria, rent starts at $2,800
May 14, 2024 By Ethan Marshall New York City has launched a housing lottery for three units in a 5-story mixed-use building at 12-22 Astoria Blvd. in Astoria. The building has ten residences, seven of which are market rate. The three affordable residences are each two-bedroom units meant for those earning 130% of the area… Read more »
Property management platform Outpost Club leads the way in affordable urban living, merging co-living and co-working in NYC
Apr. 29, 2024 By Ethan Marshall As New York City tries to provide more affordable housing to its residents, the real estate and management platform Outpost Club has been hard at work creating affordable housing dwellings. The Outpost Club is redefining urban living in New York City by merging co-living and co-working under one roof….
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Housing lottery opens for 17-story mixed-use building in Far Rockaway, rent starts at $617
Apr. 24, 2024 By Ethan Marshall New York City has launched a housing lottery for 134 units in the 17-story mixed-use building The Peninsula A1, also known as Edgemere Commons Apartments, at 51-23 Beach Channel Dr. in Far Rockaway. The Peninsula A1 has 194 apartments, 60 of which are market rate. The 134 affordable units…
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Op-Ed | Scoring a goal for affordable housing
Apr. 16, 2024 By Mayor Eric Adams In November 2022, our administration announced a historic once-in-a-generation transformation of the Willets Points neighborhood in Queens. This neighborhood, which was once called the “Valley of Ashes” and known for its junkyards, is now being transformed into a vibrant neighborhood with 2,500 new all-affordable homes — the largest…
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The final goal: Willets Point plan for new NYCFC soccer stadium and hundreds of affordable apartments gets City Council approval
Apr. 11, 2024 By Robert Pozarycki
Willets Point’s long-awaited transformation from industrial wasteland to Queens’ newest neighborhood got the green light from the City Council Thursday.
Affordable housing lottery opens for recently completed 19-story residential building in Astoria, rent starts at $3,105
Mar. 27, 2024 By Ethan Marshall New York City has launched a housing lottery for 50 affordable units in the newly-constructed 19-story residential building at 26-25 4th St. in Astoria. Known as the Winslow, this building stands at 204 feet tall and spans 289,000 square feet. There are a total of 165 units in the… Read more »
Affordable housing lottery opens in the Rockaways, rent starts at $410
Mar. 20, 2024 By Ethan Marshall A total of 155 affordable units are now up for grabs at a development in the Rockaways, with monthly rents ranging from $410-$2,035. The affordable units are part of an upcoming affordable housing development known as Rockaway Village Apartments, located at 1605 and 1607 Village Ln. The development will…
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Deal closed to add 230 affordable housing units to Hillside Avenue in Jamaica
Mar. 4, 2024 By Ethan Marshall Approximately 230 units of affordable housing is slated to come to Hillside Avenue in Jamaica. Local Initiatives Support Corporation NY (LISC NY), a New York-based minority and women-owned enterprise, has partnered with MURAL Real Estate Partners, a privately owned real estate company, to develop the units. LISC NY announced…
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Affordable housing lottery opens in Douglaston, rent starts at $1,522 a month
Jan. 24, 2024 By Ethan Marshall A total of 17 affordable housing units up for grabs in Douglaston, with monthly rents ranging from $1,522-$3,753. The units are part of a 5-story residential complex going up at 241-15 Northern Blvd. The development consists of 55 residences, with 38 of them at market rate. A lottery has…
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