A once-infamous juvenile detention center in the Bronx will be transformed into more than 700 units of affordable housing.
The City Council Thursday approved plans to turn the former Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in Hunts Point into a $300 million, 5-acre campus dubbed The Peninsula that will include 700 units of affordable housing, ground-floor retail, light industrial manufacturing space and other amenities.
“It’s a big day for justice in the Bronx. As we move to build more than 700 affordable homes, open space and small businesses in Hunts Point on the site of the old Spofford facility, we are seeing a community rising and the righting of old wrongs,” Mayor de Blasio said in a statement.
Spofford was a hulking concrete complex that was shuttered in 2011 after years of criminal justice activists urging its closure.
All 700 of the units will be income-restricted and the development will be mixed income — with apartments reserved for those making from 30% to 90% of the area median income, and 75 units set aside for formerly homeless people.
WOW! 75 units for the homeless. At this rate we should have them all housed by 3026.
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I get messages for new affordable housing buildings and the AMI's are grossly over-estimated. In fact a majority of Bronx residents income doesn't exceed $20,000 and yet the qualification for the low AMI units is usually set around 30,000.
This is just a big ass scam while the definition of affordability gets warped to benefit the gentrification industrial complex.
The minimum wage is $10.50 per hour, and 30% of income should go to rent. Using a 40 hour work week, the the smallest single person unit (a studio) should be priced at $546 a month to be deemed "affordable".
Isn't that what "the projects" were designed for.... houses of incarceration?
NYCHA is the jailer!
How convenient. A new lock up for the blacks and Dominicans. I wonder how many white people will be given apartments there?
Um, White peolpls are allowed to live with black and Dominican people . It is 2018 for the rest of us .
>>Anonymous said...
>>How convenient. A new lock up for the blacks >>and Dominicans. I wonder how many white >>people will be given apartments there?
minimum wage is $13.50 going up to $15 I think by next year.
A jail to house the homeless !?! Doesn't the city realize that the homeless are damaged enough, does this city need to inflict more psychological pain and suffering. The idea that they will live in a jail is no help at all.
Funny that. Same residents. Different name.
This posting has to have some of the dumbest and ill-informed comments I have read on this site. First this place is was not a jail but a detention center and this is much better than turning some toxic manufacturing plant in apartments and like one already said the one anon got the minimum wage completely wrong. You all must get your information from the same place are total idiot president gets and where in this article does it say for "Blacks and Dominicans" only.
And the comment about "jail to house the homeless and the rest of the crap this person said has to be one of the top ten idiotic comments ever. Again not a jail and the building will be converted. And do tell how some of the homeless have psychological pain caused by poor decisions and actions on their part. Since many sleep in their own shit anywhere they find a spot, I really doubt they will be complaining about living in an apartment building that was a former detention center for juveniles.
Amazing how human beings have devolved into morons with such a lack of knowledge and facts ( I just described Trump). Talk about shit trickling down.
But on the subject of this, why only 75 homeless and by the time this is done, it will not be affordable to the folks it is meant to house.
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These commenters are getting their theories from Poltergeist. They think the ghosts from dead juvies, who are probably still alive, are going to rise up and possess future tenants.
This should be a good thing but it's not, for it should be entirely affordable and true to the real AMI of the borough, that way more homeless people can get access to a roof over their head. And by the time it's done, the 75 homeless will either leave the city or there will be new and more homeless people competing for the units.
Open your eyes and see who is being placed in the new housing, see who gets the Linc housing vouchers - used to be called Section 8 portable housing vouchers. It pays 70% of a monthly rent or mortgage. It's NOT white people. It's blacks and illegal aliens Which is why Queens is turning into a pile of crap.
Any and all so called affordable housing in Queens, anything that has the government involved, there will be no white people given leases.
Aren't they looking for jail sites in the borough so they can close down Rikers? Why abandon an old jail?
Where will all the hookers go? More homeless and out of work women...
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