Church Revival: Building Remade as Seniors Housing
SAN FRANCISCO - Buena Vista Terrace accomplishes two important goals—preserving a historic church building and creating 40 affordable apartments for seniors in one of the nation’s most expensive housing markets. Read more
Grandfamilies Helped in Hartford
HARTFORD, CONN. - The old St. Michael’s School here is swarming with children, from toddlers to teens. Read more
Reversing Blight in Over-the-Rhine
CINCINNATI - People passing through the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood have a hard time distinguishing a $300,000 condo from a unit that rents for 35 percent of the area median income, thanks to The Model Group. Read more
Delightful Design
TAOS, N.M. - In this northern New Mexico town of cobalt evening skies, sunbaked pueblos, and skiers’ delights, developer Stephen Crozier has built a community that arguably could have been built by Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1950s. Read more
How Green Is the Valley
LOS ANGELES - Hart Village marks the sixth affordable development that Los Angeles Community Design Center (LACDC) has built that includes an early childhood education center. Read more
A Long Engagement
SEATTLE - Those who typically have been shut out of affordable housing options get more than a home at Evans House. Read more
Refuge in the Tenderloin
SAN FRANCISCO - The Salvation Army has built a major housing and community center in the heart of one of the city’s most troubled neighborhoods. Read more
Star Shines on Champion Park
ROCKFORD, ILL. - Star Development became involved in Champion Park—a scattered-site development of 52 for-sale homes and 52 rental units—just when all hope seemed lost. Read more
No Paradise Without Troubles
ST. THOMAS, U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS - For Wilder Balter Partners, St. Thomas turned out to be anything but an island paradise. Read more
A Clean and Sober Environment
YAKIMA, WASH. - An unprecedented nonprofitprivate partnership in eastern Washington has developed 26 units of specialneeds housing that are sustainable in every sense of the word. Read more
Historic Wisconsin Brewery Becomes Workforce Housing
LA CROSSE, WIS. The Gunderson Lutheran Medical Center here had a difficult time attracting and retaining employees due to the lack of quality affordable housing in its area. Read more
Fannie Mae has finished developing Refi Plus, a portfolio retention tool that was introduced in July. Read more
Remaking a Landmark
CLEVELAND - The Famicos Foundation faced a litany of challenges in its rehab of the historic Emeritus House. Read more
Sustainability Motto for Seniors Rehab
EAST BRADY, PA. - Acutting-edge financing model has funded the significant renovation of 79 units of seniors housing built nearly 30 years ago. Read more
Bold Financing Fills Need
NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. - The 80 affordable seniors apartments at the Meadows might look old-fashioned, with burgundy and yellow siding and a weather vane on the peaked rook over the front door. Read more
Hurricane-Recovery Housing Takes Root
PENSACOLA, FLA. - Four years ago, when Hurricane Ivan swept through the Florida panhandle, killing 52 and causing close to $10 billion in damage, an estimated 2,000 residents of Escambia and Santa Rosa counties were left homeless. Read more
Challenges abound in the affordable housing industry—finding land, NIMBYism, higher construction costs, and lower equity pricing, just to name a few. Read more
Gish Goes Green and Gold
SAN JOSE, CALIF. - Gish Apartments has achieved an honor that no other multifamily development in California—affordable or not—can claim. Read more
Homeownership Units Help Stabilize Barton Street
PAWTUCKET, R.I. - The Barton Street neighborhood was once one of the city’s most notorious red-light districts. Read more
Developers Didn't Quit on Papermill
ALSTEAD, N.H. - The developers of Papermill Village Senior Housing battled for years to build affordable apartments here. Read more
Reintegrating Public Housing
PHILADELPHIA- The Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) had an aesthetic and social vision for the redevelopment of the Schuylkill Falls public housing site. Read more
From Freeway to Seniors Housing
SAN FRANCISCO - Parkview Terraces sits like a glass jewel on an unlikely corner of the city. One of San Francisco’s newest affordable housing developments, it is built on land that used to be filled by a longtime freeway on-ramp. Read more
Sharing Space
SEATTLE - On a busy downtown corner, a new green building balances the needs of a demanding neighborhood, formerly homeless residents, and the nation’s largest pharmacy chain. Read more
Low-Cost Homes in Pricey Pasadena
PASADENA, CALIF. - When Heritage Housing Partners (HHP) identified a two-acre site near downtown, its aim was to preserve many of the historic homes on the property as well as to build new affordable housing that echoed the classic Craftsman style of the older houses. Read more
Demolition Preserves Affordable Housing
GLENS FALLS, N.Y. - Sometimes to save affordable housing, developers have to tear it down. Read more
Health Care and Housing Meet, Become Neighbors
COATESVILLE, PA. - Not many health clinics come with apartments on top. For that matter, not many health clinics come with primary- care providers, mental health specialists, and dentists in the same building, either. Read more
Housing Makes a Happy Ending
SALINAS, CALIF. - Just about everyone with roots in this town’s fertile soil has a story about an old motel on Main Street. Read more
Parkhurst Transforms Troubled Site
APTOS, CALIF. - Parkhurst Terrace is a world away from the notorious trailers that were once parked on the same land and served as homes to many families. Read more
Rust Belt Project Turns Green
TARENTUM, PA. - Dalton’s Edge deserves raves for adding 120 new affordable residences for seniors to Allegheny County—home of one of the largest elderly populations of any metropolitan area in the United States. Read more
Sweeter Than RC Cola: Housing for Homeless
NORFOLK, VA. - Lots of cities talk about regional cooperation, but Virginia Supportive Housing (VSH) was able to make that idea a reality with Gosnold Apartments, a single-room occupancy (SRO) development here. Read more
Street Kings in Seattle
SEATTLE - It took some 130 meetings with residents of the former public housing development located in the White Center neighborhood to come up with a plan to replace deteriorating housing that was originally built in 1942 to house Boeing workers during World War II. Read more
Trading Shooting for Shelter
DORCHESTER, MASS. - New townhouses line both sides of Dudley Street, just a block away from the Uphams Corner commuter rail station here. The sidewalks are busy with families and senior citizens stepping around construction workers and equipment. Read more
