On June 29, our design team joined Troy Rehabilitation & Improvement Program, Inc, Unity House of Troy, and state and local representatives to celebrate the start of construction on Hillside Views Apartments, an $18 million affordable and supportive housing development.
The housing development is part of the Hillside Views Neighborhood Revitalization project, which will redevelop vacant, underutilized, or blighted parcels in the city’s North Central area to create 51 energy-efficient affordable homes with 26 units reserved for previously homeless households in need of support services.
Hillside Views will consist of one four-story building with 28 apartments and seven townhouse-style buildings at scattered locations. As part of the project, four blighted buildings will be demolished and the lots will be combined into eight sites located within Ingalls Avenue (North), Eleventh Street (East), 5th Avenue (West), and Hoosick Road (South).
All apartments will be affordable to households earning at or below 60 percent of the Area Median Income. Twenty-six apartments are reserved formerly homeless individuals who will have access to onsite support services through Unity House. Six apartments are fully adapted and move-in ready for people with a mobility impairment and three are fully adapted and move-in ready for people with a hearing or visual impairment.
The project is receiving funding through New York State Homes and Community Renewal, New York State Office of Mental Health, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, and federal low-income housing tax credits.
SWBR is providing architectural and structural engineering design services for the project.
See the Governor’s announcement here:
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/governor-cuomo-announces-construction-18-million-affordable-and-supportive-housing-development?fbclid=IwAR011Mt9YOwHvbMUsiY0vGIMWfFF3RzWmXyuyvcqbPvxVABM3JhRb7JBup8