Hartford and Manchester are among four Connecticut towns getting $27.9 million in grants from the state to erect new, supportive housing to shelter the homeless, special-needs households and veterans, authorities say.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Thursday that Bridgeport and Hamden, too, will participate in the creation of 93 affordable apartments – 51 of them earmarked for veterans.
The grants were approved by the Interagency Committee on Supportive Housing (ICSH) under the state’s Permanent Supportive Housing Initiative (PSHI), officials said.
Supportive housing also includes support services ranging from counseling to transportation.
The 2014 PSHI award recipients are:
Liberty Gardens, Hartford
Chrysalis Center Real Estate Corp. will receive a grant of $4 million to rehabilitate a vacant historic apartment building. The building will include 10 apartments for child-welfare involved families as well as related office space and family activity rooms on the first floor. All units are affordable to families with incomes of 25 percent to 50 percent of area median income (AMI). An additional $400,000 in financing is provided by the City of Hartford HOME funds.
Center Street Apartments II, Manchester
CHR Capital Inc. will receive $ 7.6 million in PSHI conditional grant funding. The new apartments will be built next to the Center Street Apartments, also owned and operated by CHR. Center Street II will have 10 units of supportive housing: two units for adults with special needs, three units for Veterans ineligible for HUD-Veterans Affairs for Supportive Housing (VASH) vouchers, and five units for child-welfare involved families. The first floor of the building will have office space for CHR and all units are affordable to households making up to 80 percent of AMI.
Milestone at Stratford Avenue, Bridgeport
Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust Inc. will receive $8.7 million for new construction of a development to contain 30 units of supportive and affordable apartments. Eight apartments will be set aside for veterans ineligible for HUD-VASH and two apartments will be set aside for youth aging out of foster care. Milestone at Stratford Avenue is expected to contain a grocery store on the ground level and the apartments above will all be affordable to households with incomes up to 80 percent of AMI.
Sanford Commons, Hamden
New Haven Home Recovery will receive a $7.6 million PSHI grant. The new building will have a total of 33 apartments, with 10 apartments set aside for chronically homeless individuals, including veterans ineligible for VASH, and six units for young adults aging out of foster care. Sanford Commons will be handicap accessible, and 16 apartments will be affordable to households with incomes up to 50 percent of AMI, with 17 units affordable to households with incomes of between 50 percent and 80 percent of AMI.
