Connecticut is investing $10 million in seven state-funded public housing developments – including Glastonbury, Middletown, New Britain and Wethersfield — with 561 living units, authorities say.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announcd the investment Wednesday as part of his overall 10-year $420 million commitment to expand and revitalize affordable housing statewide.
Priority was given, Malloy said, to housing developments with long-term operating plans that bring formerly vacant units back online, and in which the improvements will create safe and sustainable communities.
The projects are:
• Middletown Housing Authority has been awarded $3,000,000 that will go toward 198 units of moderate rental housing for families in three developments: Santangelo Circle, Sunset Ridge, and Rockwood Acres.
• Glastonbury Housing Authority was awarded $3,000,000 for 140 units of elderly housing at 10-119 Knox Lane and 79 New London Turnpike.
• Friendship Service Center of New Britain will receive $577,880 for 22 units of transitional housing for the homeless in the center at 85 Arch Street.
• Wethersfield Housing Authority was awarded $644,341 for 28 units of moderate rental housing for families at Highview Apartments, with properties on Highview Avenue, Holbrook Terrace, Oxford Street, and Wolcott Hill Road.
• Mark Twain Congregate will receive $1,444,115 for 82 units of congregate housing for the frail elderly in the complex at 110 South Road, Enfield.
• Mt. Carmel Elderly was awarded $1,063,839 for 40 units of elderly housing at 33 Woodruff Street, Hamden.
• Mystic River Homes has been awarded $269,825 for 51 units of congregate housing for the elderly at the Mystic River Congregate facility at 205 Elm Street in the Noank section of Groton.