El Borinquen is brand new supportive housing that opened in The Bronx in 2022. Some of the criteria they used to pick candidates includes income, age (seniors) and people aging out of foster care.
There are 148 affordable apartments, including 90 with on-site supportive services for people experiencing homelessness and 29 homes for seniors. Ninety apartments are reserved for formerly homeless adults and youth or young adults aging out of foster care. These residents have access to rental subsidies and on-site services funded through the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative.
Supportive services include individual case management, mental health referrals, job readiness training, and financial literacy workshops. Comunilife is the service provider as well as the project’s developer.
Residential amenities include 24-hour security, a shared laundry room, a computer lounge for residents, a community space for events, a bike room, a landscaped garden courtyard and a roof garden. The development is located within a mixed-use residential and commercial area with access to local amenities and within 10 blocks of four subway lines.
Except for a single two-bedroom unit for the live-in superintendent, all units are studios and one bedroom apartments, not SROs. Tenants are responsible for electricity.
Alexander Gorlin Architects worked on the project and their site has eleven photos, some from the interior of the building and the following blurb:
There are 148 affordable apartments, including 90 with on-site supportive services for people experiencing homelessness and 29 homes for seniors. Ninety apartments are reserved for formerly homeless adults and youth or young adults aging out of foster care. These residents have access to rental subsidies and on-site services funded through the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative.
Supportive services include individual case management, mental health referrals, job readiness training, and financial literacy workshops. Comunilife is the service provider as well as the project’s developer.
Residential amenities include 24-hour security, a shared laundry room, a computer lounge for residents, a community space for events, a bike room, a landscaped garden courtyard and a roof garden. The development is located within a mixed-use residential and commercial area with access to local amenities and within 10 blocks of four subway lines.
Except for a single two-bedroom unit for the live-in superintendent, all units are studios and one bedroom apartments, not SROs. Tenants are responsible for electricity.
Alexander Gorlin Architects worked on the project and their site has eleven photos, some from the interior of the building and the following blurb:
This twelve-story, 90,000SF supportive housing development for Comunilife takes advantage of the depth of its lot and is organized as four conjoined volumes situated around an internal courtyard. The development comprises 112 studio units, 35 one-bedroom apartments, a two-bedroom super’s unit and 2,500 SF of space for on-site services.
Footnotes
Found via a tweet. These are additional articles about the project that mostly rehash the same talking points already covered in pieces linked above:- CityRealty.com does show that nearby apartments rent for as much as $9k/month
- SHNNY.org
- NYC.Urbanize.City