We’ll stick with green affordable housing projects in Brooklyn today and note Glenmore Gardens, a $2.3 million, five-building, ten-unit development in East New York which was funded by the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s (“HPD”) New Foundations Program on land owned by HPD. New Foundations encourages smaller developers to build affordable housing in neighborhoods where ownership is difficult for many residents; most of the purchasers at Glenmore Gardens earn more than eighty percent less of the neighborhood’s median income. The project was completed earlier this year and is profiled in the November 2007 issue of Dwell (though the article is not available online.)
In addition to co-developing the project with ET Partners, Brooklyn-based Della Valle Bernheimer Architects designed two of the buildings and directed Architecture Research Office (“ARO”), BriggsKnowles Architecture + Design, and Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis, as they designed one building each.
