Developer revised plan to include low-income apartments for women with children. On November 17, 2010, the City Council approved the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s revised proposal to allow Providence House to build a six-story supportive housing project at 329 Lincoln Road in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn. HPD recently demolished a four-story building on the site which had remained vacant for 30 years. Providence House’s original proposal included twenty studio apartments for single women transitioning from homeless shelters or prison, five studios for low-income single women earning less than 60 percent of the area’s median income, and one studio for the building’s superintendent. (read more…)

New project would house women transitioning from shelters or hospitals; opponents expressed concerns about project’s impact on neighborhood. On August 25, 2010, the City Planning Commission heard testimony on the Department of Housing Preservation and Development’s proposal to allow Providence House to develop a six-story, 26-unit supportive housing project at 329 Lincoln Road in the Prospect Lefferts Gardens section of Brooklyn. Providence House, established by the Sisters of Saint Joseph, provides supportive and transitional housing for homeless and formerly institutionalized women. HPD recently demolished a four-story building on the site that had remained vacant for thirty years.

Providence House would provide twenty apartments to single women transitioning from shelters and hospitals. Five units would be marketed to low-income single women earning less than 60 percent of the area’s median income, and one unit would be occupied by the building’s superintendent. To facilitate the project, HPD requested permission to dispose of the City-owned property and applied for a special permit allowing an increase in the building’s maximum floor area. (read more…)