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Rendering: Madison Plan Commission
10/2/2022 update starts here
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10/19/2021 update, "From high-end to low-cost housing at Madison's north side," starts here.
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Wisconsin State Journal, 10/11/2021
Odessa Affordable Housing. “Avenue Square Senior Apartments,” a $17.3 million project at 1802-1818 Packers Ave. and 2102 Schlimgen Ave. on the North Side with 41 of 68 units for those with lower incomes. Would receive $1.64 million in city support. Awarded $860,000 from Dane County subject to County Board approval. Has already secured tax credits through WHEDA and city land use approvals.
Google Maps view (rectangle added)
A view of the 1800 block of Packers Avenue
Development proposal aims to fill high-end housing gap on North Side. (Wisconsin State Journal, 4/4/2016)
The roughly $13 million project would include 90 underground parking stalls and 25 surface parking stalls and would provide a new, high-quality housing option to Madison Area Technical College students, frequent Dane County Regional Airport users and others, Griffin said.
A rendering for The Elevation
I have a suggestion for developer Blake Griffin.
Create a Google Alert for "affordable housing". It provides quite the list of daily reading, as I discovered when I did so recently.
There is an affordable housing crisis not just in Dane County but across the United States. Locally, numerous high-end housing projects (see "The Towering Isthmus" blogposts) have transformed the Madison skyline -- and exacerbated the challenges of meeting the needs of the homeless in the process.
Keeping 60% of The Elevation's apartments at rents of $1,000 or less ($999?) does nothing to address a lack of affordable housing in Madison.
It's happening now. It started a couple weeks ago. Very informative article, thank you. I like knowing what's going on in my neighborhood. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is true it really is not affordable housing if rents are over 1,000 per month and senior living off SS and pensions.
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