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Three land parcels, currently housing parking garages, will be added to the West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing’s Valley Lodge on West 108th Street.
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sion will determine the number of units the new development can accommodate. “We could go either way, but the message we got from everyone is that we’re in an affordable housing crisis,” Freitag said. “And we want to provide more affordable housing.” The project was first brought in front of CB7 on December 16 for a preliminary informational meeting, and was expected to return to its Land Use Committee on February 17, but venue difficulties forced a postponement to March 16, according to Penny Ryan, CB7’s district manager. Freitag said WSFSSH would present a traffic study to CB7 at the upcoming meeting. During the construction process that is expected to last two years, current tenants of Valley Lodge would be relocated to another building. Freitag added that they’d like to relocate all tenants to one building, but space
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availability may have them splitting the residents into two different buildings. Once the expansion is completed, the tenants would be welcomed back into a new facility with many more neighbors. A tenant, who identified her self as Rusty, said the expansion is a positive move that allows the building to take in more homeless people who need a chance. “I’d like to see more people off the streets and off the subway,” Rusty said. “They could use a place to get them off the streets… I feel for them.” Living in Valley Lodge for more than a year now, Rusty said she’s been waiting since December for the opportunity to move into more permanent housing. The organization hopes to begin construction of the new facility in the summer of 2017. Once finished, Freitag said, WSFSSH will begin leasing the apartments in the summer of 2019 and expects the new facility to be fully housed six months later. n
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