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Showing Posts by Date: 12/2015

Veteran Cadillac Man Finds a New Home After Decades on the St.: what a long strange trip it’s been

12.15.2015


Richard Gere embracing Cadillac at the NYC premiere of "Time Out of Mind;" Cadillac in his new apartment in Queens, with Loree Sutton, Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Veterans’ Affairs; Network's Cynthia Stuart and Sarah Schenck with Cadillac at the 2015 Supportive Housing Conference.

After nearly twenty years living on the street, Cadillac Man (aka Thomas Wagner), now 65,  moved into a permanent home in Astoria, Queens, the first week of December, after a  long saga dependent upon a series of serendipitous moments.

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| New York City


Lynn’s Place Breaks Ground

12.14.2015


Lynn's Place breaks ground.

On December 1, Unique People Services broke ground in the Bronx for a new affordable and supportive housing project, Lynn’s Place, which will provide homes for a mix of formerly homeless individuals and low income families. Already five years in the making, the project is scheduled to open in the winter of 2017. The building will feature 69 units of housing, with 42 units of supportive housing for individuals with a mental illness and 27 units of affordable housing for individuals and families making less than 60% AMI. The development will also include community space on the ground floor, a sunken courtyard, a landscaped back yard and a green roof on the seventh floor.

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| New York City, Groundbreakings


Cazenovia Recovery Systems of Buffalo Receives Award

12.14.2015


Cazenovia’s Lisa Kauffman (left) and Sue Bissonette (right) with Cadence Square’s Residence of the Year Award

Unfortunately, when the Network presented Cadence Square Apartments with the Residence of the Year Award, co-developer Cazenovia Recovery Systems of Buffalo could not be with us. We therefore presented their award to them in Buffalo on November 20th.

Cadence Square was also honored earlier this month by Governor Cuomo as one of  seven distinctive projects from around the state to receive a 2015 New York State Historic Preservation Award.

| New York State, Member News


Beautiful Rochester View Apartments Opens

12.11.2015


Rochester View Apartments

DePaul Rochester recently opened Rochester View Apartments, a unique affordable and supportive housing residence that became New York State’s first apartment community to offer enhanced supports that accommodate tenants who may be deaf, hard of hearing and those using American Sign Language. The apartment complex features 60 apartments providing homes to a mix of hearing challenged individuals many of whom are struggling with mental illness.

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| New York State, Member News, Openings


Capital Dist. Elected Officials & Community Leaders Call on Gov. for 35,000 Supportive Housing Units

12.11.2015


Rocco DeFazio addresses the 33rd Annual Winter Walk for the HOmeless in Troy, NY

State Senator Neil Breslin (D- Albany), Assemblyman John T. McDonald III (D-Albany), and Lou Rosamilia, Mayor of Troy, and community leaders joined supportive housing residents from Joseph’s House & Shelter’s Hill Street residence in downtown Troy to urge Governor Cuomo to back 35,000 new units of supportive housing statewide. The event was held has a part of the 33rd Annual Winter Walk for the Homeless.

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| New York State