RA Carri�n Tours Renewal of Yonkers

RA Adolfo Carrión with Joseph Shuldiner, Executive Director of the Yonkers Public Housing Authority (his staff is in the background)

Regional Administrator Adolfo Carrión recently visited the City of Yonkers in Westchester County and joined Joseph Shuldiner, Executive Director of the Yonkers Public Housing Authority to see first-hand how HUD funds are being used to create mixed-income, economically viable communities. Shuldiner brought Carrión to tour the former site of an old public housing complex called Mulford Gardens that was torn down to make way for a 85-unit family complex opening in December. Carrión also viewed a new, 15-unit apartment complex that was built on the site of a derelict firehouse, as well as a new 49-unit senior housing complex. The tour also included a stop at Cottage Place Gardens, a troubled housing development on the west side of the city. Carrión learned that the City is applying for a Choice Neighborhood grant this month to plan for the transformation of Cottage Place Gardens and the surrounding community.

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