Morrisville Apartment Complex Celebrates 25 Years of Affordable Living

Morrisville Presbyterian Apartment complex. (l to r) HUD Project Manager Susan Noce, Deputy Regional Administrator Brenda Laroche and Supervisory Project Manager/Asset Management Randall Scheetz, are presented with a framed print of the apartment building as a token of appreciation. The print features signatures of the residents of Morrisville Presbyterian Apartments. Two of the original residents Claire Britton and Dorothy Brambley help celebrate the occasion.

Providing safe, comfortable and affordable housing to the elderly requires significant time and effort. Maintaining such high housing standards for a quarter century takes even more work. Presby Inspired Life, a housing organization founded in 1955, has put forth that consistent effort since its establishment.

On May 6, 2011, HUD representatives joined the staff and residents of Presby Inspired Life's Morrisville Presbyterian Apartments to commemorate 25 years of affordable senior housing and care at the Morrisville location. The 99-unit, Section 202 program, affordable housing community was opened in 1986 and represents Presby's first foray into Bucks County, PA.

Brenda Laroche, HUD's Region III Deputy Regional Administrator, spoke of the department's nearly 30-year partnership with Presby and HUD's mission to provide affordable housing in sustainable communities, free of discrimination.

"Affordable housing is a priority for HUD staff in Philadelphia, HUD Secretary [Shaun] Donovan and the Obama administration," Laroche said. "Our seniors deserve a life of dignity."

Laroche stressed the national importance of affordable housing, something that Presby Inspired Life provides to more than 2,600 seniors in 28 communities located throughout the Greater Delaware Valley. The organization's housing ministry began in 1981 with the opening of Riverside Presbyterian Apartments and its current housing complement includes 24 managed and sponsored sites throughout the region.