Coney Island Commons Apartments

Sandy victims get first dibs at new HPD buildings

February 20, 2013 04:00PM

HPD Commissioner Mathew Wambua and a rendering of Coney Island Commons

The city Department of Housing Preservation and Development will now offer up apartments in its new developments to Hurricane Sandy victims who lost their homes when the storm made landfall, Crain’s reported. Those eligible must fall within each project’s income restrictions; the low- and middle-income families whose homes were damaged will now get first call for up to one quarter of the units.

The first development that will offer such units to victims is the 195-unit Coney Island Commons. Here, 25 percent of units are being reserved for victims who make no greater than $49,800 annually for a four-person family. Families can move in this summer.

The Coney Island development, which has studios, one- and two-bedroom units, is located in storm zone A. Despite its location, Sandy’s storm surge left minor damage on the property and construction was not delayed, in part thanks to modern building techniques.

City officials say that the program could offer housing to hundreds of displaced victims. [Crain's] –Zachary Kussin

Tags: Coney Island Commons, department of housing preservation and development, mathew wambua

noclist

Great! Lose your home to a storm and get to the front of the line for a Housing project apt. Only in America.
- no-permits
  
  what’s wrong with that?
- Jealousmuch?
  
  thats completely idiotic. The the people who live/work in that area lost their homes shouldn’t they get at least a little bit of preferential treatment being as they are already apart of the community. I smell sour grapes.
dumb

so the idiots who bought/rented in a flood zone get preferential treatment? and smart people……you go to the back of the line.
- SoSad.
  
  First of all the only idiot I see here is you. If you don’t get any apartment that is because YOU didn’t qualify Don’t blame someone else who went through the struggle of losing their home or getting sustaining damage to their home for the fact that you can’t get something. Because I can bet you that if you lived in that area during Hurricane Sandy, you would be bitching and moaning about how you struggled so you should get preferential treatment. So the only dumb thing I see here is your ignorant comment.