Mark Fogarty Author Archives

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Cathedrals, Miracles and the Spirit of Frederick Douglass

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It was while visiting a low-income high rise in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood 20 years ago that I got the thought that some affordable housing towers are secular cathedrals.

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Ablett Village in Camden, NJ

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Ablett Village is a Camden, NJ public housing project that dates way back. In fact, it has roots in both World Wars, named after a local soldier who died in World War I and used, on its completion in 1943, as housing for World War II war effort workers.

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Four Properties Preserve Affordable Housing

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Jonathan Rose Companies is making a major push to preserve affordable housing in Chicago, acquiring hundreds of units in recent months, some financed by Low Income Housing Tax Credits, in an effort to create “Communities of Opportunity,” in these renovated properties.

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Pointe on La Brea in Los Angeles

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Martin Luther King’s dream is continually being reinvented, enduringly so in California, where Dr. King’s assassination in 1968 spurred an ecumenical group of clergy and laymen in the Golden State’s Marin County to begin a project to build affordable housing that has continued to this day.

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The First 100 Years of Danube Apartments 

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The Danube Apartments are a keeper.

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Timber Ridge Apartments in La Grande, OR 

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Low Income Housing Tax Credit projects are always looking to make an impact. A four percent project in northeast Oregon underway is seeking to make a huge impact – to put a big dent into the affordable housing need in its area.

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Massachusetts Seniors Living Out Their Golden Years, Literally  

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The concept of seniors living out their golden years is more apt than usual at the Gardner Terrace I Apartments in Attleboro, MA.

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The Tangled Legacy of Hope VI 

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HOPE VI, a hugely ambitious program to replace nearly 100,000 severely distressed public housing units over two decades with mixed-income units and to improve residential services and quality of life in hundreds of neighborhoods, clearly had mixed results, especially with its legacy of displacing tenants.

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New York’s Lambert Houses May Again Be An Urban Renewal Template 

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The Lambert Houses in the New York City borough of the Bronx were considered cutting-edge solutions to inner city housing problems when they were constructed in the 1970s.

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The Court Square Building in Springfield, MA 

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Historic Massachusetts Hotel to Be Preserved and Improved 

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Washington, DC’s Waterfront Station II 

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Waterfront Station II in Washington, DC is a big project, big in every way.

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Atlantic/Pacific’s Faith-Based Housing in Florida and Maryland  

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An old saying claims faith can move mountains. It can also move the making of a lot of affordable housing, especially for seniors, by faith-based developers with the assistance of a few more worldly partners. 

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