#mixed-income-housing

#mixed-income-housing

New Rochelle pursued the downtown overlay because its traditional zoning produced fragmented, underused parcels and left the city's core underperforming. We knew we had underutilized our downtown, Salgado said. City leaders saw stalled projects, aging buildings and surface parking lots where walkable, mixed-use buildings could go instead. They wanted a predictable framework that could attract serious capital while still meeting community goals on design and affordability.

I think it's probably the only one of its kind you'll ever see. Subsidized housing is usually in low-income areas. It would be like bringing Compton and Beverly Hills together in one block.

Haven Court's housing lottery is now live in Mott Haven, putting 129 apartments up for grabs through the city's Housing Connect portal, with applications due by March 16, 2026. The two-building development covers several affordability bands, with advertised rents starting at $545 for some studio units and topping out at $2,571 for two-bedrooms at the highest AMI tier.

The City has agreed to let Related, a developer, tear down that and more than 20 neighboring buildings in the Fulton & Elliott Chelsea Houses, and relocate residents. It would essentially privatize the housing development, rather than depending on the city to maintain and manage. The project includes rebuilding all 2,056 existing units and creating up to 3,454 new mixed-income units and new community facilities and public spaces.