3 new affordable housing projects for October 2024

As affordable housing continues to grow, more projects are looking to diversify their footprint by adding mixed-use components, community areas, and more.

Demolished in 1989, The Phoenix Ironworks Steel Factory left a five-acre hole in West Oakland, Calif. After sitting vacant for nearly three decades, the site will soon become utilized again in the form of 316 affordable housing units.

Crystal Pacific Window & Door Systems, the West Coast production affiliate of national manufacturer Crystal Window & Door Systems, recently supplied over 400 energy efficient vinyl windows for a new affordable housing community in San Diego, Calif.

San Diego-based nonprofit affordable housing developer Community HousingWorks (CHW) celebrates the opening of Puesta del Sol Apartments, a new development with 59 apartments for adults 55 years and older.

Jefferson Plaza Apartments, being built on a 7.6 acre site of a former shopping center, will comprise seven 3-story buildings with 147 one-bedroom and 93 two-bedroom units.

Chicago-based interior design firm Mary Cook Associates announced it has completed the interiors of Lapis, a new 1,086-bed off-campus luxury student housing community near Florida International University. 

A fire station in Southern California leveraged prefab, modular construction for faster completion and future reconfiguration.

The Chicago office of architecture firm Lamar Johnson Collaborative (LJC) yesterday announced the completion of Embry, a 58-unit luxury condominium building at 21 N. May St. in Chicago’s West Loop.