{"id":17,"date":"2022-04-26T15:55:49","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu\/statenislandextension\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2022-04-26T15:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:55:49","slug":"new-affordable-housing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/openlab.macaulay.cuny.edu\/staten-island-expansion\/new-affordable-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Affordable Housing"},"content":{"rendered":"

New public housing will be built along the south side of Father Capodanno Boulevard. These will be a series of five-story buildings, based upon the Tetris Apartments<\/a> in Slovenia. \"Image<\/a>The height of these apartments is deliberately kept low. It was realized that an unintended consequence of the high-rise public housing that became ubiquitous during the twentieth century, was that they destroyed street communities. The notion of a street community is that people congregate on the sidewalks and areas surrounding their homes and create an active, bustling environment that fosters kinship and safety. These is what the streets of places like East Harlem used to feel like, before the introduction of public affordable housing projects<\/a>. Although people like Robert Moses built these projects surround by grounds with playgrounds and social areas, the fact that people were living so far away from the ground, and that all the shopping and community areas that would bring people to the ground had been removed to make way for the projects, meant that these became desolate areas, and areas devoid of active social activity, become dilapidated and dangerous places. Busy streets are safe streets. This is why these new housing developments will encourage street community activity. A new light rail system will be added to service the new residents and feed them into the existing Staten Island Railroad.<\/p>\n

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Proposed developments for Project<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Each building will be 55 meters wide, but they will be placed 300 meters apart to ensure a feeling of spaciousness. In the diagram to the left, each black box represents a 300 meter area with the structure marked in red in the middle of it. As well as keeping the buildings low, the ground level will also provide commercial spaces that can be rented out for local businesses to supply the needs for the community and promote street activity. These spaces will provide low-cost business loans for residents of the apartments and all rents will go back into maintaining the buildings and surrounding area. This will ensure that the businesses that come into these areas actually serve the needs of the residents. By having the rents being used to maintain the very buildings that the community live in, means that these will all serve to allow people to continually invest in their own homes whenever they shop at these places. There will also be allowances for outside business owners to rent some of the spaces to attract and provide for people who come to enjoy the new park space who do not reside in the new apartments. This will all serve to bring people onto the streets and support a thriving street-level community. Beyond the safety and financial resources this provides, it will increase the mental wellbeing of the residents by providing constant friendly stimulation and human interaction.<\/p>\n

The sizes of the apartments will range from Studios to Three Bedrooms and assigned on need. All internal walls within the apartments will be non-structural, allowing for easy customization by the tenants to truly make each space their own. There will also have a private balcony that looks over the new park and ocean, but not onto another balcony, for full privacy. These factors encourage home-building and creates home equity, rather than simply providing housing. This development will\u00a0 support the creation of 29 new structures on the reclaimed land. At an occupancy of 300 per development, these new structures will be able to support a total of 8,700 people, almost enough to support full relocation of the current 9,322.<\/p>\n

In keeping with this project\u2019s goals of providing for the continued viability of Staten Island in a warming world, these apartments will be carbon neutral, to ensure that they do not add to the very issues that have necessitated this project in the first place. The rooves of all new structures will have solar paneling that will feed back into all the apartments to reduce their reliance on external power grids and fossil fuel-based electricity. Beyond this, there will be extensive development of geothermal probes in the new ground to provide renewable source for the heating and cooling of the apartments. \"image<\/a>As the new ground is being built up, closed-loop heat exchange systems will be buried in the ground to provide the most efficient means of leveraging a consistent geothermal heat source. As well as being used to help control the heating and cooling of the new apartments, the geothermal heat exchanges will also provide the heating for the water of all the apartments. This will have the dual effect of providing the most energy-efficient renewal power source for heating and cooling, but also save the residents thousands of dollars in utilities. As well as maintaining batteries to store some of the excess energy provided, this will also have to ability to share excess energy with the main power grid for a cost reduction in any electricity that the new dwellings need to use from the main grid.<\/p>\n

In order to provide some additional money for the construction and maintenance of the developments, there will be a small number of apartments available for private purchase. This will provide for a diversity of socio-economic backgrounds in the residents of the complex, which is important for a thriving, twenty-first century world. However, with the prevalence of gig-economy activity, including app-driven apartment rentals, there will be a ban on all subletting of any apartments, including gig-rental websites. All apartments will be primary residence apartments with a minimum night stay of 314 days per year. This is designed to exclude the apartments from being used solely for “weekday” residents, letting on gig-economy websites such as Airbnb, or for use as holiday homes. This is important for the maintenance of the street community.<\/p>\n

To ensure that these new developments, even thought they are being placed on the edge of the newly created flood plains, are not at risk of flooding themselves, the perimeter fencing that will provide the privacy barrier between the residents of the new apartments and the newly created land, will be a fully certified flood barrier. \"glass<\/a>This barrier will be twenty feet high, to ensure that the properties are protected from any future storm surges or ocean activity. The fence will be primarily made of one-way glass. This will provide an unobstructed ocean view for residents, while also providing for their privacy. There will also be trees and other native shrubs to provide for further water-wicking capabilities and visual beauty.<\/p>\n

As people relocate from existing public housing to these new apartments, the old housing projects buildings will be torn down and replaces with apartment buildings the same as described here. However, these new complexes will feature slightly different operating models, and you can read about that on the Old Affordable Housing<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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