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22 August 2015—

“Beach Channel is the first of many projects we’re undertaking to build and protect affordable homes for our seniors, and make sure this remains a city for everyone.” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

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Mayor Bill de Blasio, City officials and developer Arker Companies were in Far Rockaway, on 20 August to break ground for a senior housing.

Beach Channel is the first project under the City’s new $350 million program to finance affordable apartments for low-income seniors, including the formerly homeless.

Eligible seniors must receive less than $36,000 a year in income from work or entitlements to apply for the apartments

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The Beach Channel Senior Apartments will be a seven-story mixed use development that will provide homes for 154 low-income seniors, 46 of whom were formerly homeless. And expected to be completed in 2017.

During the groundbreaking ceremony de Blasio said: “Two years from this very day, the lives of 150 senior citizens will change and it will change for the better.”

Keeping the lessons of the Super Storm Sandy in mind Bill de Blasio said “the building will not contain a basement, and the ground floor will contain only commercial and community facility units and parking, the apartments will be on the second through the seventh floor.”

The development will provide services for seniors right in the building. Addition to 25 parking spaces there will be community space, short-term supportive counseling, health and personal care referrals, meals and supplemental food and more intensive services and referrals as needed, commercial space.

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