New Haven aldermen have approved more affordable housing

WSHU | By Davis Dunavin

Published April 6, 2022 at 4:01 PM EDT

New Haven’s Board of Aldermen have approved plans for two affordable housing projects in the city. One project, in the Dixwell neighborhood, would offer more than 50 affordable housing units. The other, on State Street, would include 14 affordable units out of 136 apartments, according to the New Haven Register.

Developers on the Dixwell Avenue project are working with a nonprofit called Help USA that serves people facing homelessness.

Developers said it would be the first housing project in the country to use an environmentally friendly type of engineered wood called mass timber.

Davis Dunavin

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He fell in love with sound-rich radio storytelling while working as an assistant reporter at KBIA public radio in Columbia, Missouri. Before coming back to radio, he worked in digital journalism as the editor of Newtown Patch. As a freelance reporter, his work for WSHU aired nationally on NPR. Davis is a proud graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism; he started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.

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