NEF's third 2025 AHF Readers' Choice Award Finalist is 340+ Dixwell Apartments! This pioneering, mass timber development is a finalist in the Family Housing category.
340+ Dixwell Apartments combines high quality affordable housing with environmentally safe construction to create an innovative solution for families being displaced due to the gentrification of New Haven, Connecticut. This development was one of the first affordable housing communities built with mass timber, an innovative new building technology typically used for high-end residential and commercial uses. Due to the unique construction, 340+ Dixwell Apartments took less time and labor to create, will be more durable, and emits much less carbon in manufacturing, while having a welcoming natural environment with exposed wood paneling.
Beulah Land Development Corp Co. (BLDC) has been working on the development of this site for more than a decade with a vision of creating a safe, stable, and affordable place to live using quality and environmentally sustainable materials, which was achieved alongside partners HELP Development Corp. (HDC) and Spiritos Properties. This development provides 55 affordable units, out of a total of 69 units, with 14 units restricted to households earning 25 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI), 4 units between 25 percent and 30 percent AMI, 28 units between 30 percent and 50 percent AMI, and 9 units at 60 percent AMI.
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