Canal Commons, Rochester, NY



Summer 2024 Newsletter

Westside Homes - Buffalo, NY

Construction continues on The Buffalo Neighborhood Stabilization Company’s Westside Homes. This project encompasses both new construction and scattered site rehabilitation with a total of 49 apartments, 16 units of which will be permanent supportive housing. Anticipated completion of this project is Summer 2024.

School House Manor - Oakfield, NY

Work is nearly complete on ODS Management’s preservation rehab of the historic School House Manor, a USDA Section 515 senior housing project. Extensive rehabilitation work on the 40-year-old property will preserve 27 apartments and create 8 new apartments in underutilized space. Tenants have been moving into their new units in phases, with the last units to be finished in September. 

MMDA has had a highly successful funding season. In its 2023 Fall 9% Round, New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) made awards to Neighbors of Watertown’s Apartments at Mill & Main to construct 63 supportive housing units in Watertown and Regan Development’s Colvin Avenue Apartments toward the construction of 63 affordable residential units and a childcare center in Albany. People Inc.’s Juniper Apartments received an HCR 9% award, plus a Homeless Housing and Assistance Program (HHAP) award of $2,669,234, to construct a total of 65 mixed-income units across two buildings in Hamburg.

HHAP was also awarded to the following projects:

• Regional Economic Community Action Program’s Fresh Start Apartments received $4,934,910 to construct 11 units of permanent supportive housing in Newburgh.
• Utica Center for Development’s Rev. Dr. Mary Webster Wellness Center received $9,967,121 toward the rehabilitation of a former YWCA into 20 units of permanent supportive housing with a ground floor wellness center, which will include Utica’s only indoor pool open to the surrounding community.
• YWCA of Rochester and Monroe County’s Persimmon Place received $4,066,513 to create a 12-unit emergency family shelter in Rochester.

Finally, Allegany County Community Opportunities and Rural Development’s Wellsville Apartments received an award of $2,748,557 from HCR’s HOME-ARP program to construct six townhome-style units in Wellsville, which will serve as the first units of permanent supportive housing in Allegany County.

Many thanks to New York State HCR and HHAP for recognizing the importance of these projects to the communities they serve!

In May, our very own Monica McCullough was selected as one of Rochester Business Journal's 2024 Women of Excellence! The 2024 Women of Excellence "inspire those around them by their actions, their words, and their deeds. They support the next generation of women leaders."



We offer Monica our congratulations and thanks for the outstanding achievements she has made in expanding affordable housing opportunities in Rochester and across the state of New York.