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St. John's Residences More than 85,000 individuals — most of whom live close to the economic edge — are jammed into Eastern Brooklyn's Ocean Hill-Brownsville neighborhood. According to the area's Community Board 16, "permanent and affordable housing continues to be a high priority for our community." Our St. John's Residences, Habitat-NYC's newest development in Ocean Hill-Brownsville, Brooklyn, will help provide a solution.
St. John's Residences are Habitat-NYC's first new-construction initiative developed with partial funding from the federal Neighborhood Stabilization Program 2 (NSP2). Established under the Recovery Act of 2009, the program's goal is to help revive neighborhoods like Ocean Hill-Brownsville that have been hit hard by foreclosure and abandonment. Habitat-NYC will match the NSP2 funds with private dollars, city funds and a construction loan from Amalgamated Bank. The Office of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is among the project's funders. The project is located at 1812 St. John's Place, bounded by Saratoga Avenue and East New York Avenue.
Markowitz said: "With the St. John's Residences — and previously the Atlantic Avenue Residence, the largest Habitat development in New York City — Habitat-NYC is helping deserving Brooklyn families achieve the 'American Dream' of home ownership in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. I am proud to support the construction of these affordable condos and salute the selfless volunteers with Habitat-NYC for their 'sweat equity' — building energy-efficient, 'green' homes to ensure a future that’s not only affordable, but sustainable." Construction began in January of 2011.
Learn more about St. John's Residences Historic Loew's Pitkin Theater, across from St. John's Condos, to become school, retail and dining space. 
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Habitat For Humanity
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These new-construction condos will become home to a dozen low-income families, who will live in affordable, two- and three-bedroom condos units. In keeping with our commitment to green building, these homes will meet LEED and ENERGY STAR standards and ensure healthy environments and cost-saving fuel efficiency.
These four-story buildings will rise on three long-vacant lots — neighborhood eyesores that the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) sold to Habitat-NYC for $12,000.