Community Housing Innovations

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Community Housing Innovations, Inc. provides the housing and human services that enable low and moderate income families and individuals to achieve the greatest social and economic independence at the lowest cost to society.

Breaking News...

White Plains Now Taking Applications for CHI's
Newest Affordable Housing Development
Minerva Place Condominiums

News 12 covered the story.

Minerva Place Condominiums has completed construction and is ready for occupancy!! Thanks to grants available, prices to qualified first time homebuyers start at $210,000 for a one-bedroom and $250,000 for a two-bedroom. While most homes have been sold, there are still a few left. Call 914-879-9865 for a showing.

Minerva Place:
Click here for News 12 Report When Construction Began
Article from August 2008 (pdf)
Brochure (pdf)
Ådditional Information (pdf)
Condominiums Application (pdf)

CHI Foreclosure Prevention Featured in
The New York Times

News 12 covered the story.

Foreclosure Crisis in Westchester Crosses Economic Boundaries
Published May 14, 2009
The New York Times

The room was filled with people in trouble or about to be, and the fact that they were in the city’s public library was bitterly fitting. The library is on South First Avenue, a street that is the epicenter of Westchester’s foreclosure crisis, with at least 27 homes on just four blocks in various stages of foreclosure over the past several years...
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CHI to Play Role
in Implementing
Discrimination Settlement

The New York Times
IN THE REGION | Westchester
New Housing, After a Court Order
By ELSA BRENNER
Published: January 7, 2010

VOICING compliance with a federal court order, the administration of Rob Astorino, the new county executive, pledged last week that Westchester would shift direction and create affordable housing in predominantly white towns and villages rather than in localities with high concentrations of blacks and Hispanics.

OWNERSHIP Minerva Place opened recently in White Plains, which has a diverse population.

But developers of affordable housing said that at the same time they set off in a new direction, they will also continue to build in lower-income areas.

In August, following a three-year legal battle with the Anti-Discrimination Center in Manhattan, the county, then under the administration of Andrew J. Spano, was forced to agree to create affordable housing in overwhelmingly white towns and villages like Scarsdale and Briarcliff Manor, where zoning boards have traditionally been resistant.
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