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Two Nonprofits Join Forces for Affordable Housing
The Fifth Avenue Committee and Neighbors Helping Neighbors will join forces in order to better serve South Brooklyn's affordable housing needs.
Two local nonprofits have announced a partnership to promote affordable and responsible home ownership, reports the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.
The Fifth Avenue Committee, a South Brooklyn community development organization, and Neighbors Helping Neighbors, which helps low-income Brooklyn residents find housing, announced their partnership at a fundraising event in Park Slope earlier this month, according to the Eagle.
The partnership will provide a new headquarters for NHN’s homebuyer education and mortgage counseling services at FAC’s community development center, at 621 DeGraw Street, as well as a new satellite office on 36th Street in Sunset Park.
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The two organizations recently worked together to open the Red Hook Homes, a 60-unit development with 40 affordable units and 20 middle-income apartments, as reported by the Brooklyn Eagle earlier this month.
Locally, the Fifth Avenue Committee has also been a vocal opponent of the Atlantic Yards project, as they believe they were misled as to the project would include.
