Small Project Boosts Public Housing

"A developer will break ground Friday on a modest 49-unit development in the Morrisania section of the Bronx that some hope has greater significance: as a model for building public housing despite funding constraints.

The project at 1070 Washington Ave. marks the first time in years that public housing units have been built on privately owned land.

While the Bloomberg administration has overseen the creation of more than 130,000 new units of "affordable" housing—some of which have been tucked into market-rate developments—construction of public housing has been modest, experts say."