We draw inspiration from the Urban Development Corporation’s development of affordable housing on New York City’s Roosevelt Island, formerly Blackwell’s (later Welfare) Island, the site of multiple public institutions in the late 1800’s.

Buscada.com reviewed the history of the Urban Development Corporation’s long, and ultimately successful, design process which led to the creation of an accessible community on Roosevelt Island that included substantial affordable housing. Click here and here to learn about it.

City Jail on Blackwell’s Island (1893). (Wikimedia Commons)

Residential buildings on Roosevelt Island, present day (Wikimedia Commons)