CHPC Luncheon 2013: Impact Award

Samantha Magistro April 9, 2013

"Thanks to everyone who made our Annual Luncheon a great one!"

"We were delighted to celebrate our 54th Annual Luncheon on Thursday April 4 with so many wonderful colleagues! Our extraordinary honorees moved us all with thoughtful speeches connecting the work of the housing and planning industry with improvements to the lives of our population and a better future for NYC’s communities.

In case anyone had missed all the media coverage, Executive Director Jerilyn Perine updated the audience on CHPC’s busy year. HPD Commissioner Mathew Wambua made an exciting announcement extending the adAPT NYC Competition to a number of new sites in the city over the summer. And mayoral candidate Joe Lhota offered his vision for housing and planning as part of his acceptance of the Roger Starr Public Service Award, bestowed on him for his outstanding work as the head of the MTA through Hurricane Sandy."

Peter Magistro, President of Bronx Pro, receives Impact Award for Excellence in Housing:

You can view more videos from the luncheon by clicking below:

"CATCHING UP Peter Magistro is the founder of a company that owns and manages affordable apartment buildings in the Bronx. He said that with time, misperceptions of the Bronx from the ’60s and ’70s have begun to dissipate. Credit Ozier Muhammad/The … — "CATCHING UP Peter Magistro is the founder of a company that owns and manages affordable apartment buildings in the Bronx. He said that with time, misperceptions of the Bronx from the ’60s and ’70s have begun to dissipate. Credit Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times"

The New York Times: Patience & Progress in the Bronx →

Samantha Magistro January 4, 2013

"AS the founder and president of the Bronx Pro Group, a family-run, neighborhood-based company in Morris Park that builds, renovates and manages low- and moderate-income housing in the Bronx, Peter Magistro, 63, has seen the borough struggle and come back to life. A Bronx native and longtime resident who now lives on the Upper West Side, he has an intimate knowledge of local housing trends. He knows where the Bronx has been and where it’s headed.

Q Tell us about your background."

Samantha Magistro May 11, 2012

Groundbreaking for 49 affordable units

"With 150,000 people on a waiting list for public housing in New York City, you have to start somewhere.

That includes new affordable housing to rise in Morrisania that promises hope for 49 families.

Officials broke ground at 1070 Washington Avenue on Friday, May 4 for a new 7-story, $21.7 million building holding a mix of 21 public housing and 28 affordable housing units.

Ten of the affordable units will be for veterans and formerly homeless individuals and families, who will receive supportive services on site. It will include 16 studios, 11 one-bedroom units, 20 two-bedroom units, and one three-bedroom apartment.

The building’s affordable housing units will be set aside for individuals or families making below 60% of the Area Median Income, which is $49,080 for a family of four.

Tenants for the affordable housing units will be chosen by lottery, and those interested in these and other affordable housing units should visit the ‘apartment seekers’ section of the HPD website, www.nyc.gov/hpd."

Source: http://bxtimes.com/stories/2012/19/19_ground_2012_05_10_bx.html

Samantha Magistro May 4, 2012

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."

Source: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304743704577382303895402864?KEYWORDS=1070+washington&mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304743704577382303895402864.html%3FKEYWORDS%3D1070%2Bwashington

Ribbon Cutting at 850 Jennings Street

Samantha Magistro November 1, 2011

WNYC News

Samantha Magistro April 13, 2005

New Ways to Create Affordable Housing

"Finding properties to create affordable housing has always been a daunting task for the city especially now that real estate prices are soaring and old resources are drying up. WNYC's Cindy Rodriguez takes a look at the new ways in which the city is trying to alleviate a longstanding housing crisis."

Source: http://www.wnyc.org/story/84542-new-ways-to-create-affordable-housing/

Christian Science Monitor →

Samantha Magistro November 16, 2004

A public-private answer to affordable housing

"Standing in the center of a littered courtyard of an abandoned, boarded-up building in the Bronx, Peter Magistro is preparing to transform it into one of the hottest commodities in the country today" affordable housing.

'We did a lottery on our last building: We had 5,000 applicants for 50 units,' he says. 'So you get the idea, the demand is endless.'"