Harborview Towers is a high-rise public housing development at 376 E. Washington Street.
The project is planned as a renovation of Harborview Towers, a fourteen-story building whose residents include seniors and people with physical disabilities.
Park City Communities, the agency that oversees the property, lists Harborview Towers as a fourteen-story building with 240 one-bedroom units. Its property page says Harborview Towers was built in 1968.
RAD Conversion
Park City Communities lists Harborview Towers as slated for conversion from public housing to project-based Section 8 assistance through HUD’s Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD).
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development describes RAD conversion broadly as the process by which a property currently supported under the public housing program moves to project-based assistance under Section 8, according to a HUD resident fact sheet. A separate HUD resource on RAD and public housing residents states that residents retain the right to remain at a property after conversion, or to return if they are temporarily relocated for construction, and to maintain an affordable rent generally tied to 30% of income.
A Comparable Rehab Across Town
Harborview Towers is not the only Bridgeport affordable housing complex undergoing a major rebuild. Yale Street Commons, a 44-unit townhouse-style development in the city, is also undergoing a complete rehabilitation, as reported by Connecticut Public in September. That $19.5 million project is upgrading building interiors and exteriors, funded in part by $4 million in bond financing along with support from the state Department of Housing and the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority.
In the Yale Street Commons case, Connecticut Public reported that residents will relocate temporarily to available apartments at Park City Place, another affordable complex in Bridgeport, while the work proceeds, and that residents won't see a rent increase as a result of the upgrades.
Project Planning
A ConstructConnect project listing gives a request for value-engineering pricing with a submission deadline earlier this year and names Haynes Construction Company as the contractor awarded the project.
