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New Bayview community center takes novel low-income development strategy public
The community center at the heart of the Bayview affordable housing redevelopment on “the Triangle” Downtown has opened its doors to the public. Bright and airy, with big windows and…
Read MoreBayview development emerges as a bold model for low-income housing in Madison
Once only a vision, the Bayview Foundation’s $58 million redevelopment on the “The Triangle” Downtown is rising, embraced as a new home for its diverse, low-income residents and as a head-turning model for Madison.
A year ago, Bayview moved some of its residents from its 102 obsolete townhouses to an eye-catching, orangey-red, four-story building with 48 units and top floor community room at the corner of West Washington Avenue and Regent Street.
Now, the nonprofit foundation is completing an 11,500-square-foot community center — the heartbeat of Bayview — that will more than double the size of the existing worn one and open in January. There are also a 25-unit apartment building and six- and seven-unit townhouses in a bold array of colors, with residents moving in this month.
Read MoreA community effort brings a new community mural, “Hope Finds a Home,” to Bayview Apartments
Bayview Townhomes, one of the most diverse communities in Madison, is now also home to a massive mural that features ideas and actual bits of painting from 120 of those tenants.
The artwork is titled “Hope Finds a Home” and is on the Regent Street-facing side of a new apartment building at 720 W. Washington Ave. It’s the first in a series of public art projects that will be featured at Bayview Townhomes across from Brittingham Park on Madison’s south side.
Read MoreGiant Bayview Townhomes mural took a village effort
Bayview Townhomes, one of the most diverse communities in Madison, is now also home to a massive mural that features ideas and actual bits of painting from 120 of those tenants.
The artwork is titled “Hope Finds a Home” and is on the Regent Street-facing side of a new apartment building at 720 W. Washington Ave. It’s the first in a series of public art projects that will be featured at Bayview Townhomes across from Brittingham Park on Madison’s south side.
Read MoreOpinion | Funding boosts children and youth programs at neighborhood centers
When Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway visited Kennedy Heights Community Center this summer, Sedrick, age 7, joyfully attending summer classes there, told her he was going to be a mayor someday.
So we can add “encouraging big dreams” to the list of essential services Neighborhood Centers provide.
Neighborhood Centers throughout Madison operate in the heart, and as the heart, of some of the city’s most challenged neighborhoods. We have come together as a coalition to heighten awareness of the effectiveness of our services, speak with a unified voice about the challenges we face, and advocate for more investment in, and support for, the work we do.
Read MoreAlexis London aims to get it right
Bayview, and the greater Triangle Neighborhood, were haunted by an ill-conceived 1960s low-income housing effort that razed homes and displaced hundreds of immigrant families in the name of “urban renewal.”
It was paramount that that not happen again.
Fortunately, in London, Bayview had chosen a leader singularly well equipped to make sure it didn’t.
Read MoreJeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award Winner is Alexis London
Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway announced today that Alexis London is the recipient of the 2022 Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award.
The award was created by the Common Council to honor Madison residents who exemplify Jeff
Erlanger’s model of fairness, openness, and civility in public discourse. Jeff, who passed away in 2007, was committed to public service. He understood that through civil debate and effective representation, those with varying opinions could come together on how to solve issues within the community. Mr. Erlanger served on the City of Madison’s Economic Development Commission and chaired the Commission on People with Disabilities as well as the Board of Directors of the Community Living Alliance.
This year’s winner, Alexis London, is the Executive Director of the Bayview Foundation and is leading the redevelopment of the Bayview Foundation’s affordable housing micro-neighborhood.
Bayview’s diverse residents settle into new homes as part of $54 million development
On a crisp late November day, sunlight streams through the windows in Mai Kommavang’s spacious new apartment that’s part of the first phase of a $54 million redevelopment of a diverse, international, low-income community Downtown.
Kommavang was among the first to move from one of the Bayview Foundation’s 102 now-obsolete townhouses built in 1971 to an unmistakable, orangey-red, four-story building with 48 units and top-floor community room at the corner of West Washington Avenue and Regent Street, each unit featuring high ceilings, open floor plans, ample windows, new appliances and more.
Read MoreLack of units in Madison, ever-growing population results in racial disparities in housing
As housing and rent prices continue to rise in Madison, design justice may be the key to affordable housing progress.
Organizations like the Bayview Foundation, a group that focuses on affordable housing with design justice based in Madison, strive to address the overlapping issue of affordable housing and the lack of supply for housing needs and demands—one solution being design justice. The goal is to connect marginalized communities with resources to address structural inequality in areas like housing.
Read MoreParisi recognizes 2022 Climate Champions
As housing and rent prices continue to rise in Madison, design justice may be the key to affordable housing progress.
Madison organization sets an example for affordable housing amidst the city’s growing population to address the housing crisis within low-income communities.
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