After Housing Fight in East Harlem Building, 9 Units Open to Applications
(DNAINFO) William Mathis | January 28, 2016 — Applications are now open for nine units of affordable housing in Central Harlem in a building that has been at the center of a local affordable housing fight for years.
Even before the West Harlem Group Association bought the building at 2049 Fifth Ave. from the city in 2013, longtime tenants said they feared that they would be priced out of their homes under the new owner.
The new apartments, slated as affordable, are far more expensive than the $357 that one former tenant was paying before the purchase.