Center City Apartments

East Providence, Rhode Island

Date In Design

Size 75,000 SF

Cost TBD

Client ONE Neighborhood Builders

A unique, non-profit collaborative drives new affordable housing with specialized social services.

Taunton Avenue Collaborative, a unique and inspired partnership of four, non-profit housing and social service agencies, pooled their expertise and resources in order to transform three contiguous, vacant and blighted properties in a busy commercial district into a mixed-income, affordable residential community which could offer plentiful services and amenities.

Union is providing the master planning and architecture for two new, affordable multi-family structures on the site which will create 160 new, one-, two-, and three-bedroom affordable apartments–in a community where they are very much in need.

40% of the housing units will be “permanent supportive housing,” which pairs housing with case management and supportive services provided by ONE Neighborhood Builders – one of the state’s leading non-profit housing developers and community development corporations, and a member of the collaborative.

Of the 160 apartments, 25 will be managed by Crossroads Rhode Island who will provide ongoing support to individuals and families who’ve experienced homelessness. Another member of the collaborative, Foster Forward, will manage 20 apartments and provide housing and services for foster youth who have aged out of foster care programs. And the fourth collaborative member, Family Service of Rhode Island, will support 20 units and provide supportive services to families who have been involved with, or are at risk of being involved with, the Department of Children, Youth and Families.

The remaining 60 percent of units are designated affordable for households earning between 60 to 120 percent of the area median income.