Playter Gardens at the Market – Anticipated Opening in 2025
Developer SAA|EVI will create 62 units of affordable housing ranging from single-family rentals to multifamily apartment units on city-owned properties on Playter Street, between Broadway and Paderewski. The Matt Urban Center will provide supportive services to over half of these units.
The Mill at Crossroads – 2021
The Mill at Crossroads is a 78 unit affordable rental housing complex located at 19 Doat Street in Buffalo’s Genesee / Moselle Neighborhood. This historic renovation project by Regan Development features modern 1, 2, and 3-bedroom apartments in a former warehouse space, with free on-site parking and laundry facilities. Of those 78 units, 21 apartments have been designated for households with at least one person who meets the State of New York and Federal definition of homeless or homeless family. Of those 21 apartments, 15 will have a preference for survivors of domestic violence. Tenants in these designated units have the support of the Matt Urban Center’s Permanent Supportive Housing team, including access to case managers working on-site and a broad array of support services.
Hope House – 2020
The former Buffalo Public School #57 building has been converted to a mixed-use community service space. The project includes 27 affordable apartment units for clients of Best Self Behavioral Health, and our Hope Center and Street Outreach team are now housed in that building. We also partner with Feed716 to provide an urban diner in this building several days per week.
HELP Buffalo II – 2018
Located at Hickory and Broadway, this project provides 47 affordable units to the Buffalo community. The Matt Urban Center partnered with HELP USA to construct and manage this much needed building for the East Side. The project features 1, 2 and 3, bedroom apartments. The Matt Urban Center continues its involvement at HELP Buffalo II by providing case management services for residents of the building.
Hope Gardens Apartments – 2014
Hope Gardens provides 20 chronically homeless unaccompanied women with permanent supportive housing in a single site with efficiency size apartments within our community. Staff utilize a low demand/harm reduction method of case management. Holding true to the housing first model, the vast majority of our clients have lived on the streets or in abandoned buildings just prior to entry into Hope Gardens. Our goal, especially the first year, is to work with residents to rebuild healthy social networks and foster friendships among the residents. As many of our residents lived in isolation as a way of protecting themselves while living on the streets and while isolation may have kept them safe, our hope is to restore their sense of belonging in an accepting environment where healing may occur at their own pace.