With a major grant from the Brooklyn Community Foundation and its assistance with government agencies, Habitat NYC crafted a multi-family model and now has become the largest producer of Habitat homes in the Northeast; it is also the first one to acquire government–owned land.
Habitat has recently constructed an unprecedented project: a LEED-certified 41 unit condominium in Bedford Stuyvesant to provide affordable, green housing to low-income Brooklynites and 16 two and three bedroom condominiums on four different sites in central
The Brooklyn Community Foundation Community Development Fund supports programs which encourage thoughtful planning so that Brooklyn neighborhoods have the stability they need to succeed.
Founded in 1942, the Catherine McAuley High School in East Flatbush was once a convent whose rooms, over time, were left empty. Today, as a model in-city boarding program, the rooms are full again with young women gaining an "education for life."
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