In Brooklyn, a Supportive Housing Development gets the Big Firm Treatment.
Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA) provided the design for Edwin’s Place, a 125-unit affordable and supportive development, but getting the project built took a village.
Edwin’s Place, a new housing development with 88 supportive and 37 affordable units in Brooklyn’s Brownsville neighborhood designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (RAMSA), opened in 2021—but getting to this point took over three decades. “In the 80s, at the start of the HIV crisis, I wanted to do a project that would address housing for men and women who had chronic illnesses,” says Matthew Okebiyi, the founder and CEO of the African American Planning Commission (AAPCI), which co-developed Edwin’s Place with New York nonprofit developer Breaking Ground. But Okebiyi felt…. Continue Reading.