Residents and housing staff are relieved to see the start of the long awaited demolition of the 1970’s-era Ida Yarbrough Lo-Rise Homes.  Buildings 4, 6 and 7 are being abated and demolished using $575,000 of Neighborhood Stabilization Program funds.  The grant funds remain from the recently completed rehabilitation of eight historic buildings in Arbor Hill.  City of Albany and Housing Authority staff had to work quickly with NYS Homes and Community Renewal to repurpose and expend the funds before the March 20 deadline, when they would have been returned to the US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.