Albany Housing Authority News » Townsend Park Homes

Townsend Park Homes Federalization

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:20:36 +0000

The Albany Housing Authority has applied to federalize Townsend Park Homes. Townsend Park Homes or 137C is a 158 unit state building where 131 of the 148 maximum Section 8 project based voucher units are currently receiving subsidy. Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the US Dept. of HUD is offering public housing authorities the opportunity to federalize affordable housing properties without affecting the 1999 HUD-imposed cap on the number of units allowable under the Annual Contributions Contract.

Townsend Park Flag Raising

admin — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:55:01 +0000

ALBANY — From street level, it must have been a peculiar scene.

Two women paused on Central Avenue Monday morning and stood at attention with their hands over their hearts as the strains of “The Star-Spangled Banner” drifted up from somewhere unseen below.

About 14 feet beneath them in a courtyard outside the Townsend Park Homes, Ron Scott watched in silence as a large American flag ascended one of two brand-new 50-foot silver flagpoles rising in front of the 18-story apartment building at Henry Johnson Boulevard.

For Scott, 68, an Ohio native and retired radio broadcaster who spent much of his adult life in the Army and New York Army National Guard, the brief ceremony marked the completion of a years-long quest since he noticed that when the Veterans Day, Memorial Day and Columbus Day parades approached the Albany Housing Authority complex, the bands would stop playing music.

“I’ve been on this mission for four years,” is the way he told it.

Townsend Park Field Report

admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:41:26 +0000

A Townsend Park Field Report has been completed for Townsend Park Homes. For questions on the report please contact:

Chiquita D’Arbeau
Executive Assistant
Albany Housing Authority
200 South Pearl Street
Albany, NY 12202
Phone: (518) 641-7518
Fax: (518) 641-7545