$7 Million Affordable Senior Housing Complex

Posted on: Jul 1st, 2014 | News and Announcements

Mobile County will open the doors to another 48 housing units for low- to moderate-income senior citizens with a ground-breaking for Baytown Senior Village at 10 a.m. Monday, June 30 at 4291 McCrary Road in Semmes. (Press conference will be held on the north side corner of McCrary and Moffett behind Winn Dixie.) The $7 million senior housing complex is funded with $800,000 in Mobile County HOME funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that provides formula grants to states and localities to fund a wide range of activities including construction or rehabilitating affordable housing. ?We are grateful to get these HOME funds to construct affordable housing here in Mobile County, where our senior citizens can live in decent and affordable apartments,? said County Commission President Connie Hudson. Also partnering in the project is Alabama Housing Finance which is providing $1 million in state HOME funds, and Federal Housing Credit Equity ? a tax credit providing $4.7 million. Local developer Clarence Ball will represent the private partners in the project. ?We are willing to take some of the risk of development in the hope that it may offer us a return and, at the same time, change the lives of many people for the better,? said Ball. The development will consist of residential structures and a community building/leasing office. The unit breakdown includes 24 one-bedroom units and 24 two-bedroom units. ?Many of our senior citizens live in decent, clean and new units through the public, private and non-profit efforts in our community that have been ongoing for years,? said Mobile County Commissioner Merceria Ludgood.