The mission of the Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation is to improve our Bronx neighborhood by providing community run housing that is safe, sound and affordable.
Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation
The Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation oversees management of more than 95 apartment buildings with over 2,600 affordable units. While most of our work has been in occupied buildings that were renovated with tenants in place, we have also renovated 11 vacant buildings. Additionally, we have completed several new construction projects including Edison Arms, a 70-unit facility for Senior Citizens built in partnership with Fordham University and New Walton Apartments a 2-building development, for formerly homeless and low-income families. We are now leasing Jacob's Place, a new 63 unit building and are designing other projects with more than 250 additional apartments.
Another important project for the Housing Corporation is Concourse House. We acquired and renovated the former nursing home in 1991. Concourse House now provides transitional housing for 42 homeless women with young children. Concourse House also contains space for community offices and meetings along with the neighborhood's only full service daycare center. It is a hub for community improvement activities in the Northwest Bronx.
The Housing Corporation founded Fordham Bedford Children’s Services (FBCS) in 1995. FBCS oversees educational and recreational programs for hundreds of children throughout our neighborhood. FBCS provides assistance with childcare, immigration and provides ESL and citizenship classes. FBCS operates the state of the art Heiskell Enterprise Technology Center.
The Housing Corporation is a leader in the effort to create and preserve affordable housing. Major renovations are planned or in progress in more than 15 of our existing community run buildings. We are also a leader in neighborhood based 'green construction' and energy conservation efforts in both new and existing housing.
FBHC is involved in many community development efforts and projects throughout the Northwest Bronx. We coordinated the efforts to bring millions of dollars in improvements into historic Edgar Allan Poe Park. A new Visitor's Center for the park is about to begin. We have led an effort to restore Coles Lane at Kingsbridge Road with Phase I work about to begin. We built Frances Sullivan Park on Decatur Avenue and are completing the restoration of Fordham Bedford Children's Park on Briggs Avenue. Public safety, city services, education and more all receive attention from the Housing Corporation's programs.
