East Village affordable housing projects to be built with eco-friendly 'mass timber'

Mass timber housing breaks ground

Father Joe's Villages broke ground Thursday on an eight-story affordable housing project in East Village built with mass timber, an engineered wood product that cuts emissions and construction time.

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  1. Father Joe's Villages broke ground Thursday on an eight-story affordable housing project in East Village built with mass timber, an engineered wood product that cuts emissions and construction time.
  2. The development at 16th Street and Island Avenue will have 124 apartments, mostly studios and one-bedrooms, with rents affordable to households earning 30% to 60% of the county's median income.
  3. The builder says mass timber lowered per-unit development costs from $530,000 to $380,000, and a second, taller mass timber project is being planned nearby.
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