So glad I could attend today to support our The Fitchburg Housing Authority!! With this money the director said we'll be able to gut many units, provide better heating and modernize our units to allow our elder population to age in place---providing more accessibility for our residents and better living conditions!
Plus---again---there was cake =) 🍰🎂
Fitchburg's Wallace Tower, on Wallace Ave across from the YMCA is getting approx $10.1M from State grants from MODphase (Modernizing Public Housing And Supporting Elders initiative) which launched in 2016 to improve and preserve public housing around the commonwealth.
“It’s a great nexus of public housing and health care,” said Fitchburg Housing Authority Executive Director Douglas Bushman. Bushman said the money will help jump-start several rehabilitation projects that address capital needs and improve accessibility for aging-in-communities at Wallace Tower. “It’s a program that’s going to help senior citizens that live in public housing age in place,” he said. “So they can live their lives in the communities that they love, surrounded by their friends and family.”
The Fitchburg Housing Authority will modernize the 130-unit, high-rise elderly development built in 1973, including upgrading 13 accessible units to current code.
Fitchburg plans to coordinate existing health care programs with new nutritional and socialization programs to promote aging-in-community in this downtown development with access to local amenities.
This year, the state awarded $23.5 million grant funding to housing authorities in Amesbury, Beverly, Chelmsford, Fairhaven, Fitchburg, Lexington, and Lowell.
https://www.sentinelandenterprise.com/2019/12/19/fitchburg-housing-authority-receives-10-million-for-wallace-tower-upgrade
