Environment & Housing

CIBS Housing and Physical Development Network aim is to create and preserve affordable housing and promote sustainable land-use development. Network members are transforming all of Bedford-Stuyvesant into a thriving community.

One key program, run by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (BSRC) is the Weatherization Assistance Program which provides for Central Brooklyn. BSRC helps low-income residents reduce home maintenance costs by promoting energy efficiency. Communities across the city are struggling to manage skyrocketing fuel prices. Communities of color often struggle harder to meet rising costs because they frequently have fewer resources and older housing stock. 

 

To ease costs, BSRC’s Weatherization Program offers services to reduce energy costs and create healthier living environments. Services include:

The housing stock in Bedford Stuyvesant is among the city’s oldest and least energy efficient therefore it is especially important to assist residents to meet rising costs. Homeowner, Stephanie Bradford owns her own home in Brooklyn and was struggling to pay rising heating bills. “These times are serious. So whatever way you have to do to save money, you have to save it. This winter was horrible. It was a matter of either heating the house or eating. And it was really a choice.” Luckily, she found and qualified for BSRC’s low-income weatherization program. As a result, Ms. Bradford installed new windows, added insulation and put in new energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs to lower her bills.

 

BSRC’S Weatherization Program began thirty years ago and since then it has weatherized approximately 9,200 homes throughout Central Brooklyn and completed $20 million in energy conservation measures.

 

To see if you qualify for assistance in improving your home’s energy efficiency, please contact:

 

Every homeowner is eligible for financial incentives to make their homes more energy efficient but few homeowners know how to take advantage of these incentives. 

 

CIBS Housing and Physical Development Network is working with the Pratt Center for Community Development on an innovative pilot program to Retrofit Bedford Stuyvesant, block by block. On a pilot block on Herkimer Street, residents are receiving free energy audits and assistance accessing financial incentives to provide energy upgrades to their homes available. The block is also receiving free street trees from the City’s Million Trees NYC Program. To read more about the program, click here.

 
 

 

718-636-3486 ext. 6450

wfleisch@pratt.edu
 

Network members are committed to providing low-income housing rentals, affordable home ownership and commercial leasing opportunities in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Currently there are a number of projects in development throughout the community where affordable homes, condominiums and commercial spaces are being built. 

 

For more information regarding low-income housing rentals, affordable homes and condominiums for sale or ground commercial space for lease, contact:

 

1368 Fulton Street, Brooklyn NY 11216

(718) 636-6930

 

665 Willoughby Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11206

(718) 852-6004

 

460 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, 11216

(718) 399-0146
www.bsdcorp.org

 

1012 Gates Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11221

(718) 919-2100

 

132 Ralph Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11233

(718) 453-9490

 

201 Dekalb Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205

(718) 522-2613

 

CIBS Housing and Physical Development Network provides upgrades to homes and multifamily buildings because of the continued support of program sponsors such as New York State Division of Housing and Community Renewal, New York State Energy and Research Development Authority (NYSERDA), Million Trees NYC, National Grid, and Con Edison. We thank them for their steadfast support of central Brooklyn and look forward to a sustained and fruitful partnership.