June 23, 2010 – The Ithaca Housing Authority (IHA) is concluding the first part of a project that will provide its residents with new amenities within their homes. Currently 163 apartments in Titus Towers 1 (TT1) are receiving the final touches on a reworking of their kitchen and bathrooms. The kitchen cabinets and countertops within the apartments have been ripped out and replaced, as well as the bathroom countertops, medicine cabinets and new vanities as well. The previous installation of these items took place in 1972 when TT1 was built.
Beginning very soon, IHA will move this project to their family site locations to provide those apartments at the Northside, Southview and Overlook locations with new kitchen and bathroom amenities as well. Of this $926,000 project, $649,230 was funded by the stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2010. This funding has created new jobs as the stimulus was intended to do as well as provided IHA’s residents with more updated cabinet and countertops. The remainder of the total came from Capitol Funding.
For IHA, this project will increase their marketability and improve their housing stock. The IHA was very excited to take part in a project that was able to benefit not just their residents, but also a project that helped out those within the community. The entire project should be finished around August 31st of this year and the IHA is already looking toward future projects that will improve the quality of life for their residents.
