Former New Orleans grocery store is now affordable housing

NEW ORLEANS ( WGNO ) — A former New Orleans grocery store has been turned into affordable housing and Adrianne Todman, the US Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, visited on Friday, July 26, to share her thoughts.

The new housing complex is called the City Square 162 Apartments, and according to Todman, the goal behind it is to provide a quality market rate and assisted housing for the area. The project utilized multiple programs in its development as well as federal funding.

“There’s 76 families who have the opportunity to not just have housing, but for all of them, really affordable housing, and some of them, subsidized housing from HUD,” said Todman. “And we know that’s something families need up and down the income spectrum,”

She went on to emphasize during her visit that locations in need of re-purposing, such as the former grocery store that now makes up the City Square 162 Apartments, are the ideal locations for the development of new housing.

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