By Nora Grace-Flood, New Haven Independent
The Elicker Administration is one step closer to buying and selling two two-family homes on Dixwell Avenue — so that a nonprofit can maintain the currently megalandlord-held properties as rentals.
The City Plan Commission offered a favorable recommendation on the latest step in that plan during its most recent monthly online meeting Wednesday night.
The commissioners voted in support of the city’s proposal to sell the two-family houses at 262 and 263 Dixwell Ave. to the local faith-based affordable housing nonprofit, the Beulah Land Development Corporation.
According to so-called “disposition summary sheets” included in a packet of documents recently reviewed by the Livable City Initiative’s Property Acquisition & Disposition Committee (PAD), the city plans to sell 262 Dixwell Ave. for $245,000 and 263 Dixwell Ave. for $250,000. Those prices are the same as the respective properties’ latest appraised values.
Even though the city won the City Plan Commission’s endorsement of the proposed city-to-Beulah sales, the city does not yet officially own 262 and 263 Dixwell.
READ MORE This article was originally posted to New Haven Independent
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