Library Village

Library Village was a collaborative project to develop a proposal for the Federal Home Loan Bank’s Affordable Housing Development Competition, as part of an MIT class on Mixed Income Housing Development. With our community partner, South Boston Neighborhood Development Corporation, we developed a proposal for Library Village.

Library Village represents an out-of-the-box solution to develop affordable housing as the need for deeper affordability rises and public resources decline. By leveraging federal, state and city subsidies to develop on below-market, city-owned land, Library Village becomes more than the sum of its parts: a cohesive community asset where a public library enhances the lives of the seniors who live above it and the neighborhood built around it.

Project team:  Eleonora Bershadskaya, Sterling Johnson, Elizabeth Haney,  Szabolcs Kiss, Hyerin Lee, Nathaniel Rosen, Alan Sage, Taeseop Shin, Maia Woluchem, and Shane Zhang.