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Friday, November 30, 2018

Officials push for demolition of Greene Homes in Bridgeport

BRIDGEPORT — Officials are hoping to demolish the Charles F. Greene Homes public housing complex in the Hollow after years of maintenance problems and violence. Mayor Joe Ganim and Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., are calling on the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to support the decommissioning of the housing complex off of Highland Avenue, a Friday news release said. “The living conditions at Greene Homes are unacceptable,” Ganim said in a prepared statement. “I made a commitment to improving the quality of life and public housing in Bridgeport and sometimes that means building, but in this instance, it means tearing down.

from News https://www.ctpost.com/local/article/Officials-push-for-demolition-of-Greene-Homes-in-13435061.php

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