Program areas at IMPACCT Brooklyn
Impacct Brooklyn develops, owns and operates affordable housing, including supportive housing servicesand other programs and services that improve the well-being of vulnerable and/or individuals formerly living with homelessness. Impacct Brooklyn provides direct supportive housing services at our gibb mansion and navy green residence. These facilities houses chronically ill and low income individuals. We provide responsive and compassionate care to the residents who call it home. On staff are social workers, case managers, a resident manager, cook and cooking staff, a substance abuse specialist, and activities coordinator. Residents receive regular counseling on a weekly basis. Gibb mansion is always bustling with activity. Residents share five fresh, hot meals per week, and the activities coordinator keeps the schedule full of classes, outings, parties and Community events.the Community at gibb mansion is thriving as staff and residents work together to create a positive, healthy and empowering environment that facilitates healing and wellness. In fiscal 2023 71 individuals were housed, 50 chronically ill individuals are receiving case management and counseling. Impacct Brooklyn's other supportive housing is found at 40 vanderbilt avenue, navy green. This 98-unit permanent supportive housing building is part of a large scale residential complex named navy green with 458 units of mixed income housing, open green space, retail facility and Community space. The residence is comprised of studio apartments for 59 single adults that are chronically ill with severe and persistent mental illness and/or chemical addition. The remaining 38 units are for low income Community residents. There is also a live in superintendent and 24/7 staffed security onsite. Social services are offered to all residents by Brooklyn Community housing and services and funded through the historic ny/ny iii partnership between nyc and nys through the department of health and mental hygiene.
Our economic development department serves the small business Community in central Brooklyn by providing technical support, commercial leasing services and pro-bono legal services through the law firm stroock & stroock. Impacct Brooklyn also serves on the board of the marp and fulton street business improvement districts.
Affordable housing development works with Community members, government officials and agencies, financial institutions and developers to build and preserve affordable and supportive housing units for very low to moderate income households. As part of the organizations mission of ensuring the long term affordability of housing for low income residents. Impacct Brooklyn has committed 143 units to the joint ownership entity (the joeny) as part of a joint venture with bridge street local development, sna, and bedford stuyvesant restoration corporation to preserve over 500 units of affordable housing. We have a pipeline of affordable housing projects that include mission / faith based development with a focus on senior housing. In addition, working with the city of ny and new york state we will be building another supportive housing facility for seniors living with chronic mental illness located in bedford stuyvesant, Brooklyn.