Demolition to make way for New Canaan housing
NEW CANAAN — The town is expected to add 40 more affordable housing units to its inventory after demolition has started on the old Canaan Parish complex this week.
In place of the old Canaan Parish will be a second multifamily building offering affordable housing units, known as the South building, to parallel the North building that was erected in September.
It expected to be completed “around the end of October 2022,” said Scott Hobbs, chairman of the New Canaan Housing Authority on Monday. He added that he hopes the foundation work will begin in January.
Tenants from the old buildings moved into the new 60-unit North building this fall, which is one of two that will replace the 10 structures at Canaan Parish, 186 Lakeview Ave. The new building will have a total of 100 units, up from the 60 that Canaan Parish offered.
The new Canaan Parish buildings will feature one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments. Hobbs said the buildings will have management offices and a tenant common space.
Hobbs said that “supply chain disruptions are still very common and we can expect to have spot delays.”
The North building was completed one month later than expected due to supply chain delays. AP Construction, the contracted company, “has worked hard to order as much as possible as early as possible to try to minimize impact,” Hobbs said.
The new building will also offer “designated affordable units under Connecticut rules” as opposed to the federally funded Section 8 housing that the first building offered, the Housing Authority chairman said.
Tenants of the 60 prior Canaan Parish units are set to receive vouchers to be used for rent toward their new units through Section 8, the federal government's program that assists lowincome families, the elderly and the disabled to obtain safe and sanitary housing, according to Hobbs.