A South Shore homeless service provider has finished renovating the first 24 studio apartments in a Brockton hotel it's converting into permanent supportive housing for people coming out of homelessness.
Father Bill's & MainSpring started renting the hotel, the Rodeway Inn, in the summer of 2020 to make its nearby emergency shelter for adults less crowded during the pandemic. ItIt's the first time a homeless service provider in Massachusetts has converted a former hotel into permanent supportive housing for people who were formerly homeless. The building, now known as Roadway Apartments, will have 69 apartments once finished.
"Really seeing these beautiful units coming on line and people having the opportunity to consider themselves really settled in their new home, in a course of time that is just breakneck speed compared to other affordable housing projects, is just really exciting," Connolly said, adding that it would normally take three to four years to develop a building with this number of efficiency apartments.
Delores Domenico, 73, is one of the tenants who moved in this week. She became homeless for the first time last May, when the house in Stoughton where she had rented an apartment for 17 years burned down. Her mother died in the fire, and Domenico says she lost all of her possessions. The only money she had saved, $2,000 in federal stimulus payments, has been tied up in her mother's bank account she can't yet access.
"It's really cute. It's a little studio — just a bed and a kitchenette and a bathroom," Domenico said."But at least after being in a shelter for six months, this is nice and quiet ... I can come and go as I please. There are a lot of restrictions that I don't have here, that I had at the shelter.
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