NEW YORK: The seventy-second entry for the seniors housing Global Awards 2016 has been received.
When the term “affordable housing” comes to mind, the first thing to pop into your head is unlikely to be high style. That’s exactly the reaction that the team behind The Renaissance Kilpatrick, an affordable senior housing project located in Chicago, is hoping to buck.
Jeanmarie Kapp, chief operating officer of The Renaissance Companies, would be the first to tell you that affordable housing doesn’t have to look like it’s made on the cheap.
“Our promise has always been that affordable housing doesn’t have to look like affordable housing,” says Kapp. “This building is proof positive of that. It’s 90% affordable, but you would never know it looking at it. Not by the way we manage it, not the way it’s developed, not the way it looks.”
