Construction to begin on new Jefferson Avenue affordable housing

The next step for a major housing development on Buffalo’s East Side is now concrete and steel. Buffalo’s Common Council approved the final stage of a $31 million People Inc. project on Jefferson Avenue.

The Common Council dotted the “i’s” and crossed the “t’s” Tuesday for project near the Johnnie B. Wiley complex. It will be 89 units, with 79 of them considered affordable housing, in a city where there is a shortage.