On August 3, Mayor Mamdani and The Doe Fund broke ground on the Casanova Residence in Hunts Point, a supportive and affordable housing development that will deliver 96 apartments — 58 of them supportive housing, the rest handed out through the city's standard affordable-housing lottery.

HPD is the city partner agency on the deal, and Casanova Residence is one of the first shovels in the ground under Mamdani's Block by Block plan — a pledge to put $1 billion into supportive housing over the next two years. The mayor's press release doesn't name a general contractor, doesn't give a completion date, and doesn't put a number on the construction contract itself.

“A billion dollars over two years isn't one job — it's a pipeline, and Hunts Point just proved it's moving from paper to pilings.”

If you build supportive housing in this city, that's the tell you want to see. A billion dollars over two years isn't one job — it's a pipeline, and Hunts Point just proved it's moving from paper to pilings. HPD-financed supportive housing usually runs through the agency's regular development and construction channels, and The Doe Fund has delivered projects like this before — they don't always shop the GC role out the way a city agency solicitation would.

Watch HPD's site and The Doe Fund's own procurement channel for the eventual general contractor and sub list — neither is public yet. If you do interior trades, MEP, or general construction in supportive or affordable housing, this is the kind of project where getting your name in early with the developer beats waiting for a City Record ad to show up months from now.