Ground broke on a $255 million affordable housing project in the South Bronx on June 30, one that will stack 328 apartments and a new health clinic onto the same campus, as first reported by the Bronx Times. The building, called River Commons, is rising on the campus of NYC Health + Hospitals/Gotham Health, Morrisania, a partnership between the hospital system, the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development and private developers.

Of the 328 homes, 229 are affordable apartments reserved for households earning between 30 and 70 percent of the area median income. The other 98 are permanent supportive apartments set aside for NYC Health + Hospitals patients who are experiencing homelessness, placed there through the system’s Housing for Health initiative. So a chunk of the building is aimed squarely at people who show up sick at a public hospital with nowhere to go home to.

“River Commons will deliver 328 homes to the South Bronx, with nearly 70% reserved for low-income New Yorkers and 98 supportive apartments for homeless H+H patients,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said. “By bringing affordable housing, health care and community services together in one place, we’re investing [in] New Yorkers who deserve a chance to build a secure future.”