Renovation of historic Phoenix Coffelt-Lamoreaux apartments keeps 800 in their homes

Coffelt-Lamoreaux Homes/ADI

By Catherine Reagor | The Republic

Phoenix’s historic Coffelt-Lamoreaux Homes were going to be shuttered in 2012.

The state’s first affordable housing project built in 1953 for veterans returning from the Korean War had become too run down and unsafe for its 800 residents. Industrial developments around it were encroaching on the project.

If the 301 apartments closed, it was likely the nearby Arthur M. Hamilton Elementary School would close, too. About 75 percent of its students live in Coffelt-Lamoreaux, near 19th Avenue and Pima Street.

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