Paca Street Homes

The homes along Paca street are infill, market rate homes built with subsidies. They were constructed in the late 1990s and have slightly larger lots than the older homes in the area.

The infill housing on Paca Street was compromise of sorts. By the mid 1990‘s most of the buildings on Indiana Avenue had been bulldozed including the homes on Paca, St. Clair and 9th Streets. Originally to accommodate the increasing numbers of commuters the plan had been to build a Paca Street thoroughfare linking 11th and 10th Streets to Blackford Street.

However heeding to the voices of preservationists and the residents, new, infill housing was built by BOS, the area Community Development Corporation on the east side of Paca Street. These houses were situated on larger lots, with a few custom designed homes.