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Housing Development

What is Housing Development?

Housing Development brings a range of community improvement efforts focusing on the area’s housing needs. Projects include the renovation of older homes and new construction developments, assisting homeowners with renovations and helping those trying to stay in their homes. We focus on reducing housing costs, promoting employment, and new business development.

Our latest project is the Fresh Start Apartments in the City of Newburgh. Utilizing a parcel of land RECAP owns, we have received an ESSHI award to construct an 11 unit building which will focus on housing those seeking permanent housing and transitioning from homelessness or temporary housing who may be struggling with substance use disorder and IPV. 

Helping to REstore Communities

RECAP’S housing development history began in 1983.  To date RECAP has developed and owns 131 units of housing in 20 buildings across Orange County.  In addition, RECAP is management agent for 8 units of housing and is the development sponsor for 42 units of housing.   In Newburgh, RECAP currently owns and manages 25 units of housing across 6 buildings.

The following is a list and breakdown of the developments RECAP has completed:

  • 9 Hasbrouck Street, City of Newburgh
  • 11 Hasbrouck Street, City of Newburgh
  • 169 Renwick Street, City of Newburgh
  • 179 Renwick Street, City of Newburgh
  • 181 Renwick Street, City of Newburgh
  • 127 Hickory Hill Road, Town of Newburgh
  • 119 E. Main Street, Middletown,
  • 208 North Street, Middletown,
  • 45 Beacon Street, Middletown,
  • 7 Bonnell Street, Middletown,
  • 5 Fairlawn Avenue, Middletown,
  • 34 Mill Street, Middletown
  • 18 Genung Street, Middletown,
  • 46 Hanford Street, Middletown,
  • 20 Lake Avenue, Middletown,
  • 133 Linden Avenue, Middletown,
  • 36 Smith Street, Middletown,
  • 9 Wickham Avenue, Middletown,
  • 11 Wickham Avenue, Middletown,
  • 168 Wickham Avenue, Middletown,
  • 189 Ball Street, Port Jervis
  • 116 Carson Ave, Newburgh

Program Management

Nick Guertin

Senior Director of Housing Development

Nick 

Nick is a practitioner that has worked in community development, affordable housing design, and city planning. He was previously the Chief Design and Construction Executive for Coalfield Development in southern West Virginia, a City Planner for the New York City Department of City Planning and worked with several architecture firms in and around Boston, Massachusetts. 

Nick has also volunteered in a number of capacities throughout his career. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Newburgh Tools, a non-profit community organization building an affordable tool lending facility and community resource hub in Newburgh’s historic core. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Association for Community Design-a national nonprofit membership network dedicated to design practice which dismantles systemic injustice. He has previously served as a volunteer with the City of Beacon, New York on the Fishkill Avenue Concepts Committee; and as a Senior Policy Fello with DesegregateCT (now Pro-Homes Connecticut, a program of Regional Plan Association).

Nick is a graduate of Northeastern University in Boston, MA-where he earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Architecture. He was an Enterprise Community Partners Rose Architecture Fellow from 2019-2021, and a 2024 MacDowell Fellow in Architecture.

In his free time, Nick can be found reading or hiking with his wife throughout the Hudson Valley.

about Linda Muller

Linda S. Muller served as President & Chief Executive Officer of Cornerstone Family Healthcare for 31 years, transforming it from a single-site clinic to a multi-county health system before retiring in 2022.

Career and Leadership at Cornerstone

Linda Muller joined Cornerstone Family Healthcare in July 1991, when the organization had just one site in Newburgh serving about 5,000 patients. Over three decades, she expanded Cornerstone to 24–25 locations across Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster, Dutchess, Westchester, and Broome counties, serving over 52,000–55,000 patients.

Her leadership was marked by strategic growth, community engagement, and a strong focus on patient care. Muller was known for her dedication to the organization’s mission and for mentoring staff, as noted by colleagues who described her as a mentor and a “match made in heaven” for those in community health.

Her tenure included significant expansion, infrastructure development (notably the 147 Lake Street building in Newburgh, which she described as the “foundation for everything we have built so far”), and strengthening the organization’s mission to provide accessible, high‑quality healthcare

Muller is a 1976 graduate of the University at Buffalo with a B.A. in speech pathology (minor in audiology and communication) She later earned an M.S. in Health Policy and Administration from The New School, where she also taught for six years. She lives in Cornwall with her husband Charles Muller.

Colleagues have praised her trailblazing leadership, noting her dedication to community health and her role in building a sustainable, patient‑centered healthcare system.