Sentences with phrase «building new housing units»

«Building new housing units is one solution to the affordable housing needs of Canadians, but is not necessarily the best solution.

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When the new Parliament started in 2010, the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit recommended that almost 300,000 new houses should be built every year until 2031, totaling almost 6 million houses.
Housing experts are predicting existing home sales of 6 to 6.5 million units in 2018 and then above 1.3 million new homes being built per month to 2024.
A VA loan can be used to buy a detached house, condo, new - built home, manufactured home or duplex, triplex or four - unit property or to refinance an existing loan for those types of properties.
According to the latest survey compiled by Bell Federal Savings & Loan Association, 530 new housing units have been built this year in Tinley Park, a number exceeded in Chicago «s suburbs only by Carol Stream, Naperville, Buffalo Grove, Arlington Heights and Streamwood.
It would build over 2000 new affordable housing units, open new health care facilities create new parks and open new farmers markets.
Under the plan negotiated between the mayor and the Real Estate Board of New York, or REBNY, buildings with profitable luxury units would have a smaller share of affordable housing.
The government claims that these new proposals will increase house building and reduced council house waiting lists, by replacing each social unit sold.
I applaud the Mayor's far - reaching 10 - year plan to build and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units throughout our city, and the Church in all boroughs of New York City looks forward to continuing to work with NYC and Mayor de Blasio to help achieve this important affordable housing goal,» said His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York.
«This governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing and it's under his leadership that New York is implementing an unprecedented $ 20 billion anti-homelessness and housing problem, twice strengthened rent protections with Assembly Democrats and created a tenant protection unit that placed more than 6,000 buildings and 61,000 units back under rent stabilization,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.
The newest affordable housing complex in the city is now open for residents, as sponsor Regan Development Corp. completed its $ 17.3 million makeover of the former Buffalo Milk Co. building on the West Side into new residential units.
Some of Dinkins» accomplishments include creating the city's Economic Development Corporation, launching the «Safe City, Safe Streets» initiative, which many credit with putting New York City on the path toward its recent record crime lows and building many units of affordable housing.
The mayor has said his proposed changes will help him reach a goal of building 80,000 new units of affordable housing, and preserving another 120,000, over the next decade.
Mascuch said investors who will put up the money to build the new housing, and who are also part of the coalition, sid they need more than a one - year commitment, because it takes awhile to get the new units up and running.
The housing bonds, known in the industry as «bond cap» or «volume cap,» are responsible for a significant chunk of the affordable housing built in New York City — 17,000 of the roughly 40,000 units the city has created over the past two years.
Highlights in this year's capital budget include $ 500,000 to New Destiny Housing to build units for survivors of domestic violence and $ 750,000 for Second Farms Affordable Housing, a project focused on finding quality housing for the formerly homeless in partnership with Catholic ChaHousing to build units for survivors of domestic violence and $ 750,000 for Second Farms Affordable Housing, a project focused on finding quality housing for the formerly homeless in partnership with Catholic ChaHousing, a project focused on finding quality housing for the formerly homeless in partnership with Catholic Chahousing for the formerly homeless in partnership with Catholic Charities.
(May 1, 2017) New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) and the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) joined Housing Visions, elected and local leaders and development partners to dedicate Walnut Avenue Homes in the City of Niagara Falls, a 41 - unit development of seven new buildings and the adaptive re-use of another that is providing affordable housing for low - income households and the formerly homeleNew York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) and the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA) joined Housing Visions, elected and local leaders and development partners to dedicate Walnut Avenue Homes in the City of Niagara Falls, a 41 - unit development of seven new buildings and the adaptive re-use of another that is providing affordable housing for low - income households and the formerly hoHousing Visions, elected and local leaders and development partners to dedicate Walnut Avenue Homes in the City of Niagara Falls, a 41 - unit development of seven new buildings and the adaptive re-use of another that is providing affordable housing for low - income households and the formerly homelenew buildings and the adaptive re-use of another that is providing affordable housing for low - income households and the formerly hohousing for low - income households and the formerly homeless.
HCR is committed to collaborating with partners, and keeping homes affordable and communities strong by protecting one million rent - regulated units, managing a portfolio of more than 190,000 multifamily units and administering more than $ 1.5 billion each year to expand affordable housing opportunities and build strong communities throughout New York State.
He pointed to his support of adding more affordable housing to the controversial Rheingold Brewery site and a state tax break for Knickerbocker Commons, 217 Wyckoff Ave., a new affordable building with 24 units.
De Blasio has delivered on several of his big first term promises — expanding prekindergarten, raising the city's minimum wage, and building new affordable - housing units.
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) today announced a $ 3,520,000 award to Restoring Communities Housing Development Fund Corporation for the acquisition and rehabilitation of 94 units across four buildings in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has long criticized New York City's use of privately owned apartment buildings to house homeless families, and his administration has, in its first six months, taken steps to reduce the amount that the city pays for these units.
It also includes $ 125 million in credits to create and preserve affordable rental properties in New York State — which brought applause from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has an ambitious plan to build and maintain 200,000 units of below - market housing citywide.
But what I didn't mention was that Diaz has an alternative plan: moving the National Guard units, currently housed in the Armory's annex buildings, to Muller to make way for new schools.
Despite the loss of a key housing program, the administration of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce today that it built or preserved 21,963 units of housing in 2016 for poor and working - class New Yorkers, the most since 1989.
«We would not have build thousands and thousands of affordable units of housing in the city of New York if we didn't have the 421 - a program,» Klein said.
De Blasio is forming a task force to help build 1,500 units of affordable housing in order to combat the homelessness cries in New York City.
New York City is moving to have developers build at four sites, creating 10,000 units of affordable housing in the next decade.
The mayor said he sympathizes with residents» concerns about gentrification, development and displacement but echoed his longstanding argument that there are two options: either «do nothing» and watch rents increase and people get displaced or «do something» and at least create new affordable units when developers build luxury housing.
NEW YORK CITY — The mayor announced an ambitious affordable housing plan during his State of the City speech, complete with 80,000 new units by 2024 and six neighborhoods where developers will be required to build affordable uniNEW YORK CITY — The mayor announced an ambitious affordable housing plan during his State of the City speech, complete with 80,000 new units by 2024 and six neighborhoods where developers will be required to build affordable uninew units by 2024 and six neighborhoods where developers will be required to build affordable units.
The de Blasio administration's «Mandatory Inclusionary Housing» program would require some new construction to include permanently affordable housing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior hHousing» program would require some new construction to include permanently affordable housing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior hhousing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior housinghousing.
The Campaign 4 New York / New York Housing applauds Governor Cuomo and the NYS Legislature for making the commitment to build 6,000 new supportive housing units, the funding for which is included in appropriations of nearly $ 2 billion in the budget and subject to an MNew York / New York Housing applauds Governor Cuomo and the NYS Legislature for making the commitment to build 6,000 new supportive housing units, the funding for which is included in appropriations of nearly $ 2 billion in the budget and subject to an MNew York Housing applauds Governor Cuomo and the NYS Legislature for making the commitment to build 6,000 new supportive housing units, the funding for which is included in appropriations of nearly $ 2 billion in the budget and subject to Housing applauds Governor Cuomo and the NYS Legislature for making the commitment to build 6,000 new supportive housing units, the funding for which is included in appropriations of nearly $ 2 billion in the budget and subject to an Mnew supportive housing units, the funding for which is included in appropriations of nearly $ 2 billion in the budget and subject to housing units, the funding for which is included in appropriations of nearly $ 2 billion in the budget and subject to an MOU.
Groups Urge Governor & Mayor to Negotiate New Agreement That Builds 15,000 Units of New Supportive Housing, Sets Aside 15,000 Others in New Affordable Housing Developments / Existing Rentals.
In outlining numerous successes The Bronx has seen in recent years, Borough President Diaz noted considerable job growth and new attention from national and international media, as well as billions of dollars in new investment that has been leveraged to create jobs, improve infrastructure and build thousands of units of affordable housing.
Forum with elected officials on the City and State Agreement to build 35,000 New Units of Supportive Housing.
Corning - Arbor Housing and Development is pleased to announce that we have received $ 4.7 million to build a new 60 - unit building on the site of Meadowbrook Apartments in Corning, NY.
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) today announced approval of $ 3.2 million in awards and $ 49 million in insurance commitments to help build and preserve 756 affordable housing units, assist business development around the state, and create jobs.
HPD is tasked with fulfilling Mayor de Blasio's Housing New York: A Five - Borough Ten - Year Plan to build and preserve 200,000 affordable units for New Yorkers at the very lowest incomes to those in the middle class.
«Governor Cuomo, [Assembly] Speaker [Carl] Heastie and Leader Flanagan must sign the MOU and soon, because every month that passes without it means New York misses out on nearly 1,000 units of affordable and supportive housing that could be built.
«We can talk about building hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing units, but if we're losing the same housing units on the other side, then we have a zero - sum game,» said Mr. Stringer, recalling a report by his office that discovered the loss of 400,000 units renting for $ 1,000 or less over the past 12 years.
The mayor insisted again on the staggering scale and significance of his plan to build 80,000 new units of below - market housing and preserve 120,000 such apartments already in existence.
At 9 a.m., homeless New Yorkers and advocates for the homeless hold a press conference outside the governor's NYC office, calling on him to keep his promise to build 20,000 new supportive housing units, 633 Third Ave., ManhattNew Yorkers and advocates for the homeless hold a press conference outside the governor's NYC office, calling on him to keep his promise to build 20,000 new supportive housing units, 633 Third Ave., Manhattnew supportive housing units, 633 Third Ave., Manhattan.
In April, the city opted to kick out roughly 200 homeless New Yorkers from a two - building emergency shelter on the Upper West Side, freeing up at least 100 affordable housing units slated for low - income residents, as previously reported.
A coalition of housing advocates said that «while we were delighted when the governor used his State of the State speech to promise to build 20,000 new units of supportive housing, funding for the first 6,000 of those units is being held up by the failure of our elected leaders in Albany to sign a simple (agreement).
The project, which is geared to build 28 affordable housing units near New Castle's Metro - North Railroad stop, was the subject of staunch opposition from local officials who insisted the development be built in a different location.
The city is vacating roughly 200 homeless New Yorkers from a two - building emergency shelter on the Upper West Side, freeing up at least 100 affordable housing units slated for low - income residents, according to a report.
«I am thrilled to be providing $ 1.2 million from my capital funding budget towards the construction of 56 - unit - co-op project in Williamsbridge,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «Creating affordable housing units for our residents is a top priority for my administration, and it is with a great pleasure that I welcome Habitat for Humanity New York City back to The Bronx and support their efforts to build affordable homes for our families.»
Despite the mayor's homeless and housing plans, advocates have complained that the de Blasio administration has not done enough to build affordable units for the New Yorkers who need them the most.
Habitat for Humanity New York City and Almat Group Break Ground on Sydney House The 56 - unit development in Williamsbridge, Bronx will be first project financed under the City of New York's Open Door program the largest multi-family development ever built -LSB-...]
MIH would require new developments to include housing units that are permanently affordable, while ZQA would allow developers to increase the heights of buildings and reduce parking requirements to help encourage construction of affordable and senior housing.
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