Sentences with phrase «housing planning council»

«Co-living is extremely prevalent in the informal housing market in New York City,» says Sarah Watson, deputy director with the Citizen's Housing Planning Council, based in New York City.

Sarah Watson, Citizens Housing Planning Council executive director, concedes that the My Micro New York project hasn't been hailed as good public policy by all New Yorkers.

«To say zero or some diminimus number at this time is calamitous and all it's serving to achieve is to essentially derail projects that are almost all 100 % low income,» Jerilyn Perine, executive director of the Citizens Housing Planning Council, said in an interview on Thursday.

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He drew up his own plan to save the banks in 2009, and he was welcomed to the White House by then - National Economic Council director Larry Summers for a talk.

Amazon has suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle, pending the outcome of a City Council vote on a new tax on large employers that would fund programs aimed at providing affordable housing and helping the homeless.

«The most excited group out there are big CEOs, about our tax plan,» says ex-Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn, who runs the National Economic Council in the Trump White House, in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood.

«The president owns this plan; don't be mistaken,» said Gary Cohn, director of the White House National Economic Council.

On Wednesday, at a White House press briefing, National Economic Council Chair Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin unveiled the broad outlines of President Donald Trump's tax reform plan.

During the campaign, Mr. Navarro, now director of the White House National Trade Council, said that the administration's trade plans would allow it to eliminate trade deficit «within a year or two.»

Convincing a reluctant city council to pass an affordable housing plan.

White House Economic Council Director Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Wednesday laid out the administration's skeleton plan for tax cuts that was big on promises, but remarkably sparse on details, as President Donald Trump sprints to the Saturday finish line marking his first 100 days in office.

Councils identify and package together brownfield land that can be used for development into a housing zone, remove all unnecessary planning restrictions and partner with a developer to build new homes.

A report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers is the first official calculation of the tax framework's impact and its focus on cutting corporate rates underscores how central that effort is to the administration's overall plan.

In approving the Nitti subdivision, a planned development of 56 new homes to be built on the site of the former Elmhurst Hospital site on Berteau, Elmhurst city council members also approved substantial increases in impact fees that will add $ 10,100 to the cost of a house in the subdivision and generate $ 470,000 for Elmhurst schools and $ 95,000 for the Park District.

The plans mean new tenants will lose the right to live in a council house for life and instead local authorities will be able set a fixed term tenancy of between two and five years.

Crucially for the council, the deal committed both sides to the wider regeneration of the area through the development of a «North Tottenham Regeneration programme», including plans to build 1,650 new flats and houses, a library, a cinema, bars, shops and restaurants and a Sainsbury's supermarket.

Most local government functions are carried out by the London borough councils: they are responsible for education, housing, planning, highways, fire, social services, leisure and recreation, libraries, waste collection, waste disposal, and environmental health.

To me this has never made sense, ever since the abolition of Avon County Council, the idea of real strategic planning for transport, housing, jobs and growth has eluded us.

The Trump administration plans to withdraw its nomination of Kathleen Hartnett White, a climate change skeptic, to lead the Council on Environmental Quality, a White House official said.

And he would be appalled at how the current government is dismantling council housing, at least as we know it, with the Housing and Plannihousing, at least as we know it, with the Housing and PlanniHousing and Planning Act.

In New York City, the fate of de Blasio's rezoning plan, which includes an affordable housing mandate, is set to be decided this month by the City Council.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

United for Affordable NYC said it would begin disbanding in March, after the City Council voted on zoning plans the mayor viewed as integral to his affordable housing plan.

Destruction of thousands of houses during WW2 sparks major boom in council housing, shaped by New Towns Act 1946 and Town and Country Planning Act 1947

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

-LSB-...] 5/11/17: The Hotel Trades Council, a big supporter of the affordable housing plan (since their members need affordable housing) endorsed Bill de -LSB-...]

Social media lit up with activists enthusing about plans to nationalise rail and energy companies, abolish tuition fees and build 100,000 council houses each year.

it would begin disbanding in March, after the City Council voted on zoning plans the mayor viewed as integral to his affordable housing plan.

-- Johnson pitches $ 2 billion senior housing plan, by POLITICO's Conor Skelding: As many as 15,000 low - income seniors could trade their under - occupied apartments for new apartments nearby, under a new budget proposal rolled out Monday night by City Council Speaker Corey Johnson.

Cameron's plans would see statutory guidance issued to local councils demanding people live in the local area for two to five years before they are allowed on the waiting list for social housing.

The Conservatives announced plans — the extension of an existing programme — to boost the «right to buy» council house scheme introduced under Margaret Thatcher's government in the 1980s.

The Cabinet have also today gained approval for the rest of the Council's budget for 2018/19, a four year business plan, a 30 year Housing strategy, the establishment of a new publicly owned arms length company to build a 1000 new council Council's budget for 2018/19, a four year business plan, a 30 year Housing strategy, the establishment of a new publicly owned arms length company to build a 1000 new council council houses.

Negotiations between the de Blasio administration and the City Council over the mayor's controversial housing plans are intensifying, with both sides hoping to reach a deal by the end of next week.

The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, made this known when she briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the Council's meeting, which was presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo.

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The Sherman Plaza developers, Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust, need approval from the Council for the spot rezoning to include more affordable housing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninhousing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninHousing (MIH) rezoning plan.

«I need all of you to speak to every elected official in Albany and urge them to step up and to urge the governor of the state of New York and the state Legislature to work with the city government, to work with the mayor, to work with my office, to work with the City Council to provide more resources to come up with more innovative plans and proposals to address the crisis of affordable housing in the city of New York,» she added.

As a result, Labour councils, for example, waste valuable time preparing large scale council house building plans.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and council members were among the housing advocates, families, and New York City tenants who planned to sleep outside of the Murray Hill office building in hopes of spurring action from the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo and the Assembly.

To give just some examples, all regional planning and housing powers will be repatriated from unelected regional assemblies to democratically accountable local councils, communities will be able to develop neighbourhood plans and councils will have greater flexibility regarding housing allocations and tenancies.

The Bonn approach involved the council assembling all land ownerships, then preparing a masterplan, obtaining outline planning permission and using local contractors to create serviced plots ready for housing development.

David's missive asserted that Johnson had agreed that the city should kick in $ 400 million toward the MTA's emergency construction plan — against de Blasio's wishes — and that the state would withhold $ 200 million in funding from the Housing Authority until the mayor, council and tenant leaders picked a private contractor to undertake repairs.

There, at a Planned Parenthood rally, he railed against President Donald Trump and «extreme conservative zealots,» then met with City Council leaders about how he should intercede at the Housing Authority, a city agency.

Cortland Common Council meets tonight (Tuesday) to go over a proposal to require all new public housing be barrier free, and get an update on a plan to convert street lights to LEDs.

Community groups are asking the City Council to delay hearings set for next week on Mayor de Blasio's ambitious but controversial affordable housing plan.

CIVIC CENTER — Many elderly New Yorkers want the City Council to pass Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial rezoning plan as is because they «don't have time» to wait for a long bureaucratic process to play out amid a housing crisis for seniors.

The application, which was the first individual project proposed under Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial Mandatory Inclusionary Housing plan, appeared before the City Council's Land Use Committee Tuesday morning.

Mayor Bill de Blasio is taking a victory lap after the City Council gave the green light to his ambitious and controversial affordable housing plan.

INWOOD — An Uptown coalition composed of local organizations and community groups hosted a public hearing with City Council members to discuss the mayor's plan to rezone city neighborhoods to create and preserve affordable housing.

The City Council passed the mayor's mandatory inclusionary housing plan, strongly endorsing that principle.