Sentences with phrase «more affordable housing units»

The Alberta Real Estate Association says it supports a plan announced by Rachel Notley's government to work with cities and municipalities across Alberta to ensure more affordable housing units are built.

When it inured to their benefit, such as applying for a multi-family property tax exemption that was created to help generate more affordable housing units — they would use the number of bedrooms in a building.

The Related Companies» West Side Rail Yards complex is going to need more affordable housing units if its $ 15 billion plan is to gain City Council approval, Speaker Christine Quinn said at a hearing on zoning changes for the site yesterday.

More affordable housing units were created in 2015 than in any year since the city's housing department began.

A waterfront - altering redevelopment of the Domino Sugar refinery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is poised to be approved by the city this week after the de Blasio administration struck a deal Monday to include more affordable housing units in the project.

The proposal from Hudson Companies included a larger library, more affordable housing units and an earlier construction timeline than other bidders» proposals, according to the mayor's office.

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The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building or preserving more than 100,000 units of affordable housing — enough to house every resident in the City of Buffalo.

To date, the agency has developed 15 affordable housing programs across the country — with more than 950 units — which are home to underserved populations including veterans, survivors of domestic violence, people living with HIV, and the formerly homeless.

Other initiatives discussed from the Dec. 14th agenda included Brad Hoylman speaking about the negotiations in the NYS Senate regarding the IDC; Laurie Hardjowirigo gave the Voter Reform Committee Report; Nat Johnson gave the Environmental Committee Report by stressing what was learned at the December 4 Future of Renewable Energy Forum; Erik Coler of Affordable Housing recapped the year's achievements by saying this year 42 units had been re-stabilized and he was hoping next year to add 90 more.

The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building and preserving more than 100,000 units of affordable housing and 6,000 of supportive housing.

Under de Blasio, New York City is financing affordable housing at a breakneck pace, creating or preserving over 24,500 units last year — more than any year on record — spending $ 1.1 billion, the most ever by the city in a single year, according to City Hall officials.

Mr. de Blasio, in pursuit of his goal to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing in a decade, wanted Albany to renew the tax credit but require all developers getting it to build affordable housing, no matter where their development was, and also wanted the program to include a mansion tax on sales of residences worth $ 1.75 million or more.

She applauded the mayor's two years of rent freezes for tenants in regulated apartments and his recent update to his plan to create or preserve 200,000 affordable housing units by 2024 to cover more low - income individuals, but wants the city to go farther.

Based on his affordable housing credentials and his apparent commitment to getting more low and middle income units built in central Brooklyn, Mr. Williams won the endorsement of the Working Families Party, which will presumably wage an intensive street effort to get their man into office.

In 2014, HCR set an agency record by financing the creation or preservation of 9,363 affordable housing units, including affordable homeownership opportunities for more than one thousand families.

Alcántara said that if voted into Albany, she would push for more housing developments featuring 100 percent affordable units to help low - income residents.

«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.

Last month, Cuomo launched a $ 20 billion, five - year plan to combat homelessness and advance the construction of affordable housing in New York State — supported by the release of $ 2.5 billion in capital funding delivered in the fiscal year 2018 budget, which he said will establish and preserve more than 110,000 units of affordable and 6,000 units of supportive housing over the next five years.

Any condo or co-op unit valued at more than $ 1.75 million would be subject to a new city «mansion tax,» the revenues of which would be dedicated to further affordable housing construction and preservation.

Since then, its work has expanded to 14 cities in upstate New York and Pennsylvania where more than 1,400 units of affordable housing and over $ 300 million in community investment have improved countless lives and neighborhoods.

Critics today, including members of the de Blasio administration and some developers, say that the current program often stimulates luxury housing more than affordable units.

In a statement, the de Blasio campaign said, «Bill de Blasio has put forward the most comprehensive affordable housing plan of any candidate for Mayor — one that will create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing and require developers to build more permanent affordable units.

Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. announced today that his office has allocated more than $ 7 million in capital funds for 10 housing developments across The Bronx, creating more than 1,500 new affordable units in neighborhoods across the borough.

In an effort to create more affordable housing options in Southold Town, the Town Board passed a local law last Tuesday that would permit up to six «moderate income» rental units near village centers.

The prior two rounds created more than 600 units of affordable housing on 81 lots, according to HPD.

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.

Sanders also called on local governments to «demand more» from developers who receive government subsidies, saying affordable housing units should not return to market value rents after 10 to 20 years as is often done.

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.

The governor proposed several initiatives that brought his platform further left towards liberal issues that de Blasio has been championing — such as increasing the minimum wage to $ 15 per hour, mandating 12 weeks of paid family leave and offering up $ 20 billion over the next five years to address homelessness by providing 20,000 more supportive housing beds and 100,000 units of affordable housing.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

Also at 10 a.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams unveils more than $ 2 million in Fiscal Year 2016 funds to construct and preserve hundreds of affordable housing units across Brooklyn, Calvary Community Church, 1575 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn.

Councilwoman Metzger said, «I would like to see consideration for some percentage of the units to be more affordable, or senior citizen housing,» but the Fakirises refused to commit to such a provision, saying that they set high standards for their tenants» creditworthiness and references.

Southold Town's Housing Advisory Commission has been thinking of ways to spend more than $ 400,000 the town has earmarked for affordable housing, but is «holding out» in case it's needed for a larger rental unit development, according to commission chair Rona Smith and government liaison officer Denis NonHousing Advisory Commission has been thinking of ways to spend more than $ 400,000 the town has earmarked for affordable housing, but is «holding out» in case it's needed for a larger rental unit development, according to commission chair Rona Smith and government liaison officer Denis Nonhousing, but is «holding out» in case it's needed for a larger rental unit development, according to commission chair Rona Smith and government liaison officer Denis Noncarrow.

Separately, on de Blasio's citywide zoning changes before the council to mandate below - market - rate housing, she said that she «definitely» expects to see tweaks, such as units that are more affordable to those with lower incomes.

To date, the biggest real estate battle Astorino has picked is with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, refusing to use $ 5.2 million the agency allocated to help him fulfill a federal mandate to build 750 affordable units in more affluent Westchester areas by 2016.

More about his affordable housing plan: Mayor Bill de Blasio promised 200,000 affordable housing apartments, including 50,000 units for New Yorkers earning less than $ 40,000.

You must earn more than $ 71,000 a year to apply for these 59 new units soon to be up for grabs on the city's affordable housing lottery.

Quinn also presided over the council's approval of Bloomberg's Willets Point redevelopment in exchange for more affordable housing — delivering a higher percentage of affordable units than initially planned, though far less than opponents sought.

The denial of the county's AI comes despite its success in clearing a hurdle of developing more than the 750 units of affordable housing required in its HUD settlement by the end of 2016.

I thought there were good ideas,» said Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, who applauded Quinn's focus on early education and the need for more and higher - quality affordable housing units.

He also recommended that the building have more permanent affordable housing — beyond the 166 units of affordable apartments included in the current plan — and suggested some units be set aside for formerly homeless families.

The mayor has declared the plan on time and within budget and earlier this year he also announced an additional $ 1.9 billion investment to create 10,000 more affordable housing for low - income earners, including 5,000 more dedicated senior housing units, for a total of 15,000 senior units under the plan.

Quinn also said that WIN is «very grateful to Governor Cuomo» — her return to public service after her failed bid for mayor was as an advisor to Cuomo and she serves on a state homelessness task force — and she praised him for finally giving his OK to release $ 2 billion in funding for the creation of more than 100,000 affordable and supportive housing units in the state over the next five years.

The state will also have a goal of making 500,000 new homes more energy efficient, including state - owned affordable housing units.

The governor on Monday also called on the state legislative leaders to sign a memorandum of understanding to release more of the $ 2 billion the parties set aside last year to create 100,000 units of affordable and supportive housing across the state, which would significantly benefit New York City, where de Blasio has been struggling to bring a homelessness crisis under control.

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And Gov. Andrew Cuomo has also directed the New York State Division of Budget to implement a memorandum of understanding that would release $ 2 billion in funding to support the creation of more than 100,000 affordable and supportive housing units in the sate over the next five years.

He reintroduced an idea that he proposed in February of this year — to use some of the land on the more than 1,100 vacant lots the city already owns to build affordable housing, creating a land bank and land trust that would partner with nonprofit affordable housing developers to build what Stringer has estimated could amount to 57,000 units of affordable housing citywide.

The rejection of Sherman Plaza is viewed as a blow to Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) vision for creating more affordable units citywide.