Projects under the mayor's housing policy have proved contentious in several neighborhoods across the city.
Not exact matches
City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez is opposing a private
project under the rules established by the
mayor's housing plan.
The
mayor said the Real Estate Board of New York — which represents developers — and the Building and Construction Trades Council, which represents builder unions — still have plenty of time to agree on wage requirements for
projects built
under 421a.
The
mayor cheered several significant
projects that are planned or
under way, including redevelopment of the Inner Harbor and Kennedy Square, construction of the Connective Corridor and the Pike Block, and the recent completion of the Creekwalk.
In New York City, the funding is used almost entirely for housing
projects, and
under a
mayor who has promised to vastly expand the city's affordable housing stock by creating and preserving 200,000 units over a decade, that pattern was not going to change.