Sentences with phrase «adding affordable housing units»

De Blasio has worked effectively with developers to continue construction at a robust pace while adding affordable housing units.

Hizzoner said he will urge state lawmakers to bring back the tax break that aims to encourage developers to add affordable housing units.

Not exact matches

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.

«Tonight's vote sends a clear message that the City of New York is determined to provide relief for its residents, unlike Gov. Cuomo and Albany who recently enacted detrimental rent laws that could eliminate about 90,000 affordable housing units due to deregulation over the next four years — units that do not just provide an affordable price point for tenants but offer protections against arbitrary evictions as well,» he added.

One of the De Blasio administration's core initiatives is its Housing New York plan, created in 2014 with the goal of adding or preserving 200,000 affordable units for New Yorkers by 2022.

The plan would also aid Mayor de Blasio's goal to add or hold on to 200,000 units of affordable housing, Adams told the New York Daily News.

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.

He also claimed that his program would've added 25,500 affordable housing units over 10 years, whereas the governor's will only add 21,750.

The latest budget added $ 1.9 billion to increase the mayor's affordable housing goals from building or preserving 40,000 units over the next 10 years to 50,000 units.

The developers behind the Bronx Commons, a 305 - unit affordable - housing project slated for the South Bronx, have a different idea in mind: They are adding a concert hall to the mix.

East New York is the first of 15 neighborhoods that the de Blasio administration plans to rezone to reach his goal of adding or preserving 200,000 affordable housing units in 10 years.

Under the plan, the city would use public financing to help nonprofits buy roughly a third of the apartments currently used for the homeless, and then convert the apartments into affordable units, helping the mayor fulfill two goals: lowering homelessness and adding to the city's affordable housing stock.

We have to see the specifics about timelines and how it's going to play out, but look, it can only be for the good of New York City if the state is making an additional commitment to New York City on affordable housing on top of the 200,000 units we're already committed to,» he added.

«This bill will have a chilling effect on unscrupulous landlords renting out affordable housing units as illegal hotels,» Johnson added.

He delivered on both, settling a constitutional lawsuit over the policing practice and adding close to 80,000 affordable housing units — something he has vowed to continue in a second term.

The report found that in recent years similar wage requirements had added $ 45,000 per unit to the cost of building affordable housing.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has said he intends to add or preserve 200,000 housing units affordable to poor and working - class New Yorkers over the next decade.

The city added some 3,000 housing units last year, only 500 of which were judged affordable for low - and middle - income families.

That will add up to about 29,000 more units of affordable housing over the next 10 years.

«Thirty - five per cent (of the units) have to be affordable housing,» he said, adding that these are spread throughout the complex.