Not exact matches
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.
Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to finance nonprofits that would buy private
apartments set aside for homeless New Yorkers
under the city's controversial cluster - site program and convert them into
affordable housing.
New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance (OTDA), and Southern Tier Environments for Living (STEL) joined local partners to dedicate Evergreen Lofts, an
under - utilized industrial building in Buffalo that now has 56 energy - efficient
affordable apartments in an LGBTQ - friendly setting and supportive housing for formerly homeless persons with chronic medical conditions.
In the long term, 6,492
apartments, both
affordable and market rate, are expected to be built
under the new rules.
The project would include 2,500
apartments, with 875 set aside for low - to middle - income tenants, though the
affordable units weren't required
under the deal reached with the previous administration.
In terms of forgiven taxes, the de Blasio administration estimates that its proposal would cut the subsidy per unit to less than $ 400,000, from nearly $ 600,000, and double the number of
affordable apartments created
under the program to 25,000, from 12,400, over the coming decade.
Under the new plan, developers would have to set a quarter of the units aside for
affordable apartments in return for city approval for a rezoning.
The developers qualified for the rezoning in exchange for
affordable apartments,
under a de Blasio - championed policy called Mandatory Inclusionary Housing.
Even if funds were available, neighbors Monday complained the
apartments still may not be
affordable to public housing residents
under Higgins» plan.
FRM was among the first companies to manage privately owned
apartment developments
under the National Housing Act of 1961 and pioneered the concept of providing resident services programs at its
affordable properties in 1975.
Construction of Penelope 60
Apartments, a three - story, 50 - unit
affordable apartment building for low - income seniors is
under way in Mishawaka, Ind..
Walters has several South Jersey communities
under construction, including luxury single - family, multi-family developments, and
affordable apartment projects.
Under that increase, badly needed
apartment buildings with units
affordable to moderate - income households could, for the first time in years, be built in high - cost areas such as Boston and parts of the San Francisco Bay area.