Sentences with phrase «affordable housing component»

Last year, lawmakers and Cuomo essentially punted on the issue by giving the abatement a deadline for expiration amid extended talks over prevailing wages and expanding the measure to include more affordable housing components.

If approved, the plan would override the 80 - unit limit the village code imposes on similar projects — a concession village officials seem willing to make at least in part because of the affordable housing component.

They asked me to come in and work with the local community board in Fort Greene, and the local Council Member, to make sure there was an affordable housing component to that building.

We spoke to Council Member James about what happened to the affordable housing component of the 470 Vanderbilt project.

Earlier this month, Alma proposed making the affordable housing component roughly 20 percent, up from the 17 percent initially allotted.

Mayoral spokesperson Melissa Grace said the administration is still pushing the developers to start building the affordable housing component sooner than 2022.

Now the site's future and the affordable housing component remain uncertain, along with other plans for the area, and the company is staying tight - lipped.

An alternative plan, which would include two shorter buildings and would not need land use approval from the city, would be sold or rented at market rates and would not include an affordable housing component.

Each of the projects will feature an affordable housing component.

HPD didn't mention the supermarket in its June 2015 correspondence with the developer and left open the possibility of modifying the affordable housing component, Lander and other officials said in their letter.

Miller now has a consulting firm called Miller Strategies and is also the head of Signature Urban Properties, which is seeking to build 10 high - rise apartment buildings in the Bronx with an affordable housing component.

«I believe the report must include an affordable housing component in the policy,» said Poloncarz, who favors a certain percentage of apartment units being offered at lower rents.