Sentences with phrase «affordable housing construction»

Rodríguez said he had worked to identify locations for new affordable housing construction in Inwood and WashingtonHeights, and said he expected the new mayor to provide at least 10,000 units of affordable housing in those neighborhoods.

This $ 20,000,000 proposal will inject some much needed cash into projects that will focus on bringing the necessary infrastructure and laying the groundwork for affordable housing construction in several areas.

The new deal on tax cuts to incentivize affordable housing construction by downstate developers isn't called 421 - a, but rather «Affordable New York.»

The governor again echoed complaints from building trade unions that the mayor's plan would not obligate developers to pay prevailing wages to construction workers, wages Mr. de Blasio and the Real Estate Board of New York would be too expensive and would make large scale affordable housing construction unfeasible.

Speaking to reporters after an unrelated event in Manhattan, Mr. Cuomo expanded on remarks yesterday trashing the Mr. de Blasio proposal to alter the controversial tax credit to require greater affordable housing construction while simultaneously lengthening the abatement period from 25 to 35 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.

The governor's latest proposal to extend the 421 - a property tax break to spur affordable housing construction would cost the city $ 820 million more than it had planned over 10 years.

Though the City Council is still contemplating de Blasio's plan, Mark - Viverito said that progress needs to be made in the area of affordable housing construction.

These activities will support recent State initiatives to spur higher - performing affordable housing construction, for instance through the inclusion of a Passive House building track in New York State Homes and Community Renewal's Unified Funding Application.

«Our families spend more of their income on rent than those in East Harlem, Central Harlem, or Chinatown, those neighborhoods which each have reaped 20 percent or more of the new affordable housing construction,» according to the paper.

New York City mayor Bill de Blasio saw his relationship with Cuomo and legislators strained, but won much of the change he sought to 421 - a in order to incentivize affordable housing construction.

Oster said Cuomo talked about a variety of subjects, including a stalled deal between Cuomo and legislative leaders over the release of $ 2 billion in funds for affordable housing construction.

Mr. Levine argued that, on top of reducing pressure on the shelter system and on public hospitals, the city would be able to spend less on everything from extra educational attention to troubled homeless children in schools to new affordable housing construction to mental health services — and that landlords would be less likely to engage in abusive practices, causing the need for attorneys to taper off as the city phases the program in.

But that means the real estate market will go six months without the abatement, which will likely set back affordable housing construction, and thus make it harder for the mayor to hit his benchmarks for 2016.

For more than 15 years, Global Green's LEED - accredited staff has spearheaded applying green building technology to more than $ 20 billion in new schools and affordable housing construction, while advancing groundbreaking solar, green building, and energy efficiency legislation.

For more than 18 years, Global Green has greened nearly $ 20 billion in new school and affordable housing construction; authored multiple state and national laws and policies on green building, climate change and energy - efficiency; and responded to environmental disasters from hurricanes, to chemical weapons dumping, to sea level rise and the melting of the poles.