Sentences with phrase «affordable housing plan»

Indeed, the effect of the mayor's affordable housing plan on the city's real estate market has thus far been subtle.

The governor apparently wants the bonds for his own affordable housing plan.

«We want him to create a permanent affordable housing plan based on the average income brackets in our neighborhoods,» she added.

«From Pre-K for All to paid family and sick leave to the most ambitious affordable housing plan in the city's history, we are working to provide opportunities that will make a lasting difference in the lives of New Yorkers,» de Blasio said in a statement.

The building is a small part of what Mayor Bill de Blasio has called the most ambitious affordable housing plan in the city's history.

But with many of the nation's cities facing what Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro calls an affordable housing crisis, the strategy is weaving its way into a growing number of affordable housing plans.

This deal is a part of the mayor's 10 - year affordable housing plan for the city to subsidize hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious 10 - year affordable housing plan depends heavily on the success of mandatory inclusionary zoning (Photo: Getty Images).

On Friday, de Blasio announced a plan to increase the city's affordable housing plan by spending $ 1.9 billion to add 10,000 apartments affordable to those making $ 40,000 or less, 5,000 of which will be reserved for senior citizens and 500 to be reserved for veterans.

Local lawmakers overwhelmingly approved the mayor's controversial affordable housing plan on Tuesday, but the vote occurred in dramatic fashion.

In a statement, the de Blasio campaign said, «Bill de Blasio has put forward the most comprehensive affordable housing plan of any candidate for Mayor — one that will create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing and require developers to build more permanent affordable units.

The tenants» decision to oppose de Blasio's sweeping affordable housing plan didn't come easily or quickly, they say.

Land Use Committee chair Councilman David Greenfield called the plan a «unicorn deal,» adding that it is the «best community affordable housing plan ever in the history of New York.»

HOUSING With New York's record high homeless population hitting 60,000, the city will need help from the federal government to make a dent even with the ambitious affordable housing plan from the de Blasio administration, experts said.

KEW GARDENS — Twelve of Queens» 14 community boards soundly rejected Mayor Bill de Blasio's signature affordable housing plan during a meeting Monday night, citing deal - breaking concerns about parking and overdevelopment.

Stringer also criticized the administration's failure to use the newly passed affordable housing plan to help approve developments in city neighborhoods — a handful of proposed developments in Inwood and in Sunnyside, Queens have fallen apart amid community and City Council opposition.

A major component of the plan, he said, is to make sure people can afford the city — with «the biggest affordable housing plan anywhere in the country,» the strongest laws to require affordable housing, and free lawyers to anyone faced with eviction.»

«This will be the strongest and most progressive affordable housing plan anywhere in the country, any major city in the country,» de Blasio said on AM 710.

«Of course we have the largest affordable housing plan in the history of New York City, and the fastest and most ambitious one.

Real Affordability for All, the lead group attacking NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan as insufficiently affordable, has alienated some of its members, some of whom have quietly dropped out of the coalition.

NEW YORK CITY — The mayor announced an ambitious affordable housing plan during his State of the City speech, complete with 80,000 new units by 2024 and six neighborhoods where developers will be required to build affordable units.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious 10 - year affordable housing plan depends heavily on the success of mandatory inclusionary zoning (Photo: John Moore for Getty Images).

NYCC and nine other housing groups held an event at City Hall on Monday in which they called on de Blasio to fire his Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Housing, Alicia Glen, whom they described as an «obstacle» to a truly affordable housing plan.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious 10 - year, $ 41 billion affordable housing plan calls for new planning initiatives and zoning changes that will help bring the 200,000 affordable housing units to fruition.

«There's no current affordable housing plan for the city,» says Rachel Kutler, a community organizer who's helped lead fair housing campaigns in Baltimore for United Workers.

One of the core architects of Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan announced her intention to step down from city government today — making her the third top city administrator do so since December.

It is the largest, fastest affordable housing plan ever attempted at a local level,» he added, promising to «change the face of this city forever.»

The city issued a request for proposals Wednesday for the controversial senior affordable housing plan.

Aides to Quinn acknowledged the similarities to the previous affordable housing plans and that the idea had come from the city's real estate industry, which has been the source of some of Quinn's biggest campaign donations.

De Blasio held back when Cuomo released a statement throwing cold water on the mayor's Sunnyside Yards affordable housing plan and efforts to raise the minimum wage shortly after the mayor touted both plans in his State of the City address.

The man who cleaned up Times Square is now one of the chief architects of Mr. de Blasio's far - reaching affordable housing plan.

De Blasio's affordable housing plan allocates fewer units for the poorest households in the city than his predecessor, Mike Bloomberg's did, according to a new study — frustrating advocates who say they supported him because he promised to help the neediest.

CLINTON HILL — As part of his expanded affordable housing plan, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that the city is setting aside $ 250 million for one purpose: persuading Mitchell - Lama complexes to stay affordable, at least for another 20 years.

South Jersey Town's Novel Solution to Its Affordable Housing Mandate: Build It Near the Mall Moorestown's affordable housing plan envisions construction of mixed - income apartments at three retail sites, including the Moorestown Mall.

CITY HALL — Groups protesting Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan say they will perform acts of civil disobedience if changes aren't made to make the proposal helpful to more low income New Yorkers.

And it is one of the strongest affordable housing plans in the nation,» said City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

While negotiations around a new state - level program to incentivize affordable housing production continue and Gov. Andrew Cuomo has promised to soon flesh out general affordable housing plans he announced during his recent State of the State speech, city - level changes being sought by de Blasio are on the move.

Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said that she was an intern in college in the administration of the late former Mayor Ed Koch 30 years ago and thus had the opportunity to work on his landmark affordable housing plan that is said to be his biggest achievement — a plan she also worked on under the administrations of former Mayors David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani.

The 115 - page affordable housing plan released by the de Blasio administration yesterday left many questions unanswered, and aides to the mayor conceded many of their ideas need to be extensively studied before they can be enacted.

NYC mayor wants to raise taxes on city's vacant land to fund affordable housing Mayor Bill de Blasio's latest affordable housing plan aims to raise taxes on vacant land and «incentivize owners to make their sites productive.»

So question workers and advocates who are questioning just how «affordable» Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan really is.

Even with key capital investments, including the Mayor's new affordable housing plan, debt service will remain under 15 percent of tax revenues.

De Blasio's affordable housing plans actually call for preserving more units — 120,000 — than it creates, so tenant - in - place renovations like this one may become more common.

De Blasio said that since June, the city has been waiting on the state «to give us a clear affordable housing plan» but that it passed a «nebulous plan with no facts.»

His highly - touted affordable housing plan has focused on production rather than preservation, produced units that will not be affordable for too many low and moderate - income New Yorkers, and will unleash the forces of gentrification and displacement in marginal neighborhoods which will see an influx of market - rate housing.

In a pair of press conferences Mayor Bill de Blasio today unveiled his aggressive affordable housing plan, aiming to create and preserve 200,000 units of housing over 10 years.

A spokeswoman for Mr. de Blasio said that in his discussions in late 2014 about shelter openings, he was pushing for a «comprehensive vision» that took account of his long - term affordable housing plan.

Community Board 3 unanimously approved the SPURA affordable housing plan after community outcry.

Real Affordability for All issued a report Wednesday saying that de Blasio's affordable housing plan builds approximately the same percentage of units for families making 30 percent of the area median income or AMI, than the housing proposal of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg.