Sentences with phrase «affordable housing plan did»

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

«We have got to make sure in New York City that we now lead by example,» said Stringer, reiterating past attacks on de Blasio that his affordable housing plan does not reach deep enough into the lowest brackets of the poor, and that his administration has failed to properly utilize city - owned lots for housing.

Not exact matches

Mr. Cuomo also refused to say if he considered Mr. de Blasio's ambitious plan to create or maintain 200,000 units of affordable housing feasible, and said he did not know if he would speak at a planned rally of building trades workers in Albany next week.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas said, «The Joseph L. Allen Apartments are doing for Hamilton Hill what Governor Cuomo's aggressive plan is doing across the state — providing affordable and supportive housing so more New Yorkers can live independent lives in the communities they love.

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.

Governor Cuomo's sweeping affordable housing and homeless plans will allow HCR and our partners to do even more to preserve and create affordable housing opportunities across the state.

Perhaps the most headline - grabbing challenge of Ms. Glen's deputy mayorship, shepherding through the mayor's affordable housing plan, is done now that the plan has been approved.

The mayor didn't mention any of that Monday, focusing on his theme of reducing income inequality, giving unions credit for the passage of his affordable housing plan and paid sick leave.

On topic questions included whether the administration plans to increase low - income affordable housing production, what actions are required for the administration to count a unit of housing as «preserved», whether housing built with 421 (a) tax credits anywhere in the City should require affordable units, how the de Blasio administration counts housing underway at the end of the Bloomberg administration toward its goal, what was done in this housing complex to «preserve» these units, whether units counted as «preserved» are always on a 30 year agreement, the annual average of 20,000 units created or preserved as set forth in the mayor's ten year goal of 200,000 such units and how money was spent on the 17,000 units created or preserved in 2014.

«The Conservatives won't do this, so the next Labour government must, by hardwiring Labour's new affordable housing throughout the system, from housebuilding targets to investment priorities to planning rules.

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi did not comment on the protesters» legislative asks, but disputed their depiction of Cuomo's tenure, saying the governor has put forth «an aggressive» $ 20 billion, five - year affordable housing plan, worked to enhance rent laws and created a Tenant Protection Unit.

The recent Treasury plan to offer more long - term fixed mortgages as a means of improving access to affordable housing missed the basic point - we simply don't have enough houses.

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.

Neighbors blasted the plan, which is the first individual project to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial Mandatory Inclusionary Housing rezoning, saying the «affordable» income requirement didn't match with those in the area and that there was no environmental impact study to see what effect the building would have on neighboring Fort Tryon Park.

She said overcrowded schools and the lack of affordable housing in Manhattan is a direct result of the city not doing «comprehensive planning.»

Monserrate was leading the charge against City Hall's plan to sell 23 acres near Citi Field to developers for $ 1, saying it doesn't provide enough affordable housing.

Despite the mayor's homeless and housing plans, advocates have complained that the de Blasio administration has not done enough to build affordable units for the New Yorkers who need them the most.

They can build more affordable senior housing, as the city has already started to do under Mayor Bill de Blasio's housing plan.

And I would think he would want to be a partner in this and I don't have any reasonable explanation for you why he's standing in the way of a reform plan that would protect the taxpayers and create a lot more affordable housing.

Community boards across the city widely rejected de Blasio's plan, which is part of his strategy to create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing by 2024, because members disagreed with its citywide approach to rezoning and didn't think it was affordable enough for many New Yorkers.

Question topics included financial incentives given by the City to Altronix (which hosted the Mayor for a visit just before the press conference), whether the mayor has concerns about offering such incentives, whether his jobs task force will work with local communities, whether his affordable housing plan conflicts with his plan to enable more manufacturing in the city, what a base livable minimum wage is, whether the mayor is concerned about the possibility that Republicans may control the U.S. Senate next year, whether NY State has done enough to assist NYC in obtaining hazard mitigation money from the federal government, the Mayor's views on items sold at the September 11th Museum gift shop and what the first «tangible» product of the task force will be.

We tried to do that with things like the affordable housing plan, the rent freezes, the efforts to give people lawyers to stop eviction, pre-k, after school, paid sick leave.

City Councilman Brad Lander, Public Advocate Letitia James, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, State Senator Velmanette Montgomery and other officials say they're «deeply concerned» that developer Avery Hall Investment's plans for the property «do not meet the community's need for a large, affordable supermarket and sufficient affordable housing for our diverse community.»

We did the math and we realized after reading the report on housing and his ten - year plan that this is not truly an affordable housing plan.

Following Hurricane Irma, a Coconut Grove homeowner started looking for a way to protect her home from future storms and flooding and found inspiration in affordable houses built on stilts in Louisiana, but many counties in Florida — with the possible exception of Monroe — don't plan to use post-hurricane Federal Emergency Management Agency money on single - family home elevations.