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.
Not exact matches
«We've been building a lot of
affordable housing, before the settlement,
during and we have
plans to after.
During a press conference on Dec. 27, while announcing that the county had met the terms of its settlement with HUD to build 750 units of
affordable housing before 2017, Astorino commented on Johnson's
plans to run for governor as a Democrat.
He cited
affordable housing as the most common concern raised
during discussions with Northern Manhattan voters, especially as the proposed Sherman Plaza development
plan dominated headlines in early August.
He also pointed to the 14 rezonings that have taken place in different parts of the Bronx
during his six year tenure, which he argued had allowed for the construction of new
affordable housing for people making both less and more than the range of incomes prescribed in the mayor's
plan.
De Blasio's campaign responded with a typical comment harping on the mayor's universal prekindergarten initiative, his executive orders hiking pay floors for public employees and city contract workers, his
affordable housing plan and the continued downward trajectory of the crime rate
during his tenure.
Mr. de Blasio has put the total capital cost of the
housing plan at $ 41 billion, almost twice as much as was spent on
affordable housing during the Bloomberg administration.