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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.

A Specific Affordable Housing Plan A large group of churchgoers, NYCHA residents, senior citizens, and advocates recently rallied near City Hall to push for an affordable housing plan from the Metro - IAF coalition led by two Brooklyn pastors and affordable housing builders.

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With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Chicago's ambitious plans for a 2016 Olympics bid, which have raised hopes for everything from affordable housing to a South Side stadium to a whitewater paddling course in Lincoln Park, are making ripples along the city's lakefront.

De Blasio's plan to reshape neighborhoods is facing widespread opposition from community leaders and elected officials, setting up a battle for his administration as it seeks to build more affordable housing citywide.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The House of Representatives voted Tuesday to expand restrictions on abortion, prohibiting individuals and small businesses from claiming federal tax credits through the Affordable Care Act if their health plan includes abortion coverage.

Local apartment rents increased, the eviction rate was a bit higher than the state average and about 14 percent of Manchester's housing was labeled affordable last year, according to a recent report from the town planning department.

«The plan announced today is an important milestone on the road to a more just and equitable city, where New Yorkers in every neighborhood will benefit from the opportunities that affordable housing creates.

The 115 - page plan, which was created through coordination with 13 agencies and with input from more than 200 individual stakeholders, outlines more than 50 initiatives that will accelerate affordable construction, protect tenants, and deliver more value from affordable housing investments, including:

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.

The Sherman Plaza developers, Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust, need approval from the Council for the spot rezoning to include more affordable housing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninhousing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninHousing (MIH) rezoning plan.

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.

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighboHousing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighbohousing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

In his State of the City address, the mayor made it clear his focus this year will be on his affordable housing plan — which will require plenty of help from Albany, where rent laws are set to expire later this year.

«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.

Medina and Dilan sat down with DNAinfo New York to talk about their plans, from affordable housing and education to transit and local jobs.

Despite deep resistance from the neighborhood and elected officials, the de Blasio administration has thrown its support behind the developer's rezoning plan in hopes of bringing more affordable housing to the city, a key part of the mayor's agenda.

It also includes $ 125 million in credits to create and preserve affordable rental properties in New York State — which brought applause from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has an ambitious plan to build and maintain 200,000 units of below - market housing citywide.

Cumbo then went to the mayor's side of City Hall and demanded that de Blasio put the squeeze on the Speaker to get rid of Ede Fox, or else she would oppose the controversial Bedford - Union Armory affordable housing plan, which is already under attack from local politicians.

House Speaker Paul Ryan said a measure stripping funds from Planned Parenthood would be included in the bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act — a move that could turn off moderate Republicans, complicating the fragile coalition that the party must maintain in order to undo the massive health care law.

The House of Representatives voted to expand restrictions on abortion, prohibiting individuals and small businesses from claiming federal tax credits through the Affordable Care Act if their health plan includes abortion coverage.

The mayor touted the number of affordable apartment units - 20,325 - as a one - year record, and far from anything seen in the city since Mayor Ed Koch's ambitious housing plans of the «80s.

The Council was poised to approve the mayor's plans, which have come under fire from community boards, preservationist groups and affordable housing advocates, when a group of protesters interrupted the vote.

She says she also sees the plans to be passed by the City Council as a starting point and that she's received commitments from the mayor that agencies such as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development would invest «additional resources» to make projects more affordable.

(Creating more housing for low - income New Yorkers, a move that was announced in yesterday's plan and differs from Bloomberg - era policies that focused heavily on middle - income affordable housing, should provide another bulwark against homelessness going forward.)

The two men have publicly clashed on everything from the minimum wage, to the use of Sunnyside rail yards in Queens for affordable housing and the mayor's plans for universal pre-K.

Also at 11 a.m., the de Blasio administration releases the Housing New York 2.0 plan, laying out new tools and programs to build and preserve affordable homes for 300,000 New York families, up from the previously announced goal of 200,000 homes, 1561 Walton Ave., the Bronx.

RM: Successive chancellors have tried to give a boost to housebuilding but Hammond has had a very positive reception from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, who say this plan means he has listened to calls for more housing for rent and affordable homes to buy.

Casting aside objections from Gov. Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio is plowing ahead with a plan to redevelop the Sunnyside rail yards in Queens as an affordable - housing mecca.

Still, de Blasio has managed to garner the support from many within the real estate community, who have expressed support for the new administration's affordable - housing plan.

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.

The plan, announced Sunday by Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito, is an expansion of an earlier effort to keep tenants in their homes and to keep them from becoming part of the city's affordable housing crisis.

The plan, which ultimately earned support from all of the area's elected officials, still failed to satisfy some housing advocates who believed any development there should include at least 70 percent affordable housing.

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.

Mayor de Blasio is moving ahead with a plan to redevelop the Sunnyside rail yards in Queens into affordable - housing, despite objections from Governor Cuomo.

«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.

One of the pivotal moments on the topic was when Albanese was attempting to outline his affordable housing plan under questioning from Lehrer of WNYC, who pointed out Albanese was only attacking the mayor's plan without offering his own specifics.

One questioner asked whether a pending affordable - housing plan in East New York would push low - income residents from the Brooklyn neighborhood.

BROOKLYN — The city's plan to rezone East New York in an effort to bring thousands of affordable units to the neighborhood is «not the trigger for displacement» but is instead aimed at preventing locals from leaving, according to the head of the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

PARK SLOPE — Heeding the call of hundreds of angry Park Slopers, Brooklyn elected officials are asking for strong support from the mayor's office to make sure a «large, affordable» supermarket and «deeply affordable» housing are included in the mixed - used development planned for the Key Food site at 120 Fifth Ave.

Liberal activists from organizations like New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York shouted «slow it down» at Mr. de Blasio as he entered City Hall this morning, calling for him to pump the brakes on his plan to rezone 15 neighborhoods across the city to allow for more building density and, in turn, more affordable housing.

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.

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I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

While known mainly for its pioneering approach to transportation planning, Curitiba has also developed dozens of creative programs to address everything from recycling and affordable housing to flood prevention and growth management.

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After the U.S. House voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and block patients from care at Planned Parenthood on May 4, supporters flooded their representatives» districts offices with pink — Planned Parenthood pink!

Since 2003, when Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan was launched, the HDC has raised more than $ 6.7 billion in financing and contributed in excess of $ 1 billion in subsidy from corporate reserves for the creation or preservation of more than 60,000 affordable units in privately owned and managed multifamily affordable housing develoHousing Marketplace Plan was launched, the HDC has raised more than $ 6.7 billion in financing and contributed in excess of $ 1 billion in subsidy from corporate reserves for the creation or preservation of more than 60,000 affordable units in privately owned and managed multifamily affordable housing develohousing developments.