Sentences with phrase «affordable than city»

In 2004, I was living in the suburbs as a single mom because it was more affordable than city living.

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Not only was housing more affordable than in tech hubs like San Francisco or New York City, the costs of going out and food were also much cheaper.

Over the years, Gotham has pushed through initiatives that ranged from lifestyle perks like free Wi - Fi in public parks and subway stations to make the city more attractive to a tech workforce, to establishing a network of business incubators to help provide affordable office space to more than 500 startups.

Some of the following cities are more affordable than others, but when all contributing factors are combined, each is a great choice for entrepreneurs to put down roots.

For example, Fort Lauderdale apartment rents are already less affordable than in most large U.S. cities and up by nearly three percent in the last year.

That's because the CMIT Solutions name commands instant credibility — with more than 150 offices across the nation, CMIT Solutions is relied upon for affordable IT solutions in small and medium - size businesses in nearly every major city.

With more than 150 offices across the nation, CMIT is relied upon for affordable IT solutions in business markets in nearly every major city.

If you're looking for affordable homes, then look no further than Trenton — it easily ranks No. 1 for the city with the most affordable home prices on our list.

Our cities and towns require a public service bank that lends at affordable rates rather than at higher rates and fees that support short - term investor profit and excessive executive pay and bonuses.

Fitchburg is located less than 15 miles from Gardner, the most affordable city on our list.

It is less than six miles from the second cheapest city in our study, Fitchburg, and less than 20 miles from the most affordable city, Gardner.

Farmers is the most affordable insurance company by $ 197, which is greater than some renters insurance quotes offered in other cities.

The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building or preserving more than 100,000 units of affordable housing — enough to house every resident in the City of Buffalo.

Since 2011, HCR has financed the creation or preservation of more than 2,000 affordable multifamily homes in the City of Rochester and more than 3,600 in Monroe County.

Under de Blasio, New York City is financing affordable housing at a breakneck pace, creating or preserving over 24,500 units last year — more than any year on record — spending $ 1.1 billion, the most ever by the city in a single year, according to City Hall officiCity is financing affordable housing at a breakneck pace, creating or preserving over 24,500 units last year — more than any year on record — spending $ 1.1 billion, the most ever by the city in a single year, according to City Hall officicity in a single year, according to City Hall officiCity Hall officials.

As part of creating and preserving more than 20,000 homes for middle - income New Yorkers, the City will launch a new mixed - income program that is 100 percent affordable.

More than one in four residents, 27 %, say the amount of affordable housing in the city has increased.

«Rather than razing a much loved and much needed community asset in Elizabeth Street Garden, the City should work with Community Board 2 to select more appropriate locations that will allow for both affordable housing and preservation of the Garden.»

Critics note that the current program only requires developers to include affordable units if their buildings are in the «Geographic Exclusion Area» covering less than 17 percent of the five boroughs, and that it costs the city upwards of $ 1.1 billion in foregone revenues.

Still, «the most pressing issue in our city of this generation is affordable housing,» James said; she stated that in her second term, she would work to address that problem, whether through making «preferential rent» permanent (rather than something a landlord can change or remove at whim), or creating more housing, rather than shelters, for homeless New Yorkers.

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.

Since then, its work has expanded to 14 cities in upstate New York and Pennsylvania where more than 1,400 units of affordable housing and over $ 300 million in community investment have improved countless lives and neighborhoods.

By flaunting City law, illegal hotels are doing more than threatening our affordable housing stock and our quality of life.»

It was deemed more important than education issues, creating more affordable housing, combating heroin addictions, increasing cancer screening, or deciding if mayoral control of New York City's schools should continue.

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.

MIH is one of the mechanisms the city utilizes to advance its plan to build or preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next decade; it allows developers to build taller buildings than existing regulations allow if they include affordable housing.

ALBANY — Mayor Bill de Blasio may have come to the Capitol on Tuesday to ask state lawmakers for help with affordable housing programs and homeless shelter allowances, but he found himself forced to answer a barrage of questions about an unexpected issue as more than a half - dozen lawmakers pressured him to allow a property tax cap in the city.

There was the time, less than a month later, when Mr. de Blasio, as a centerpiece of his State of the City address, announced a plan to build an affordable housing complex on a Queens rail yard — and Mr. Cuomo, within hours, shot it down.

«It's crucial to lower the expenses of hard - working people, but to be fair — nothing does more to address income equality than actually raising people's incomes,» Mr. de Blasio said today in his State of the City Address, which focused largely on making New York City a more affordable place to live.

«The city's Mitchell - Lama portfolio provides stable, affordable apartments to more than 100,000 New Yorkers, the vast majority of whom are low - income,» Been said.

The newest set of data published by the state Department of Health shows that more than 37 percent of New York residents already enrolled for coverage through the Affordable Care Act live in New York City.

Much more than that, the preservation of the Brighton Towers Mitchell Lama complex means that it will remain affordable for Syracuse's seniors for 40 more years and that it will continue to be an important, viable part of our city's housing stock.

Across the ten least affordable cities in Britain including Oxford, London and Bristol, building on less than 5 per cent of green belt land in the ten least affordable UK cities would supply 1.4 million homes close to train stations.

Both programs focus on maintaining or creating affordable housing — a big issue for a city where more than 30 percent of New Yorkers spend more than half of their income on rent.

And the relative success of the programs in those cities seemed to deliver numbers far smaller than Mr. de Blasio needs for his plan, which calls for the creation or maintenance of 200,000 affordable units in 10 years, to succeed.

The mayor also touted his accomplishments such as the more than 70,000 children enrolled in full - day pre-kindergarten, Police Commissioner James O'Neill's neighborhood policing program and his push for more affordable housing, reminding the audience that the city needs to be inclusive of people of all socioeconomic statuses.

However, while Labour argue that this would help to make living in high - demand cities like London and Oxford more affordable, these plans actually run the risk of deepening the housing crisis rather than solving it.

Although housing in Manchester is cheaper than in half of the cities in the country (with average house prices 6.9 times more than average income, compared to the national average of 9.8 times), the Mayor will also need to be seen to address concerns over a lack affordable housing.

Rent stabilization laws last came under review in 2011 and, since then, more than 35,000 affordable units have left the system, according to city officials.

More than 1,300 affordable housing developers, advocates, and industry leaders attended the New York State Association of Affordable Housing's (NYSAFAH) 12th Annual Conference in New York City where HCR's Arnie Adler, Director of the Low - Income Housing Tax Credit Program, was named Advocate ofaffordable housing developers, advocates, and industry leaders attended the New York State Association of Affordable Housing's (NYSAFAH) 12th Annual Conference in New York City where HCR's Arnie Adler, Director of the Low - Income Housing Tax Credit Program, was named Advocate ofAffordable Housing's (NYSAFAH) 12th Annual Conference in New York City where HCR's Arnie Adler, Director of the Low - Income Housing Tax Credit Program, was named Advocate of the Year.

In 2015, the de Blasio administration worked to significantly reform the 421 - a law to increase the amount of affordable housing required of every developer receiving the subsidy, require affordability for lower incomes than ever before, and demand affordable housing everywhere in the City.

You must earn more than $ 71,000 a year to apply for these 59 new units soon to be up for grabs on the city's affordable housing lottery.

A spokesman for de Blasio's campaign said: «Under three years of Mayor de Blasio's leadership, crime is at record low levels, jobs are at record highs, graduation rates are up and New York City is building more affordable housing than ever before.

He's struggled to staunch the growth of the city's homeless population despite building or protecting more than 77,000 affordable homes.

«What matters are results: crime is down 6 percent from last year's record lows, more affordable housing is being built than at any time in the past 40 years and the city has added more than 150,000 jobs since the mayor took office.»

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.

«While polls go up and polls go down, the mayor remains focused on keeping NYC the safest big city in America, adding over 65,000 pre-K seats, creating more affordable housing than in decades, the first ever rent freeze, the lowest unemployment rate since the recession, and making New York a fairer city for its millions of residents,» said Peter Kadushin, a spokesman for Mr. de Blasio.

The funding, received through New York State's Regional Economic Development Council (REDC) Initiative, will assist the City in transforming contaminated and inaccessible land into a vibrant mixed - use waterfront community featuring more than 5 acres of open space, market rate and affordable rental housing, and retail.

He reintroduced an idea that he proposed in February of this year — to use some of the land on the more than 1,100 vacant lots the city already owns to build affordable housing, creating a land bank and land trust that would partner with nonprofit affordable housing developers to build what Stringer has estimated could amount to 57,000 units of affordable housing citywide.

New York City now has over $ 5 billion in overall reserves — the highest amount ever — but it is not enough to cover the more than $ 7 billion in federal aid that the city relies on to fight terrorism, provide affordable housing and fund the NYPD's anti-terrorism effoCity now has over $ 5 billion in overall reserves — the highest amount ever — but it is not enough to cover the more than $ 7 billion in federal aid that the city relies on to fight terrorism, provide affordable housing and fund the NYPD's anti-terrorism effocity relies on to fight terrorism, provide affordable housing and fund the NYPD's anti-terrorism efforts.