Sentences with phrase «as an affordable housing program»

«This new public housing program will be a jobs program, a desegregation program, and a clean energy program as well as an affordable housing program.

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The Single - Family Affordable Solar Housing Program (SASH) and the Multifamily Affordable Solar Housing Program (MASH) were launched in 2009 as the country's first statewide low - income solar programs, offering rebates and incentives for installation.

The university's contributions go well beyond funding, as evidenced by the affordable housing it provides for community residents; the program it sponsors to allow university staff to serve as volunteer firefighters in Princeton; the students who help staff the first aid and rescue squad; the auditing program it offers to community residents; the intellectual, cultural and athletic events it makes available to community residents; and it supports entities like McCarter Theatre and Garden Theatre.

Amazon halts an expansion effort in its hometown as the Seattle City Council prepares to vote on a new tax that would be levied on large business to pay for affordable housing and homeless - assistance programs.

The budget dedicates $ 11.2 billion to cities and provinces for affordable housing over 10 years as part of the second wave of the government's infrastructure program, $ 5 billion of which is to encourage housing providers to pool their resources with private partners to pay for new projects.

Surrounded by several affordable housing complexes, Downey serves as a central gathering place for the surrounding community, offering an afterschool program with the Harrisburg Boys & Girls Club and a health clinic in partnership with the Hamilton Health Center.

Bostonpost is a leading software - as - a-service (SaaS) provider of affordable housing property management software designed to optimize compliance within the complex environment of funding programs and regulations, and to help property owners and managers reduce administrative overhead and costs associated with compliance.

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.

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At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

The program, which housing advocates see as a giveaway to developers, previously required developers to market affordable units to residents of the surrounding neighborhood before the rest of the city.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

The plan includes an expansion of the state's Urban Youth Jobs Program, a large increase in affordable housing and homeless services funding, and a student loan program that would supplement the federal Pay As You Earn income - based loan repayment pProgram, a large increase in affordable housing and homeless services funding, and a student loan program that would supplement the federal Pay As You Earn income - based loan repayment pprogram that would supplement the federal Pay As You Earn income - based loan repayment programprogram.

It remains to be seen how these new goals will play out, in conjunction with the newly rebooted 421a (dubbed Affordable New York), which gives developers a 35 - year break from taxes, as well as the mayor's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program.

Currently, the 421 - a program requires developers to set aside 20 percent of their projects as affordable housing — but only in certain parts of the city.

«Clearly 421a needs to be reformed and we need to ensure that this program creates more affordable housing, reaches more people with lower incomes than ever before and increases the percentage requirement as Mayor de Blasio suggested,» she said.

«As Borough President, he helped thousands of families and individuals to open bank accounts through his Bank On Manhattan program, and fought for rent regulations and permanent affordable housing.

«In the Senate, I want to fight for public safety and criminal justice reform, education programs, affordable housing, increased access to mental health care, economic development and opportunities, and social service reforms, especially as they affect middle class families and the working poor,» he said in a statement.

Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi reiterated his statement from May 2 that «we are actively engaged with the Legislature to get this funding out the door and into affordable housing programs as soon as possible, because every New Yorker deserves a safe, affordable and decent place to call home.»

It will also serve as a jobs program, an affordable housing program, and a clean energy program,» Hawkins said.

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.

After the loss, he stayed on with Nadler, working as his district coordinator while also volunteering as leader of the Mitchell - Lama Residents Coalition, which sought to preserve affordable housing right around the time Mitchell - Lama properties began aging out of the program.

Spinola said some form of the program will be necessary as Mayor Bill de Blasio embarks on his ambitious initiative to build 80,000 affordable housing units within a decade.

NYS $ 588 Million for Affordable and Supportive Housing Released 6/7/2017 New York State Homes and Community Renewal issued an RFP for more than $ 588 million to advance the creation and preservation of a wide range of affordable housing, including up to $ 175 million for supportive housing as part of the Supportive Housing OpportunitAffordable and Supportive Housing Released 6/7/2017 New York State Homes and Community Renewal issued an RFP for more than $ 588 million to advance the creation and preservation of a wide range of affordable housing, including up to $ 175 million for supportive housing as part of the Supportive Housing Opportunity PHousing Released 6/7/2017 New York State Homes and Community Renewal issued an RFP for more than $ 588 million to advance the creation and preservation of a wide range of affordable housing, including up to $ 175 million for supportive housing as part of the Supportive Housing Opportunitaffordable housing, including up to $ 175 million for supportive housing as part of the Supportive Housing Opportunity Phousing, including up to $ 175 million for supportive housing as part of the Supportive Housing Opportunity Phousing as part of the Supportive Housing Opportunity PHousing Opportunity Program.

As part of his $ 1 billion House New York Program, Governor Andrew Cuomo has made the creation and preservation of affordable housing a priority.

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.

«So it would be a jobs program, and affordable housing program and energy program as well as a desegregation program.»

Amid some uncertainty about how the city would achieve Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable - housing goals without the program known as 421 - a, and how developers would finance their projects, one thing seemed clear: The immediate prospects of Albany lawmakers restoring the program looked bleak.

«As we create these hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, we also make sure they are done by qualified, professional programs and builders and workers,» she said, insisting that union construction is safer and of superior quality.

Sydney House will be the first project financed under HPD's Open Door program, which was announced last year as part of Mayor de Blasio's Housing 2.0 plan to create and preserve 300,000 affordable homes by 2026.

Public Advocate James, who brought Brawley to the general election mayoral debate on Tuesday night as her guest, has also recently started calling for a much more ambitious overall program of building new affordable housing, putting forth ideas like building more over rail yards across the five boroughs.

Through projects like Sydney House, and our new Open Door program, we will finance the construction of 1,300 new affordable homes as part of Housing New York 2.0, the Mayor's expanded and accelerated plan to create and preserve 300,000 affordable homes by 2026,» said New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Maria Torres - Springer.

The 421 - a program provides tax breaks for developers who provide affordable housing as part of their newly constructed buildings.

A Metro IAF spokesperson also emphasized, as have its leaders, that the pace of NYCHA «infill» projects — like the senior projects Grace referred to — has been too slow and that four years into the affordable housing program, few have broken ground.

Regional Investments to Move New York City Forward - Investments in New York City's outer boroughs - $ 50 million investment in the Montefiore Health System - Transform health and wellness in Brooklyn through measures such as affordable housing with «features such as exercise rooms, rooftop gardens, and health clinics,» the expansion of New York's Land Bank Program, and the establishment of «Brooklyn as a primary location for the FreshConnect Mobile Markets and FreshConnect Checks program expansion to increase access to healthy foods in the area.Program, and the establishment of «Brooklyn as a primary location for the FreshConnect Mobile Markets and FreshConnect Checks program expansion to increase access to healthy foods in the area.program expansion to increase access to healthy foods in the area.»

City Council Speaker Christine Quinn has advocated a $ 20 million program that would put vacant apartments on the market at a discount as affordable housing, and these two buildings would be the first to take part in the program.

«As our city faces a crisis in affordable housing, it is shocking that a city - run program is allowing hundreds of affordable units to remain vacant,» she said in a statement.

The city created the TIL program in 1978 to keep dilapidated buildings occupied so they could be maintained as affordable housing.

Under the city's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program, the partners would set aside 20, 25 or 30 percent of the units as affordable housing, though they haven't yet decided on which option tHousing program, the partners would set aside 20, 25 or 30 percent of the units as affordable housing, though they haven't yet decided on which option thousing, though they haven't yet decided on which option to take.

In the end, new rent rules were approved, but lawmakers punted on renewing a program, known as 421A, that gives tax breaks for developers who build affordable housing.

Issues he cited as crucial in his campaign included job training, affordable housing, assisted living for the elderly, youth programs and maintenance of community services.

The complex was built as affordable housing in 1976 as part of the Mitchell - Lama program.

421 - a & Affordable Housing Money Heastie said Tuesday that there was significant agreement on the new 421 - a property tax abatement program that is meant to spur affordable housing development in the most expensive New York City neighborhoods, and that while there were still concerns, the Assembly would pass Cuomo's version, known as AffordableAffordable Housing Money Heastie said Tuesday that there was significant agreement on the new 421 - a property tax abatement program that is meant to spur affordable housing development in the most expensive New York City neighborhoods, and that while there were still concerns, the Assembly would pass Cuomo's version, known as Affordable NeHousing Money Heastie said Tuesday that there was significant agreement on the new 421 - a property tax abatement program that is meant to spur affordable housing development in the most expensive New York City neighborhoods, and that while there were still concerns, the Assembly would pass Cuomo's version, known as Affordableaffordable housing development in the most expensive New York City neighborhoods, and that while there were still concerns, the Assembly would pass Cuomo's version, known as Affordable Nehousing development in the most expensive New York City neighborhoods, and that while there were still concerns, the Assembly would pass Cuomo's version, known as AffordableAffordable New York.

There was also a mutual disappointment in the governor's office and in City Hall over the lapsed tax break and development program known as 421 - a, which the governor had urged developers and unions to negotiate on last year, and which Mr. de Blasio looked to restart in order to support the creation of affordable housing in the city, a bedrock promise of his first term.

The budget was adopted a little over a week into the new fiscal year, which begins April 1, after compromises were reached among legislative leaders and Governor Andrew Cuomo on contentious issues such as raising the age of adult criminal responsibility, education aid, a college tuition affordability program, the allocation of large sums of affordable housing monies, and more.

Needed: a strategy to promote resilience Compiling a list of suggestions, they push federal agencies to «make resilience a core aspect of all federal infrastructure and disaster - recovery funding» to strengthen affordable housing; ask for federal leaders to expand funding for programs, such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, so at - risk municipalities can develop disaster plans and assess their vulnerabilities; and boost economic stability by opposing cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, so families can afford to eat after a disaster.

Gateway provides a wide array of services to adults, children and families, including around - the - clock psychiatric emergency services, psychiatric medication therapy services, outpatient counseling for individuals and families, specialized residential care for children and adolescents, permanent affordable housing for adults, supervised adult residential services, adult supported housing services, mental health services for adults with persistent mental health issues, a licensed school for children with emotional and behavioral difficulties, nationally recognized vocational and occupational rehabilitation services, a therapeutic outdoor recreation program for children and adolescents, a homeless shelter for families and residential substance abuse services, as well as individual and case management services for adults and children.

IBA is an institution that provides an ample selection of programs for social advancement across all ages, as well as affordable housing.

The hundreds of billions in proposed cuts to critical safety net programs, including Medicaid, food stamps, and affordable housing, would create dire consequences for our families and children, including, as recent research has demonstrated, undermining educational success.

Before beginning her teaching career with Teach for America, Ms. Michaels participated as a leader in Americorps NCCC service program, worked as an outdoor instructor at The Outdoor School, and raised money for affordable housing through a Bike and Build cross-country bicycle trip from Rhode Island to San Francisco.