Sentences with phrase «build affordable housing if»

The mayor's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing initiative would require developers to build affordable housing if their projects benefit from city rezonings.

But the only change to MIH was a tweak to part of the plan the city is legally obligated to include, allowing developers to get out of building affordable housing if it creates a «hardship.»

Not exact matches

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, «If 421 - a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

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.

If 421a is simply extended as - is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

«We would not have build thousands and thousands of affordable units of housing in the city of New York if we didn't have the 421 - a program,» Klein said.

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.

Even if that construction happens, there are options other than affordable housing being considered, Mr. Cuomo said, including building a convention center.

«I have often said that if all that ends up happening is that the county builds these affordable housing units [to satisfy the settlement], and then never builds affordable housing again, this would not have been successful,» she said.

However, if the building is repaired, the affordable housing must be maintained, Gee said.

«This is an example for the rest of the city that if you really want to build affordable housing, this is the way to do it,» added State Senator Adriano Espaillat.

«We can talk about building hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing units, but if we're losing the same housing units on the other side, then we have a zero - sum game,» said Mr. Stringer, recalling a report by his office that discovered the loss of 400,000 units renting for $ 1,000 or less over the past 12 years.

If a building containing rent - regulated housing is demolished, the landlord has no obligation to reinstate the affordable housing in the new building, according to Peter Gee, the director of housing and community services for Asian Americans for Equality, an organization that offered legal help for the residents.

If tensions between the GLA and the London Boroughs grow, plans to build affordable housing may be hampered.

Even if public policy provides incentives for affordable housing development, landlords continue to move toward deregulation and raise the rent in existing buildings.

If the goal is to build affordable housing, then requesting contempt of court orders and seeking penalties is completely counterproductive — the litigation will only slow the process down and make it more difficult in the future for municipalities to provide affordable housing.»

If rezoning protections are passed, those companies will have to follow new rules that seriously limit their height of their buildings and mandate permanently affordable housing.

Not only would her own family benefit, Ms. Sepenoski said, but her workers would, too, if more local affordable housing was built.

If they're going to build new affordable housing with taxes raised that's one thing.

Housing Supply Trump likes to build things, and if you ask 100 real estate agents from around the country what is the one thing that would help them sell more homes, the most common answer would be increasing available housing inventory, especially in the affordable price Housing Supply Trump likes to build things, and if you ask 100 real estate agents from around the country what is the one thing that would help them sell more homes, the most common answer would be increasing available housing inventory, especially in the affordable price housing inventory, especially in the affordable price ranges.

I can tell you as an active fund manager in the nationwide preservation of affordable housing, the competition to acquire buildings most difficult to match is in the form of either investors who project spending little (if any) in capital improvements (to maximize cash flow) or those who plan to displace these affordable residents by petitioning to remove the rental restrictions and bring the apartment community back to market rental rate returns.