Sentences with phrase «building affordable housing for»

And Habitat for Humanity is building affordable housing for local families near a new high school campus, which students from the district's architecture theme school will help them build.

Japan today has one of the smallest governmental sectors in the developed world, because a lot of the tasks of the welfare state, from providing economic support during business downturns to building affordable housing for low wage workers, were assumed by large private employers.

In Staten Island — which is «still a pain in the ass to get to» — Douglaston is building affordable housing for seniors, and the developer is also building affordable rentals in the Bronx.

We are not inheriting the earthly power or the worldly wealth, hut when Pentecostal and Catholic show up at city hall to make a plan to build affordable houses for the poor, we catch a glimpse of another, better kingdom.

Community Board 1 voted 25 to 1 against a plan to build affordable housing for mentally ill residents.

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The following year, she contributed to the YWCA to build the Elm Centre, an affordable housing complex for women in downtown Toronto.

The proposal, an employee hours tax that would transition to a payroll tax in 2021, would generate $ 75 million per year for Seattle, most of which would go to building affordable housing.

«The barriers to building housing that's affordable for people at all levels of income is not the money that's available.

But for many other cities, tall buildings are needed to fill a shortage of affordable, innovative and sustainable housing.

And most of all, don't increase those Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund fees developers would pay for opting out of building affordaAffordable Housing Opportunity Fund fees developers would pay for opting out of building affordableaffordable units.

The developers of Pacific Park face some risk; the amended development agreement imposes a 2025 deadline for 2,250 affordable housing units, nearly 1,470 of which remain to be built.

The Florida Keys is in line for up to 1,300 building permits reserved for affordable workforce housing.

That means taking such steps as investing in affordable housing projects or advocating for zoning changes to make housing easier to build, the survey found.

He became interested in housing for Native Americans, and has built affordable housing on reservations in the northwestern U.S. Former prostitute and drug addict Norma Hotaling's organization SAGE (Standing Against Global Exploitation) works with prostitutes in San Francisco, many of whom have been abused and are addicted to drugs.

The federal government was the main source of subsidy in the «60s and «70s, offering for - profit developers below - market interest rates and tax incentives to build and maintain affordable housing.

The company also is in the process of expanding into housing and is in the process of building a factory for its housing division where it will build the steel structures for affordable homes.

The people of Riverside County, along with those in the communities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, enjoy an exceptional quality of life, a mild climate, good air quality, reasonably priced land and building sites adjacent to the I - 15 and I - 215 corridors, affordable housing at all levels, a highly skilled labor force, quality educational facilities and programs and cultural, entertainment and recreational activities for every lifestyle.

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.

The Prime Minister's announcement for social and affordable housing, outlined yesterday in the government's Building Britain's Future, confirms the expectation that the government will miss its own target from the 2007 Housing Green Paper, according to the Construction Products Assochousing, outlined yesterday in the government's Building Britain's Future, confirms the expectation that the government will miss its own target from the 2007 Housing Green Paper, according to the Construction Products AssocHousing Green Paper, according to the Construction Products Association.

At 11:30 a.m., low - wage tenants and workers and members of Real Affordability for All and building and construction unions call for real affordable housing and good union jobs from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Hall Park, near Broadway and Park Place, Manhattan.

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.

But now almost a year later, it appears as though they have; 421a is not only essential for developers, it's the only way to ensure that affordable housing gets built.

Also at 10 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul breaks ground on affordable housing for seniors at the converted School 77 building, 429 Plymouth Ave., Buffalo.

Also at 10 a.m., Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer and NYC Councilman Mark Levine call for affordable housing to be built at a building currently owned by the city Department of Transportation, 654 W. 158th St., Manhattan.

«From starting universal Pre-K to making our city safer to building housing that is truly affordable for working families, we have been building a fairer and more just City with the Mayor's progressive leadership.

From activists for social and environmental justice, to advocates for affordable housing and alternative transportation, to leaders in the struggle for immigrants» rights and civil rights, NKD is building a progressive Brooklyn alliance.

«I want to thank HELP USA, SAGE, and our partners in government for their collaboration in providing desperately needed affordable housing for our seniors who helped to build this city.»

Other highlights from the debate included Rangel calling for a «moratorium» on luxury housing, saying anything new built in the area needed to be 100 percent affordable housing.

«There are some specific districts that are already very highly built up, for example Midtown Manhattan, where there's an opportunity to do some more, and to include affordable housing.

Secondly, Labour should be saying they would instead use a large chunk of the money for an unprecedented affordable house - building program.

Meanwhile, urgency is clearly building for some program that incentivizes the development of housing, especially affordable units.

At an earlier community forum, Johnson took credit for having forced the developer to increase the level of affordable housing to be built from 20 % to 26 %.

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.

The new Affordable New York Housing Program lets developers of rental apartment buildings off the hook for property taxes for 35 years.

On The Brian Lehrer Show Friday morning, de Blasio defended both the bills and his administration's push for bigger buildings — all through his typical lens of expanding affordable housing at nearly any cost.

Build Affordable Housing: 51 percent of renters and 34 percent of homeowners in New York pay more than the federal affordability standard of 30 percent of income for hHousing: 51 percent of renters and 34 percent of homeowners in New York pay more than the federal affordability standard of 30 percent of income for housinghousing.

Currently it mandates developers who build in rezoned areas of the city pick from one of three options for affordable housing: 25 percent of their units rented to those making, on average, 60 percent of the Area Median Income, 30 percent at 80 percent of the AMI or 30 percent at 120 percent.

The building's 1997 vote had the effect of doing away with the union's ownership structure, which was designed to keep such housing affordable for future generations.

«It went form vacant lots and burned out buildings to having an enormous amount of affordable housing for people.»

With the tax break coming up for its four - year renewal in Albany, the administration has rolled out a proposal that would end the GEA and require affordable housing in rental buildings in the program citywide, while eliminating the exemption for condominiums.

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.

The mayor is still missing a new version of the 421a building tax credit — the gas for his affordable housing engine — but the rule changes have potential to permanently change both the city's rental market and its physical terrain.

Much of the audience at the hearing wore the orange t - shirts of UP4NYC, a building trades union group formed to oppose Mr. de Blasio's proposal to reform 421a to expand the requirements for affordable housing, but not mandate prevailing wages for construction workers.

In her testimony before the Council, Ms. Glen noted that the 421a credit — a frequent target for liberals — is available for most projects across the city, but developers are only required to include any affordable housing in their buildings in the so - called «geographical exclusion area» covering just 16.5 percent of the city.

She said she created the Mattituck - Laurel Civic Association because she saw a need for the community to have a voice in its changing landscape, with increased traffic, new building and proposals that change the landscape, water quality, agritainment and nowhere for young people to work or affordable workforce housing to stay local.

Whatever program comes next to spur affordable housing in 421a's wake, Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, said he'd keep pushing for better pay for construction workers.

MJM Construction's website is no longer online, but an archived version described their plans for the property: a 91 - unit «affordable housing complex» in a seven - story elevator building.

Tearing down blight and building affordable and fantastic new housing for our residents will improve the quality life for our residents.

«It is unprecedented to convert part of an existing economic development project that provides affordable housing and retail jobs for the purpose of building a casino which would obviously affect the social fabric of our community.»

Meanwhile, the new 421 - a program, which gives a tax break to developers in exchange for affordable housing, no longer helps residents of the community where the project is built.