Sentences with phrase «building affordable housing over»

Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed building affordable housing over the tracks at Sunnyside Yards in Queens during his recent State of the City address, but Diaz advocated checking out Bronx locations instead.

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It would build over 2000 new affordable housing units, open new health care facilities create new parks and open new farmers markets.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today unveiled a $ 41.1 billion affordable housing plan that city officials touted as the most ambitious in the city and nation's history, and which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years.

A bill to repeal the vacancy allowance has languished in the State Assembly for years, but some see an opening to inject the issue into negotiations over the renewal of a tax exemption for developers who build affordable housing.

We have published details of our plans to build 150,000 more affordable houses over the next four years.

That is why we have consistently said, it is why the IMF have said, bring forward # 10billion of infrastructure investment right now, build 400,000 affordable houses over the next two years, create half a million jobs and thousands of apprenticeships.

Over the course of the approval process, Jamestown had made several concessions to city planning officials and opponents of the project, nixing a plan to build a hotel and earmarking money for affordable housing.

The mayor has said his proposed changes will help him reach a goal of building 80,000 new units of affordable housing, and preserving another 120,000, over the next decade.

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

The housing bonds, known in the industry as «bond cap» or «volume cap,» are responsible for a significant chunk of the affordable housing built in New York City — 17,000 of the roughly 40,000 units the city has created over the past two years.

«We've got over 250,000 more affordable homes - and here's a statistic he'll like: in the last Parliament we built more council houses than in 13 years of a Labour government,» he said.

The latest budget added $ 1.9 billion to increase the mayor's affordable housing goals from building or preserving 40,000 units over the next 10 years to 50,000 units.

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.

This design aim has generally been achieved, but there are inevitably some tensions between the more dynamic GLA and the small and slower - moving London Boroughs — e.g. over plans to build more affordable housing to combat the capital's crisis of housing costs that are well above ordinary Londoners» ability to pay.

«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.

«We plan to increase capital investment in house building, reform housing benefit, and build up to 400,000 affordable homes over the coming decade.»

Among the issues he has focused on over the years are curbing gun violence, preventing foreclosures, building more affordable housing and creating jobs.

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.

The proposals, which would require approval by the State Legislature, are central to the mayor's promise to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over 10 years.

In January, Cuomo proposed spending $ 20 billion over the next five years to build affordable housing, emergency shelter beds, and supportive housing, which combines housing with social services.

Every year, the authority turns its millions of dollars of excess revenue over to the city, where some of it goes to build affordable housing in other neighborhoods.

We look forward to partnering over the next months to structure a program that works for the real estate community, and works for the hard working men and women who build affordable housing in New York City.»

Several dozen members of various community groups organized under the coalition of «Real Affordability for All» gathered on the steps of City Hall to voice their concerns about Mr. de Blasio's housing program, which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.

They're completely different: mobile homes haven't been built since the mid-1070s, while manufactured homes currently lead affordable housing trends all over the country.

Over the past 53 years, the Pratt Center has built on its model of inclusive planning to address such issues as sustainable community development, transportation equity, affordable housing, and urban manufacturing.

Through our Green Affordable Housing Initiative work over the past twenty years, Global Green recognizes that the LIHTC program and the QAPs that guide the distribution of tax credits can play an essential role in increasing the national rate of adoption of green building practices in affordable housing design and conAffordable Housing Initiative work over the past twenty years, Global Green recognizes that the LIHTC program and the QAPs that guide the distribution of tax credits can play an essential role in increasing the national rate of adoption of green building practices in affordable housing design and constrHousing Initiative work over the past twenty years, Global Green recognizes that the LIHTC program and the QAPs that guide the distribution of tax credits can play an essential role in increasing the national rate of adoption of green building practices in affordable housing design and conaffordable housing design and constrhousing design and construction.

The state legislature recently established a groundbreaking Multifamily Affordable Housing Solar Roofs Program and earmarked up to $ 1 billion in cap - and - trade funding over 10 years to incentivize solar installations on such buildings.

In Toronto, according to the Star, A new group of housing activists wants the city to take over neglected and underutilized buildings and convert them into affordable housing.

It's located in Paterson, New Jersey, and it will serve as a template for a project to build over 3,000 affordable housing units in Paterson.

A nationwide coalition of organizations, Transportation for America is also calling for a a revamped system of transportation in America, including federal help in retrofitting unsafe urban roads, complete streets for cars, cyclists and pedestrians, more local and democratic decision - making and using transport to create affordable housing and jobs (they are talking about over 20 million new jobs in building new infrastructure and repairing the old).

Recognizing the need for affordable housing, and increased building costs and land restrictions in many markets over the past 15 years, developers and investors have been turning attached rental stock into for - sale condominium communities — and the movement to convert has never been stronger than in the past year.