Sentences with phrase «buildings housing tenants»

1210 - A requiring diaper changing stations in new and renovated buildings with public restrooms, regardless of gender; Intro 1241 - A to create a watch list of rent regulated buildings housing tenants at - risk for eviction, City Hall, Blue Room, Manhattan.

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Co-sponsoring Eggman's bill was the California Solar Energy Industries Association, which notes the challenge of installing solar panels on any multi-unit apartment building is far greater than on a single - family home, especially for a building housing low - income tenants.

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.

As Chair of the Council's Housing and Buildings Committee, I am thrilled that the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has for the first time in its history voted to freeze rent for 1.2 million rent stabilized tenants,» said Williams, who represents the 45th Council District in Brooklyn.

This week, New York City Housing Authority tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City council members will launch an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in their homes and apartment buildings.

The building, a former tire factory which was at one point supposed to house tech companies, stood in disuse before GFI bought it in 2008 with plans to rehab the building as mixed - use residential and commercial space, ideally capturing a major City agency as a long - term tenant.

And landlords will now only be able to increase rent for individual apartment improvements one sixtieth, versus one fourtieth, the cost of the improvement, though only in buildings with 36 or more units, something landlords claim will worsen housing conditions for tenants.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Albanese holds a press conference on building market rate housing on public land; market rate tenants to occupy upper floors; «poor floors» for everyone else, NYCHA Holmes Towers, 1780 First Ave., Manhattan.

Buildings that once housed thousands of juvenile offenders in rural Perth may soon have scores of new tenants kept under lock and key: marijuana plants.

I make it 21 to date, including tax - cuts for low - earners, the introduction of a mansion tax, a major council house - building programme, cuts to universal benefits for wealthy pensioners, rent reforms for private tenants, a living wage for public sector workers, and an elected House of Lhouse - building programme, cuts to universal benefits for wealthy pensioners, rent reforms for private tenants, a living wage for public sector workers, and an elected House of LHouse of Lords.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

Displaced tenants of 85 Bowery and housing advocates demonstrate Thursday in front of the DOB building at 280 Broadway to demand a deadline for the return to their building.

The office tower at 180 Maiden Lane, a 1.2 million - square - foot building in downtown Manhattan that once housed insurance giant American International Group Inc., is getting a new tenant: consumer - debt resolution company National Debt Relief.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and council members were among the housing advocates, families, and New York City tenants who planned to sleep outside of the Murray Hill office building in hopes of spurring action from the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo and the Assembly.

In the housing workshop I was really impressed by how much Jack Dromey's team are listening to party members and the wider community and are developing really promising policies on planning reform, building more homes and tackling the many challenges faced by tenants in the private rented sector.

«This governor has spent his entire career in public service fighting homelessness and building affordable housing and it's under his leadership that New York is implementing an unprecedented $ 20 billion anti-homelessness and housing problem, twice strengthened rent protections with Assembly Democrats and created a tenant protection unit that placed more than 6,000 buildings and 61,000 units back under rent stabilization,» said spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

David Cameron announced increased discounts to encourage council tenants to buy their homes, alongside a «build now, pay later» scheme to encourage developers to build on government land and only pay for it once a house is sold.

But the tenant, a four - person production company called The Film House, never established a permanent presence in the building.

«Unless we address the gaping operating and capital deficits, and do so fully, NYCHA's buildings will continue to deteriorate — depriving tenants of the level of housing they deserve,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The Inwood resident has been a housing advocate, and signed on as a building inspector with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to assist tenants with taking landlords to court over poor living condhousing advocate, and signed on as a building inspector with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to assist tenants with taking landlords to court over poor living condHousing Preservation and Development to assist tenants with taking landlords to court over poor living conditions.

1:30 PM — Mayor Bill de Blasio visits tenants in newly built affordable housing and delivers remarks.

Tenants at the New York City Housing Authority's Carleton Manor apartment building in the Rockaways said they've been deluged by leaks since the work started.

In a 2013 Daily News story, sources accused Silver of quietly slipping the tax breaks for five real estate developers into an otherwise noncontroversial 2013 housing bill that was designed to renew tax abatements for co-op and condo owners and expand protections for tenants of loft buildings.

Landlords will also be held accountable by state housing officials for how much they spend to upgrade rent - stabilized apartments before they're allowed to charge tenants for building improvements.

At noon, Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, Goodard Riverside Law Project, local elected officials, affordable housing advocates and tenants holds a press conference to announce the filing of a temporary restraining order against illegal hotel operator Michael Edelstein, owner of the Imperial Court, a single room occupancy building on the Upper West Side, 230 West 72nd St., Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will deliver keys to a senior signing his lease and moving into a new affordable housing development and host a media availability to discuss progress on building and protecting affordable housing and tenants across the city, Cypress Hills Senior Residences, 137 Jamaica Ave., Brooklyn.

Also protesting Cuomo's speech will be tenant groups, who are opposing his «failure to fight for stronger rent protections, his failure to release the funds he promised a year ago to build housing for homeless families, and his attempt to revive the wasteful 421 - a giveaway to his rich real estate developer friends.»

«It penalises both our tenants and ourselves for not being able to magic up a supply of smaller properties, particularly those with only one bedroom, when we have been funded by the government since our inception to build nothing smaller than two - bedroom flats and houses.»

One of the new provisions of Cuomo's affordable housing plan would likely increase rents for most New York City tenants who move into buildings constructed under the program.

Less drastic, but more surprising, are conditions in an apartment building on E. 162 St. that led to a tenant protest against one of the city's biggest developers and managers of affordable housing.

«Years of federal and state disinvestment have led to deteriorating buildings, depriving tenants of the level of housing they deserve,» de Blasio said in a statement.

NYCHA tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City Councilmembers launched an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in homes and apartment buildings inside public housing.

Also, buildings would no longer be allowed to have a separate entrance for affordable housing tenants — the so - called «poor door.»

Instead, the tax benefits would only go to rental construction, and provisions that allow buildings to have a separate entrance for affordable housing tenants — the so - called «poor door» — would be eliminated.

On Tues., July 24th, New York City Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez, together with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and New York State Senator Adriano Espaillat, was joined by city agencies New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development (HPD), the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), and local non-profit the Community League of the Heights (CLOTH) at a town hall meeting to address concerns of tenants in foreclosed Vantage Property buildings.

Silver said the city could hold the program in the community room at Rutgers Houses, a New York City Housing Authority building near the Manhattan Bridge, whose tenant association supports the idea.

At 9:15 a.m., the Parkash Tenant Coalition, a coalition of tenants from 15 of landlord Ved Parkash's buildings, publicly announces its formation, holds a press conference, and rallies with the support of NYC Public Advocate Tish James to seek justice, after they claim 2,369 violations in 11 of his 43 buildings, Bronx Housing Court, 1118 Grand Concourse, the Bronx.

Council housing must be built and tenants» rights strengthened - otherwise, who is May's government seeking to protect?

At 10:30 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will meet a tenant who recently moved into a newly built affordable apartment and make a major affordable housing announcement, 560 Winthrop St., Community Room 2, Brooklyn.

Policies vary from the emotive debate to end secure tenancy for life for future social housing tenants, via plans to financially reward councils that build new homes, to reforms to the housing benefit and planning system.

After deploying numerous tools to address persistent problems at this building, we are working with housing advocates and tenants to lodge an action against the landlord to take over operations,» de Blasio said, according to the Post.

Another big issue for public housing tenants throughout the Lower East Side is NextGeneration NYCHA, which calls for building new mixed - income housing alongside existing residential towers.

«Unless we address the gaping operating and capital deficits and do so fully, NYCHA's buildings will continue to deteriorate — depriving tenants of the level of housing they deserve.»

Four - hundred homeless adults were brought to the single room occupancy (SRO) building, where 71 rent - regulated tenants already lived, to be housed at a cost of more than $ 3,000 a month per unit.

The building on the far left may be one of the blocks reserved for social housing tenants (Lucy Pasha - Robinson / Independent)

With those tenants gone, the fourth and fifth floor would be converted into a duplex, and the building — which houses many elderly residents — would be modified to include an elevator to serve just those two floors.

Housing activists say the hotels — where tourists rent rooms in buildings with permanent tenants — are eating into the city's stock of affordable housing because landlords are converting apartments into hotelHousing activists say the hotels — where tourists rent rooms in buildings with permanent tenants — are eating into the city's stock of affordable housing because landlords are converting apartments into hotelhousing because landlords are converting apartments into hotel rooms.

The city will use the 1962 Speigel law, which allows it to cease rent payments on behalf of tenants living on public assistance should their building have a number of housing violations, as a «back to the future kind of solution» to dealing with bad landlords, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Thursday.

Theoretically, a massive state - led house building programme would, eventually, reduce pressure on the Private Rented Sector and improve tenant bargaining power.

Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.