Sentences with phrase «city subsidies for»

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«To reduce the threshold of innovative entrepreneurship, the government provides appropriate financial subsidies for rent, broadband access and public software for new businesses,» said John Rhee, general manager of the Los Angeles office for UBTECH, a Chinese robotics company headquartered in Shenzhen City that makes humanoid robots for the home.

The state and the city are offering as much as $ 101.8 million in incentives and subsidies for the project, according to the Indiana Economic Development Corp..

And the system set up to pay for rides — a unique municipal subsidy that covers 20 % of any ride that begins and ends in the city, 25 % if it begins or ends at the local light rail station — has already gotten others cities in the surrounding Seminole County interested in replicating it, even though it just started running yesterday.

Wealthy teams get cities to build them new stadiums on the cheap, then pick up and move elsewhere for more subsidies, he said.

While Tesla owners are not eligible for those subsidies because the cars are foreign - made, the city of Shanghai offers free license plates for all electric car brands, saving drivers around $ 12,000 in fees.

As David Dayen wrote for The New Republic during the first round of the Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes, «[T] hey're worse than a zero - sum game between metropolitan areas; they're net - negative, because the corporation extracts the subsidy while cities lose revenue that would otherwise go to education or infrastructure investment to benefit the common good.»

Residents of Baltimore's less affluent communities have been complaining for years about tax incentives for waterfront development and crumbs for neighborhoods struggling to survive, and no amount of explanation about the difference between tax increment financing and direct city subsidies can...

It is raising money for a rent subsidy program designed to attract 25 young people to live in the city.

Why Cities Subsidize Stadiums: Advocates for subsidies include the diehard fans, like myself, the players and the owners looking to make...

The city of Toronto Children Services has a childcare subsidy probram, which is great, and which I have been using for the past year.

«From taxing the wealthy to fund universal pre-K and after - school programs to ending unnecessary subsidies to big corporations and investing in our CUNY system, Bill will be an ally for working families in City Hall.

For its annual operating budget, the MTA also depends on state and city subsidies, as well as a dedicated tax revenue, for 43 percent of cosFor its annual operating budget, the MTA also depends on state and city subsidies, as well as a dedicated tax revenue, for 43 percent of cosfor 43 percent of costs.

A plan to offer a $ 7.6 billion subsidy to the company controlling most of New York's nuclear power plants will cost the City Of Buffalo about $ 3.35 million in added utility costs, according to a new analysis by the Alliance for a Green Economy.

To help mitigate rising utility costs and preserve affordability, the City will launch a new program to targeting mid-size and small buildings — in concert with local utilities and existing subsidy programs — to encourage energy and water - use retrofits in exchange for affordability commitments from building owners.

James added that she knows «this will probably get me into trouble as always,» but that it was important to note that the city is doing all it can do to address affordable housing, providing resources and giving individuals subsidies, among other actions — but that the state government is «primarily responsible for addressing the homeless situation.»

«I'm deeply disappointed that this plan that we believe fundamentally was better for the taxpayers — ended the subsidies of large amounts of luxury housing by the taxpayers, achieved more affordable housing, cut the city's subsidies, just look at the benefits of this plan,» Mr. de Blasio said today at a Brooklyn press conference.

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

The city ended its rental subsidy program for homeless families, called Advantage, in 2011 after it lost state and federal funding.

It renewed rent regulations for over a million apartments in New York City, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity, authorized property tax rebates for 2.5 million homeowners on Long Island and upstate, restructured and extended a tax subsidy for the real estate industry — the biggest source of state campaign contributions — and authorized New York City mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another yCity mayor Bill de Blasio's control of city schools for another ycity schools for another year.

NEW YORK, NY — The City Council wants to offer subsidies to halve subway fares for poor New Yorkers, a move likely to spark renewed debate with Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Known as a «big ugly» in Capitol jargon, the bill extended rent regulations and the 421 - a real estate subsidy program, authorized $ 1.3 billion in property tax rebates, renewed mayoral control of New York City schools for another year, released $ 250 million for mandated expenses of non-public schools and demanded more transparency for controversial state testing.

Mr. de Blasio's team argued that the program would ensure the creation of middle class housing, and thus free up city subsidies that they could then devote solely to financing apartments for the poor.

City Subsidies Grow, Federal Cuts Delayed but Fiscal Challenges Remain for NYC's Public Hospitals

The governor's budget reflects no change from the language in past budgets, Mayor Cuomo's spokesperson Matt Wing told the Journal, because the city has not submitted any new proposals for a rent - subsidy program.

Bill de Blasio's homeless commissioner, Gilbert Taylor, told the City Council this afternoon that he plans to travel to Albany tomorrow to lobby for permission to use state funds for rental subsidies, even as the Cuomo administration suggested it's too late for significant changes this year.

The City Council's general welfare committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution this morning calling on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

They also said they collected about 75 signatures Monday for a petition asking the city to delay the subsidy vote.

«Without access to housing subsidies provided by the City, as well as resources such as public housing and consistent access to supportive housing, far too many homeless young people are at significant risk for violence, abuse and exploitation.»

COXSACKIE — Fresh off an apparently acrimonious interaction with Bill de Blasio in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo is now faulting the New York City mayor for favoring developers over labor unions in his proposed tweaks to a real estate subsidy program.

Committee backers, including the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) and the Partnership for New York City, benefit from a range of policies continued, implemented, or proposed by the Cuomo administration, including low corporate tax rates, subsidies, pension reform, and real estate development plans.

In the run - up to last week's election, activists in Orthodox communities that rely heavily on an endangered city subsidy program for child care seem to have been concerned that Mayor Michael Bloomberg might not renew the program if Orthodox voters didn't back his pick for attorney general.

Cuomo, who had pushed for the revival of 421a earlier in the day at a gathering of the AFL - CIO in New York City, said the now - lapsed program is one big subsidy to begin with when asked whether such a move would be unprecedented in its scope.

There is a particular dilemma in these parts of the country where for the last 10 to 15 years they have been reliant on subsidy from Whitehall, and those subsidies were funded by explosive growth in the City of London.

The plan the PSC initially released did not favor subsidies for the state's only profitable nuclear power plant, Indian Point nearby New York City.

In exchange for taking its parkland, soaking up taxpayer dollars (in the form of subsidies and tax breaks) and bringing more traffic congestion and parking woes to the area, the Yankees (and the city which backed the project) promised to provide local jobs, quickly restore parkland and give back money to community groups and programs on annual basis.

City Council members Oliver Koppell and Annabel Palma may cause an uproar in City Hall, when they propose a bill that guarantees a wage of at least $ 10 for workers of development projects that have received more than $ 100,000 in public subsidies.

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Supporters also claim the city - sponsored study examines the wrong population of projects — it includes an as - of - right subsidy for industrial and commercial properties the bill is not meant to capture.

The city has called on the state Assembly and Senate and Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homelcity has called on the state Assembly and Senate and Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homelCity to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

The budget included gubernatorial priorities including an expanded system of college tuition subsidies, funding for several infrastructure projects and the legalization of ride - hailing outside New York City — among other things.

But even from her party perch, Miner called out Cuomo for his approach to fiscally stressed cities (they should seek savings and consolidation instead of handouts) and direct capital investments to large business subsidy packages as opposed to broader - based infrastructure projects.

The law calls for decreasing federal subsidies for heavily used «disproportionate share hospitals» like Woodhull and the city's other public medical facilities, leaving them in he lurch for millions of dollars.

For more information about our State - administered HCV Program in New York City contact the Subsidy Services Bureau.

In 2015, the de Blasio administration worked to significantly reform the 421 - a law to increase the amount of affordable housing required of every developer receiving the subsidy, require affordability for lower incomes than ever before, and demand affordable housing everywhere in the City.

The speaker also mentioned the $ 6.60 - per - rider subsidy for the the city's new ferry service to tout the subway subsidy that he says will cost $ 212 million per year.

Trump has reaped at least $ 885 million in tax breaks, grants and other subsidies for luxury apartments, hotels and office buildings in New York, according to city tax, housing and finance records.

After getting some blowback for criticizing a program that indirectly benefited her as Miranda Hobbes in the two Sex and the City movies (actors» salaries are not eligible for the subsidies, and the long - running TV show completed filming before the program was created), she made it clear she was serious about the issue, as the New York Post reported:

NY Waterway — which lost a bid to operate the citywide ferry and formerly operated the East River Ferry — runs service on the Hudson River but gets no subsidies from the city to push fares down, a spokesman for the company said.

«If we provide a taxpayer subsidy in exchange for jobs, we should expect jobs that pay a better wage than the minimum wage,» said City Council Speaker Christine Quinn in a statement ahead of the vote.

The grand total in city and state development subsidies for the Empire Outlets and hotel project on the island's North Shore: $ 50 million.