Sentences with phrase «council house tenants»

The right to buy for council house tenants has been enshrined in law for 30 years.

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Much of his account focuses on the work of the representatives of the Local Advisory Council (LAC), a tenant organization that mediated between the residents and the Chicago Housing Authority, local police and other outside institutions.

The plans mean new tenants will lose the right to live in a council house for life and instead local authorities will be able set a fixed term tenancy of between two and five years.

At the start of the 1980s, local authorities were one of the biggest direct providers of housing: Right to Buy and other policies, such as the right for tenants to opt for management by an «approved landlord» rather than the council under the Housing Act 1988, were intended to transform them into «enablers&housing: Right to Buy and other policies, such as the right for tenants to opt for management by an «approved landlord» rather than the council under the Housing Act 1988, were intended to transform them into «enablers&Housing Act 1988, were intended to transform them into «enablers».

«Whilst we welcome the government's commitment to tackle our housing crisis, today's announcement falls far short of the quarter of a million new homes we need each year just to meet demand... We are concerned that schemes to help first - time buyers and council tenants will simply encourage people to overextend themselves, while doing nothing to address the sky - high cost of housing.»

When the government talks about its «pay to stay» policy, ministers usually point to all those greedy social housing tenants who earn mega bucks but continue living in a council house.

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.

Since 2011, Keith has worked for City Council Speaker Peter Vallone, Sr. helping to advocate for after school funding, expanded Advanced Placement, prevent bullying of LGBT students in public schools, secure funding for employment and workforce programs, create new affordable housing, and preserve the quality of life on the Upper East Side, In 2006, Keith was the tenant organizer for the «Preserve Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village» campaign during the sale of the neighborhood to Tishman Speyer.

The Citywide Council of Presidents, which represents tenants, is demanding an independent monitor of the housing authority.

Under the scheme tenants who have been in a council house over five years receive a 35 % discount, with an additional one per cent for each added year up to a maximum of # 75,000.

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After hearing from both the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority administration and its management company, Common Council members are no closer to understanding how some public housing tenants were left without heat and hot water in the middle of Housing Authority administration and its management company, Common Council members are no closer to understanding how some public housing tenants were left without heat and hot water in the middle of housing tenants were left without heat and hot water in the middle of winter.

Mr. Hollobone: Council tenants in the borough of Kettering pay # 12 million a year in council rent, # 3 million of which goes into the Treasury coffers and is not reinvested in council housing in KetCouncil tenants in the borough of Kettering pay # 12 million a year in council rent, # 3 million of which goes into the Treasury coffers and is not reinvested in council housing in Ketcouncil rent, # 3 million of which goes into the Treasury coffers and is not reinvested in council housing in Ketcouncil housing in Kettering.

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.

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.

David's missive asserted that Johnson had agreed that the city should kick in $ 400 million toward the MTA's emergency construction plan — against de Blasio's wishes — and that the state would withhold $ 200 million in funding from the Housing Authority until the mayor, council and tenant leaders picked a private contractor to undertake repairs.

From his time working at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton administration to his work on the City Council to reform 421a and end discrimination against Section 8 tenants to his work as Public Advocate to crack down on bad landlords, no one has done more to fight for affordable safe housing for all New Yorkers.housing for all New Yorkers.»

Buffalo's Common Council is starting yet another look at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority after the heat went out for tenants at the Frederick Douglass Towers and it took a long time to get it back on.

Additionally, she supports pending legislation authored by Council Members Mark Levine and Vanessa Gibson that would provide attorneys for low income tenants in Housing Court.

City Council contender Bob Friedrich defended a letter he sent last month as president of the Glen Oaks Village Co-op's board to the housing community's tenants after his opponent, state Assemblyman Mark Weprin (D - Little Neck), accused him of using the co-op's official letterhead to promote his candidacy.

«What we want to do is go to communities where there are sink estates... and agree with those councils, those local people and make sure tenants get good homes, make sure homeowners get rehoused in new houses, that's exactly what we want.»

Money «drives the whole process,» said Kenny Schaeffer, co-chairman of the Metropolitan Council on Housing, a New York City tenants» rights group.

Per the governor's executive order, the outside party must be chosen in 60 days by a unanimous vote of de Blasio, the City Council speaker and the head of a citywide coalition of tenant presidents, who happen to be suing the mayor's administration over conditions at the housing authority.

After these breaks were enacted, Michael McKee, treasurer of the Tenants Political Action Committee wrote a column for the Metropolitan Council on Housing's website that the renewal passed the Assembly smoothly after «a clear message from the Speaker that he was pushing this bill through, even though many members were unhappy with pieces of it.»

The measure would only apply to new council tenants at first but Ms Flint refused to rule out extending it to all social housing tenants.

The head of the NYC Council's Public Housing Committee, Bronx Councilman Richie Torres, will propose a new law requiring NYCHA to clean up all apartments with lead paint instead of waiting for tenants to move out.

The LibDems and Tories should promise low - income, public sector tenants that they will bring back a programme of heavily discounted council house sales.

The NYC Housing Authority is getting $ 3 billion to repair Hurricane Sandy damage, and two Council members want to track that money to make sure a chunk goes to jobs for NYCHA tenants.

As such, the arrangements grew to be highly complex, and were consolidated for council tenants in 1972 under the National Rent Rebate Scheme, and for private and housing association tenants in 1973 under the parallel Rent Allowance Scheme.

Although the aims of the campaigns vary, the one thing they have in common is a fight against councils or housing associations to protect the homes and rights of social housing tenants.

The monitor will be picked by the City Council and public housing tenant leaders in consultation with Mayor de Blasio.

It is unlikely all of them will be on the ballot at the time of the primary, but of the ones that appeared before us, we should be aware that Rosie Mendez, an attorney, former tenant advocate specializing in housing issues, and District Leader, leads the pack, with the strongest organization and a battery of endorsements by government leaders including Reps. Velázquez & Maloney, Assemblymembers Glick & Sanders, Senators Connor & Krueger, Council Member Christine Quinn and many of the state committee members and district leaders from all over the Lower East Side and the East Side.

NEW YORK CITY — Illegal hotel complaints increased 62 percent last year because short - term rental sites such as Airbnb are violating the law, hurting efforts to provide affordable housing and placing the safety of legal tenants at risk, elected officials said Tuesday during a marathon City Council hearing.

Council housing is now on sale to tenants at a 75 % discount: once sold, many homes are snapped up by rack - renting landlords for multi-occupying itinerant workers who destabilise the community.

Flanked by Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority tenants in front of the Marine Drive complex where he lives Wednesday afternoon, the retired construction company owner and worker says he is not going to quit as a BMHA tenant commissioner and won't abandon the Council campaign.

In addition to supporting the legislation in the current Council session for accessible ferries and taxis, Gerson introduced a housing preservation measure for Section 8 and public housing tenants so that they can have the right of first refusal to buy their apartments if they go on the market, and is gearing up to introduce «grab - bar» legislation so that seniors and people with disabilities can have accessible, safe bathrooms in their residences.

The monitor will be picked in consultation with the City Council and public housing tenant leaders — but not with any input from Mayor de Blasio.

The Metropolitan Council on Housing is hoping to eliminate loop holes like that one that drive up tenants rent.

The alliance of anti-Glen groups includes New York Communities for Change, the Met Council on Housing, the Black Institute, Tenants PAC and six others.

True, people who had bought council houses between 1983 and 1992 were less likely than local authority tenants to have voted Labour.

The Tory government's council house sales, involving more than 1.5 m tenants, greatly increased owner - occupation in Britain.

«I was thrilled to see such a diverse range of residents in my district participating in the process this year including formerly incarcerated youth, public housing tenants, and members of our immigrant community,» said Council Member Melissa Mark - Viverito.

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.

It applies to tenants living in council - controlled or housing association properties and is a change to housing benefit entitlement.

«This money greases the wheels for the tax breaks and weaker rent laws that hurt tenants and taxpayers,» said Ava Farkas, executive director of the Metropolitan Council on Housing.

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

Things are even trickier with housing where Tory policies such as «pay to stay», Right to Buy for housing association tenants, and forced sales of high value council homes, have all made things worse while claiming to make things better.

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.