Sentences with phrase «department of housing»

«It's a terrific settlement,» said Deborah Rand, assistant commissioner for housing litigation at the Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Michael Skrebutenas, HCR's Chief Operating Officer, joined New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua and President of Gotham Organization David L. Picket recently to break ground on Gotham West, a mixed - use development encompassing an entire city block in the Clinton neighborhood of Manhattan between West 44th & West 45th Streets and 10th & 11th Avenues.

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.

Commissioner / CEO Towns, Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua, NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC) President Marc Jahr, and other officials joined Michelle de la Uz, Executive Director of the Fifth Avenue Committee (FAC) recently for a ribbon cutting celebration of Atlantic Terrace in Fort Greene.

David Walsh, JPMorgan Chase Bank; Richard Bearak, Office of Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz; Marie Romain, The Center for Family Support, Inc.; Julio Colon, resident; Petal Fong, resident; Martin Dunn, President of Dunn Development Corp.; Erik Martin Dilan, New York City Council Member; Darryl C. Towns, Commissioner / CEO, NYS Homes and Community Renewal; Mathew M. Wambua, Commissioner, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development and Chair, NYC Housing Development Corporation; Michelle Neugebauer, Executive Director, Cypress Hills LDC; Lucy Morcelo, Brooklyn Office of Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez; and Harold Green, Board President, Cypress Hills LDC.

From 1999 - 2001, he worked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, where he served as Special Assistant to the Secretary and later as Assistant General Counsel.

Additional funding partners include the City of Yonkers, TCB, MHACY, RBC Capital Markets, M&T Bank, The Bank of New York Mellon, Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, New York State Energy Research Development Authority, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Commissioner / CEO Towns joined New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Chairman John B. Rhea, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua, New York City Housing Development Corporation (HDC) President Marc Jahr and NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) Commissioner David Burney, and Blue Sea Development principal Les Bluestone and partner, Avery Seavey in February to celebrate the opening of Arbor House.

Walsh also said he would continue to seek United States Department of Housing and Urban Development grants to support initiatives such as the Syracuse Lead Hazard Control Program, which was denied federal funds and eventually shuttered in 2016.

Howe paid for and hosted a fundraiser for Cuomo in December, worked for him as a deputy chief of staff when Cuomo was secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and worked for Cuomo's father, the late Gov. Mario Cuomo, for 10 years as an aide.

Cuomo, a Democrat, specifically noted that Ben Carson, the nominee to lead the department of Housing and Urban Development — which Cuomo helmed in the 1990s under Bill Clinton — had no experience in either housing or urban development and that Andrew Kuzder, the nominee for labor secretary, opposed raising the federal minimum wage.

After Walsh's election victory, the two talked on the phone about their fathers, and how Walsh's father, Jim, a 10 - term Republican congressman, worked across party lines with Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, when he was the secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The information gathered at the forums will assist the County's Department of Environment and Planning in preparing the 2017 Community Development application to the US Department of Housing & Urban Development.

The audit said that the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development often delays or abandons development schedules for turning over the properties, and that «even when H.P.D. moved forward with planned development, it did not meet its stated timelines for nearly half of its projects.»

She said projects funded by the city's Department of Housing Development and Preservation — like La Promesa / Acacia Garden and Lexington Gardens II — set aside 10 to 20 percent of units in this income range.

The move comes just days after the US Department of Housing and Urban Development declared that it wants approval of all expenditures from NYCHA's capital fund.

The news came 15 weeks after Johnson sent a letter to U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Denise Cote, resigning from his position as monitor overseeing Westchester's compliance with a consent decree with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, HUD.

Records from the Department of Housing Preservation and Development show there are 11 open violations from 2012 on a building owned by Dickens and her family at 2155 Adam Clayton Powell Jr..

She says she also sees the plans to be passed by the City Council as a starting point and that she's received commitments from the mayor that agencies such as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development would invest «additional resources» to make projects more affordable.

The administration had simultaneously ordered state agencies to sever contacts with lobbyist Todd Howe, who had worked under Cuomo during his time at the U.S. Department of Housing and urban Development during the 1990s and who had maintained an office at the SUNY Polytechnic campus, a key player in the Buffalo Billion initiative.

For a second day Rob Astorino continued castigating Andrew Cuomo for his comments supporting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in it's continuing dispute with Westchester County, holding a press conference at New Castle's Town Hall.

In August 2016, in response to a request by the Times Union, the executive director of the state Committee on Open Government, Robert Freeman, said in an advisory opinion that Cuomo's office and the state department of Housing and Community Renewal should not hold back from release otherwise public documents based merely on the contention that they might relate to the federal probe of upstate development deals.

The city Department of Housing and Preservation is launching initiatives to better regulate the affordable housing it oversees.

The $ 41.4 million loan from the AFL - CIO will be guaranteed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

There will also be a review of CD Program Performance, as required by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

In the federal criminal case, Percoco and Howe, a lobbyist who previously was an adviser to Cuomo at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, used private email accounts that, according to a person involved in the case, are highly incriminating and on par with a wiretap in terms of their prosecutorial weight.

Fuentes was credited with implementing clearer guidelines for disbursing CDBG funds and correcting past practices which had led to warning letters from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development about compliance with program rules.

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr., today announced that Oneida County's Office of Workforce Development has received a grant from the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to continue its Jobs and Hope Program to provide vocational services to homeless individuals.

Under state law, the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development is supposed to tell well - to - do tenants to leave once their income exceeds 125 percent of the eligibility limit.

Todd Howe, a lobbyist and former advisor to Gov. Andrew Cuomo when they worked for the U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development, solicited bribes from companies that made large donations to Cuomo's

Alma had 1,077 open violations with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development and another 64 with the Buildings Department in eight buildings it manages around the city, according to James» report.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development confirmed Thursday that Syracuse's application was denied, but could not offer an immediate explanation for the rejection.

The governor drew on his personal relationship with the Clintons — Cuomo led President Bill Clinton's Department of Housing and Urban Development — to back up his assessment of Hillary Clinton as someone who would «unify, not divide this nation and move us forward together as one.»

And she requested NYCHA's communications with the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD).

De Blasio, who was a deputy under Cuomo in the Clinton administration's department of Housing and Urban Development, needs the governor to fund many of his agenda items, such as certain Hurricane Sandy relief efforts and his signature political goal of expanding pre-kindergarten to every child by next year.

Azizi had previously missed a deadline from the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development requesting he make repairs by Dec. 17.

The mayor ran Ms. Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign in New York and worked in the Department of Housing and Urban Development for President Bill Clinton.

Special Agent Cary Rubenstein, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Inspector General, said, «The success of today's search warrants and arrests demonstrates the superior commitment level of the state and local law enforcement officers and special agents from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Inspector General.

I used to be the [Department of Housing and Urban Development] secretary, so I supervised NYCHA from the federal level,» he said.

Hakim Azizi, the landlord for 510 W. 218th Street, was issued several violations by the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) on Friday for failing to contract someone for repair work after the fire, including replacing windows and doors, according to Martin Collins, community liaison for City Councilman Robert Jackson.

Glaser, Percoco and Howe all worked for Cuomo at the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has broad influence in the mortgage industry.

She has followed an unconventional career path: seven years as a production supervisor for Steinway Pianos through a two - year stint as Deputy Director for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

The legislation would also place such property owners on a black list maintained by the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

Also at 10:30 a.m., the NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development joins Asian Americans for Equality and Enterprise Community Partners to preserve historic affordable building in Chinatown, 81 Madison St., Manhattan.

Private landlords who have blanket bans on renting to people with criminal records are in violation of the Fair Housing Act and can be sued and face penalties for discrimination, the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development said.

Donald Trump's business, The Trump Organization, is in violation of New York City law, because it is not registered this year with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation & Development.

New York City depends on Washington for a lot of funding, much of that coming from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The head of the city Department of Housing Preservation and Development — which receives 86 percent of its funds from federal grants — said it will see at least $ 20 million vanish from rental assistance programs affecting 39,000 New Yorkers.

US Sen. Chuck Schumer said NYC would be awarded $ 176 million in federal funding for the proposed project, through a national contest created by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to help communities recover from disasters and better prepare for them.

Public housing advocates fear that homelessness and poverty will surge across the country if the Trump administration implements budget cuts outlined in a draft leaked from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.