Sentences with phrase «expanding affordable housing units»
The Cuomo administration announced $ 1.2 million in affordable housing funds are available, a veritable drop in the bucket for a $ 10 billion program aimed at expanding affordable housing units by 2020.
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Meanwhile de Blasio campaigned on record lows on crime, expanding free pre-K and increasing the number of affordable housing units across the city.»
At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.
Shephard said that Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to greatly expand the city's number of affordable housing units provides an opportunity for developers to incorporate solar and clean energy into lower - income neighborhoods.
Since then, its work has expanded to 14 cities in upstate New York and Pennsylvania where more than 1,400 units of affordable housing and over $ 300 million in community investment have improved countless lives and neighborhoods.
Following the tour, Sanders» campaign released his affordable housing agenda that looks to increase federal spending on repairing aging public housing units and expanding counseling programs for first - time homebuyers and those facing foreclosure.
HCR is committed to collaborating with partners, and keeping homes affordable and communities strong by protecting one million rent - regulated units, managing a portfolio of more than 190,000 multifamily units and administering more than $ 1.5 billion each year to expand affordable housing opportunities and build strong communities throughout New York State.
De Blasio has delivered on several of his big first term promises — expanding prekindergarten, raising the city's minimum wage, and building new affordable - housing units.
Over the next five years, the $ 10 billion housing initiative will create and preserve 100,000 affordable housing units across the State, and the $ 10 billion homelessness action plan will create 6,000 new supportive housing beds, 1,000 emergency beds, and a variety of expanded homelessness services.
In New York City, the funding is used almost entirely for housing projects, and under a mayor who has promised to vastly expand the city's affordable housing stock by creating and preserving 200,000 units over a decade, that pattern was not going to change.
Expanding the Land Trust portfolio to include 9 rental units and 5 additional properties to ensure affordable single family housing.
A portion of this money would go to construction of new affordable housing units, although the majority of it will expand on the current focus on renovation and repair of existing affordable housing, as well as measures to support housing affordability such as rent supplements.