Sentences with phrase «for more council houses»

He said the party had focused on local issues including the need for more council houses, the introduction of a # 40 charge for green refuse removal but said that concerns about immigration were also a frequent subject of conversation on the doorstep.

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Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill aimed to hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the epidemic and force them to help pay for the crisis, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated cost more than $ 500 billion in 2015..

Cupertino's commitment to meeting its RHNA and to creating more opportunities for affordable housing is reflected in various policies adopted and championed by the City Council.

With all these great benefits to individuals, communities, and businesses comes one more boon: the White House Council of Economic Advisors reports that by increasing productivity and job satisfaction, work flexibility is good for our economy at large.

According to the National Multifamily Housing Council, renters account for more than one third of all U.S. households.

As the wife of Saeed Abedini, the 33 - year - old Iranian - American pastor imprisoned for more than 250 days, testifies before the United Nations's Human Rights Council today, the White House has issued its strongest statement yet advocating for Abedini's release.

Council houses are so much more than just a stop gap, they provide stable homes for families.

Sir Steve Bullock, the Labour mayor of Lewisham and housing spokesperson for London Councils, told politics.co.uk that more and more families were being forced into bed and breakfast accommodation, paid for by the taxpayer, as a result of the changes.

Also on the republican list of demands: abolition of the Privy Council; full proportional representation in elections for the House of Commons; decentralisation of power to local and community authorities; a voting age of 16; fixed - term parliaments; state funding of political parties; a ban on outside earnings for MPs; more powerful Commons select committees, with powers to confirm or block ministerial appointments; elected police chiefs and elected mayors in all the major cities.

City Council member Corey Johnson, speaking for the group, said they asked for three things: An emergency declaration to waive the usual contracting requirements in order to speed housing repairs, an overall quicker contracting process for construction, and more money.

In the 7th Council District Mark has fought for safer streets, faster bus service, better schools, cleaner parks, more affordable housing, and development which fits the scale and context of the neighborhood.

The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

Even more worrying is the connected deal Capco struck with Hammersmith and Fulham for two council housing estates in the Earl's Court scheme, a deeply unpopular and flawed scheme.

The Council is crafting a bill that would require online home - sharing companies to provide the Mayor's Office of Special Enforcement with the addresses of their listings — a potential blow to Airbnb if its users are revealed to be turning rent - regulated apartments into business enterprises in a city starved for more housing.

The Sherman Plaza developers, Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust, need approval from the Council for the spot rezoning to include more affordable housing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninhousing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoninHousing (MIH) rezoning plan.

Miliband will also back proposals for local councils to be given more control of the ballooning housing benefit budget.

New York City Council Speaker Cory Johnson and Majority Leader Laurie Cumbo announced the package of 10 bills on Sunday and said the measures would be introduced this week... The proposals include: Requiring businesses with more than 15 employees to provide lactation spaces and refrigerators to store breast milk, Requiring lactation rooms in all schools, police precincts, and jails that house women or allow women visitors, Assessing the need for free and low - cost doula services in the city, Creating a report on maternal mortality, Requiring that inmates be able to choose the gender of their doctor, Requiring the city to provide diapers at shelters, subsidized child care centers and other locations, Creating a study and pilot program for on - site childcare for city employees, Allowing campaign funds to be used for certain childcare costs of candidates who are primary caregivers» http://bit.ly/2jTiAtZ

Council calls herself «fresh leadership,» and is calling for a $ 15 an hour minimum wage, supports the DREAM act and affordable housing, renter protection, increased school funding and more afterschool programs.

In this article, a housing options officer who has worked in London and Greater London councils for more than 15 years opens up about the grubby realities of council homelessness services on a troubled frontline.

The City Council had one response to Mayor Bill de Blasio's sweeping proposals to rezone the city for more affordable housing: this is not enough.

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.»

What's more, members of the State Senate, House of Delegates and Montgomery City Council have little to risk by running because they are not standing for re-election until 2018.

Conservative groups including the Family Research Council and National Organization for Marriage fired off a letter last week to Boehner, National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) Chairman Greg Walden (Ore.) and Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellGOP lawmakers want Trump to stop bashing Congress Parkland father calls out Trump, McConnell, Ryan after Santa Fe shooting Overnight Finance: House rejects farm bill in conservative revolt NAFTA deal remains elusive as talks drag on Dodd - Frank rollback set for House vote MORE (Ky.) chiding them for backing DeMaio and Tisei, as well as Senate hopeful Monica Wehby (Ore.), who supports gay marriage.

The councilmember from the 8th Council District, which includes part of the south Bronx, will talk with host Gary Axelbank about a range of crime and policing issues, including the notion of decriminalizing low - level crimes, policing reforms, and the request for 1,000 more cops, as well as Bronx developments, including the Harlem River waterfront, Jerome Avenue Study, FreshDirect relocation subsidies, and housing.

Council Member King, who reviewed his 12 - Point Plan for the 12TH Council District with more than 700 Bronx residents, friends and special guests in attendance, discussed upcoming and future projects, which include affording housing for working families through a partnership with Habitat for Humanity, the renovation of Agnes Haywood Park, capital funding to schools in the 12th Council District, expense funding to community - based organizations, funding for NYCHA developments and youth programs as well as DOT and DSNY needs in the 12th Council District.

I look forward to the answers and to local councils pushing ahead with these proposals that I believe will lead to more houses being built for those that we all know desperately need them.

Our Housing White Paper set out plans to increase it further, ensuring councils release more land for housing, and giving them new powers to ensure that developers actually build homes once they're given planning permission toHousing White Paper set out plans to increase it further, ensuring councils release more land for housing, and giving them new powers to ensure that developers actually build homes once they're given planning permission tohousing, and giving them new powers to ensure that developers actually build homes once they're given planning permission to do so.

The think tank Policy in Practice told the committee that the benefit cap more than doubles the average gap between housing benefit and rent for families in temporary housing, leaving councils to plug the gap.

A proposal by de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle, emerging from a NYC Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.

London Councils, which represents local authorities in the capital, warned the committee: «It will be increasingly unviable for households to avoid the cap by moving to lower value areas (including areas outside of London) given that housing costs will be more widely unaffordable.»

Edward Ott, a labor expert at CUNY and former executive director of the New York City Central Labor Council, said that Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York's agreement may encourage more developers to hire union workers for affordable housing projects.

The mayor also defended Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito's record on affordable housing when asked how ideologically in sync she is with him and whether he expects her to play more of a role in whipping support from members for such projects.

The boards, which are appointed by the mayor, City Council and borough presidents, have criticized the rezoning plans as not providing enough housing that is affordable to the actual income levels of people in the neighborhoods and for fear that it would spark more gentrification and overcrowding.

Mayor Bill de Blasio won a second term in a landslide on Tuesday, bringing four more years of Democratic rule to New York City as Council members hope for more action on key issues such as police reform, affordable housing and education.

After City Council member Rosie Mendez spent Tuesday afternoon defending the New York City Housing Authority from recent negative press, Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez is calling for the release of a report that could bring more critical scrutiny to the authority.

Monserrate, who served in both the council and the state Senate, has joined Lewis to push for more affordable housing at Willets Point, rather than a planned mega-mall.

In a rare win for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the City Council voted on March 17 in favor of his sweeping plans to rezone New York to create more affordable housing.

The Labour leader was right, for example, to emphasise the need to boost research and development, improve skill levels and invest in transport while his pledge to allow councils to borrow to build more homes would help unlock more of the funding they need to address housing shortages.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, representing the group, said they asked for three things: an emergency declaration to waive the usual contracting requirements in order to speed housing repairs, an overall quicker contracting process for construction and more money.

London Council's Executive member for housing councillor Jamie Carswell has warned London needs more social housing.

With the selling off of council houses making it even more difficult for families to find suitable accommodation, Mr Draper insisted that the Prime Minister should give up his residence at the publicly owned Chequers — one of at least three the Prime Minister enjoys, and have it converted into affordable flats for ordinary families.

Quinn also presided over the council's approval of Bloomberg's Willets Point redevelopment in exchange for more affordable housing — delivering a higher percentage of affordable units than initially planned, though far less than opponents sought.

For example, Ken Clarke had to weigh up not cutting as much as he could from legal advice services, or cutting legal advice and costing the Government more money than if it had left legal advice alone - for under # 100, a family could receive advice on a housing problem from a Citizen's Advice Bureau that could prevent a council having to spend thousands of pounds to house the aforementioned family later For example, Ken Clarke had to weigh up not cutting as much as he could from legal advice services, or cutting legal advice and costing the Government more money than if it had left legal advice alone - for under # 100, a family could receive advice on a housing problem from a Citizen's Advice Bureau that could prevent a council having to spend thousands of pounds to house the aforementioned family later for under # 100, a family could receive advice on a housing problem from a Citizen's Advice Bureau that could prevent a council having to spend thousands of pounds to house the aforementioned family later on.

The Saratoga Springs city council has decided to take more time to consider a proposal to that would allow for more affordable housing to be built within the city.

On last night's BronxTalk featuring Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito, show host Gary Axelbank asked her about the decriminalization of low - level crimes, the need for 1,000 new cops, the Jerome Avenue Study, Harlem River development, FreshDirect, a variety of housing issues, and more.

A proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle on Monday, emerging from a City Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.

The Council altered de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals to make them include more affordable housing and more parking in areas with poor access to public transportation, but these changes was not enough to satisfy some Bronx lHousing and Zoning for Quality and Affordability proposals to make them include more affordable housing and more parking in areas with poor access to public transportation, but these changes was not enough to satisfy some Bronx lhousing and more parking in areas with poor access to public transportation, but these changes was not enough to satisfy some Bronx leaders.

The call for more stringent oversight came during a Council Speaker's forum at Al Sharpton's National Action Network headquarters where all eight of the candidates attacked the Housing Authority.

Council members and advocacy groups are fighting for deeper levels of affordable housing in the plan and de Blasio received a victory over the weekend when a leading critic of the proposals, Real Affordability for All, agreed to endorse the plan in exchange for a study to determine ways to make the proposals more affordable.

Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced a new compromise with Mayor Bill de Blasio that will allow his sweeping plans to create affordable housing across the city to go forward — but with even more requirements for developers to build below - market apartments.