Sentences with phrase «giveaway to developers»

-LSB-...] program, which housing advocates see as a giveaway to developers, previously required developers to market affordable units to residents of the surrounding -LSB-...]

Tenant groups regard the exemption, called 421a, as a giveaway to developers.

The program, which housing advocates see as a giveaway to developers, previously required developers to market affordable units to residents of the surrounding neighborhood before the rest of the city.

I am not interested in passing a program that is a giveaway to developers.»

But last week, after Cuomo said de Blasio had arrived in Albany too late to lobby for his version of the 421 - a plan that Cuomo called a «giveaway to developers,» de Blasio issued his harshest public comments.

Housing advocates dispute that, saying that the abatement is nothing but a giveaway to developers and that they would not stop constructing housing without it.

But I am not interested in passing a program that is a giveaway to the developers.»

«The city has a package that is criticized as being too rich to the developers and a giveaway to the developers, and you're not paying the workers a fair wage,» Cuomo said Thursday after touring a state prison here.

He then said few people even understand 421 - a, which was first established in the 1970s to spur development in the city and has been criticized by some as a giveaway to developers.

«The city has a package that is criticized as being too rich to the developers and a giveaway to the developers, and you're not paying the workers a fair wage,» Cuomo said Thursday after touring an upstate prison.

In an uncharacteristic move, Governor Andrew Cuomo characterized Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposed 421a reform package as a giveaway to developers that fails to protect workers.

Critics have condemned the program as a giveaway to developers, while builders contend that little rental housing would be built in New York without it because of high taxes and land and construction costs.

«The city has a package that is criticized as being too rich to the developers and a giveaway to the developers, and you're not paying the workers a fair wage,» Cuomo said last week.

De Blasio said it was «disingenuous» for Cuomo to call the mayor's proposed reforms to the 421 - a tax break program «a giveaway to the developers.»

The governor has called de Blasio's proposal to reform 421a «a giveaway to developers,» while the mayor said that response was «disingenuous.»

«The city has a package that is criticized as being too rich to the developers and a giveaway to the developers, and you're not paying the workers a fair wage,» Cuomo said Thursday.

«421 - a in the past was a giveaway to developers and it often funded luxury housing,» de Blasio said on Friday morning's The Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC.