Sentences with phrase «goal of affordable housing»

Though virtually all stakeholders support the general goal of affordable housing, their concerns are over the specifics.

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Seattle's goal is to raise $ 75 million from taxes, three - fourths of which will be used to build 1,800 affordable housing units in the city.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

The USDA has programs across with the nations which target rural communities, with the goal of helping residents obtain affordable housing.

Eastman Gardens is part of Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion statewide House NY program, whose goal is to create or preserve 14,300 affordable units by 2018.

The project advances the goals of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York: A Five - Borough, 10 - Year Housing Plan to create and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10Housing New York: A Five - Borough, 10 - Year Housing Plan to create and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10Housing Plan to create and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10housing units over the next 10 years.

2015 marks the third year of Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion statewide House NY program, whose goal is to create or preserve 14,300 affordable units by 2018.

One of the De Blasio administration's core initiatives is its Housing New York plan, created in 2014 with the goal of adding or preserving 200,000 affordable units for New Yorkers by 2022.

Mr. de Blasio, in pursuit of his goal to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing in a decade, wanted Albany to renew the tax credit but require all developers getting it to build affordable housing, no matter where their development was, and also wanted the program to include a mansion tax on sales of residences worth $ 1.75 million or more.

Community benefits include meeting locally defined goals such as affordable or senior housing, creating or retaining career opportunities, leveraging public / private investment, or generation of additional sources of revenue for local communities.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

Though speeches were generally brief — in part as a kindness to those who attended the outdoor ceremony on a bitterly cold day — each speaker managed to hit on that idea of fairness as the goal for the next four years, whether by creating and preserving affordable housing or ensuring that «equal pay for equal work» isn't merely a slogan.

I applaud the Mayor's far - reaching 10 - year plan to build and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units throughout our city, and the Church in all boroughs of New York City looks forward to continuing to work with NYC and Mayor de Blasio to help achieve this important affordable housing goal,» said His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York.

By pairing affordable housing with increased access to affordable health resources, St. Barnabas is making a huge leap forward to advance our goal of improving quality of life for all,» said HPD Commissioner Vicki Been.

The property tax relief fits in with the mayor's goal of making housing affordable, Ignizio said, by preventing storm victims from being priced out by tax bills after making expensive repairs.

The mayor has said his proposed changes will help him reach a goal of building 80,000 new units of affordable housing, and preserving another 120,000, over the next decade.

Developers argue the tax break is necessary for the city to build affordable housing and meet Mr. de Blasio's ambitious construction goals, especially as the cost of land skyrockets.

It estimated the city would need to issue an additional $ 4.2 billion in subsidies to meet its goal of creating 80,000 new units of affordable housing.

The plan would also aid Mayor de Blasio's goal to add or hold on to 200,000 units of affordable housing, Adams told the New York Daily News.

«The renovation of the Woodrow Wilson Townhomes marks an important step in achieving our goal of more affordable housing for residents in the City of Amsterdam.

On topic questions included whether the administration plans to increase low - income affordable housing production, what actions are required for the administration to count a unit of housing as «preserved», whether housing built with 421 (a) tax credits anywhere in the City should require affordable units, how the de Blasio administration counts housing underway at the end of the Bloomberg administration toward its goal, what was done in this housing complex to «preserve» these units, whether units counted as «preserved» are always on a 30 year agreement, the annual average of 20,000 units created or preserved as set forth in the mayor's ten year goal of 200,000 such units and how money was spent on the 17,000 units created or preserved in 2014.

I was proud to be a part of creating thousands of units of affordable housing in the City Council and look forward to continuing that goal.»

But just a few months later, Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, which is both the most dramatic of those changes and the linchpin of the mayor's ambitious goal to build 80,000 units of affordable housing in the next 10 years, has encountered major stumbling blocks, calling into question its efficacy as an engine of Housing, which is both the most dramatic of those changes and the linchpin of the mayor's ambitious goal to build 80,000 units of affordable housing in the next 10 years, has encountered major stumbling blocks, calling into question its efficacy as an engine of housing in the next 10 years, has encountered major stumbling blocks, calling into question its efficacy as an engine of change.

The on - topic and off - topic questions in the Q&A portion of the press conference included: the project status when de Blasio took office and how his approach to affordable housing differs from Mayor Bloomberg, whether there are any differences in Phase I of the project as being initiated now versus as approved by the Bloomberg administration, what he sees as a realistic percentage of units being «affordable» in projects located closer to or in Manhattan, whether he counts this project towards his goal of 200,000 affordable units, the NYPD officer recently arrested in India, the status of speed camera approvals from Albany, the FOIL delays and responses which did not produce any emails or documents in the Findlayter case, the NYPD / FDNY hockey brawl, Queens Library President Thomas Galante and the newly elected leadership of NYSUT (the state teachers union).

Reynoso — who scored around 6,452 votes over Torres» 3,527, or 64 percent — will likely get another four years to promote affordable housing in the district, a community - driven rezoning in Bushwick and reforming the sanitation industry with the goal of cutting down truck traffic.

The two proposals, Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA) and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH), are considered crucial to de Blasio's goal of creating 80,000 new affordable housing units and preserving an additional 1Housing (MIH), are considered crucial to de Blasio's goal of creating 80,000 new affordable housing units and preserving an additional 1housing units and preserving an additional 120,000.

East New York is the first of 15 neighborhoods that the de Blasio administration plans to rezone to reach his goal of adding or preserving 200,000 affordable housing units in 10 years.

Under the plan, the city would use public financing to help nonprofits buy roughly a third of the apartments currently used for the homeless, and then convert the apartments into affordable units, helping the mayor fulfill two goals: lowering homelessness and adding to the city's affordable housing stock.

The de Blasio administration's «Mandatory Inclusionary Housing» program would require some new construction to include permanently affordable housing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior hHousing» program would require some new construction to include permanently affordable housing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior hhousing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior housinghousing.

A City Hall spokesman said «polls go up and polls go down» but that the mayor is focused on his goals of keeping the city safe and creating more affordable housing, among other things.

The most comprehensive affordable housing plan in the City's history and largest municipal housing plan in the nation, its goal is to create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing for very low - and middle income families to help address New York City's affordability crisis.

The city is accelerating its plan to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing and boosting the end goal by 100,000 apartments, de Blasio announced.

Also at 11 a.m., the de Blasio administration releases the Housing New York 2.0 plan, laying out new tools and programs to build and preserve affordable homes for 300,000 New York families, up from the previously announced goal of 200,000 homes, 1561 Walton Ave., the Bronx.

However, 60 % of those are already built and the goal is to «preserve» them as affordable housing, renovating and repairing them as necessary.

Amid some uncertainty about how the city would achieve Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable - housing goals without the program known as 421 - a, and how developers would finance their projects, one thing seemed clear: The immediate prospects of Albany lawmakers restoring the program looked bleak.

Mayor de Blasio, in a letter on October 7 responding to the coalition, wrote that he shares «the same values and goals: to build safe, clean, and affordable housing for all of our families at a faster rate than we have ever done.»

The state will also have a goal of making 500,000 new homes more energy efficient, including state - owned affordable housing units.

CIVIC CENTER — The city is «under budget» and «ahead of schedule» on its affordable housing goals, officials said on Tuesday — but because of Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Albany's inaction on restoring the popular 421 - a tax break for developers, crucial elements of their housing plan are «definitely at risk.»

If the goal is to build affordable housing, then requesting contempt of court orders and seeking penalties is completely counterproductive — the litigation will only slow the process down and make it more difficult in the future for municipalities to provide affordable housing.»

One goal of the rezoning would be to require at least 45 % affordable housing in new projects, through the city's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing Programhousing in new projects, through the city's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing ProgramHousing Program (MIH).

Mr. Blake is a proponent of affordable housing, the aspirations of the working class and other progressive goals.

«The larger citywide goal of a robust affordable housing policy was blocked by narrower neighborhood concerns and that's unfortunate,» Yassky said.

De Blasio also justified the activities of the Campaign for One New York, now the subject of a federal probe, asserting he had gotten the prior approval of the city Conflict of Interest Board and that the nonprofit had proved crucial to promoting the «laudable goals» of universal prekindergarten and affordable housing.

The Brooklyn Democrat said yesterday that he would not allow new residences for the poor to go up in the right - leaning borough — in spite of Mayor Bill de Blasio's ambitious goal to create or maintain 200,000 units of affordable housing citywide.

The city is accelerating its plan to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing and boosting the end goal by 100,000 apartments, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday.

In the federal court order, Cote stated that the county's campaign to encourage support for affordable housing has been inadequate thus far — that Westchester County «sought to undercut public confidence in the consent decree... [in a] concerted effort to influence public opinion against the settlement and its stated goal of improving communities.»

As the de Blasio administration seeks to meet its ambitious affordable housing goals and, in that effort, pass significant changes to the city's zoning rules, Diaz Jr. has emerged as the loudest opponent of the plans, further ruffling feathers at City Hall after several previous high - profile disagreements this year.

In 2015, we brought together a diverse group of housing agencies and educators to meet an ambitious goal: establish standards for quality expanded learning programs that speak to the unique needs and challenges of providing services to youth in public and affordable housing communities.

Through our residential program, we provide a safe, affordable, and supportive community for young adults who are at risk of homelessness, helping them set and work toward career, housing and education goals.

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