Sentences with phrase «housing authorities have»

In addition, certain local Housing Authorities have instituted programs to purchase market rate properties and then self - impose rent restrictions to make these properties affordable to households earning 80 percent of AMI or below.

While some communities welcome the government taking more responsibility for the delivery of housing, others are concerned that public housing authorities have failed to deliver for Indigenous people and believe a community housing organisation can better meet their needs.

Housing authorities have a tough job in balancing scarce resources fairly in line with the extensive and pervasive body of applicable law.

But other housing authorities have received money from the state through competitive grant programs.

Other housing authorities have access to state funds, but they have to either apply for funding from a statewide program or compete for grants.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration offered the testing after a Department of Investigation probe last year found the city's housing authority had failed to conduct lead inspections for four years, violating city law and federal rules.

The former long - time head of the Niagara Falls Housing Authority has been sentenced to two years probation and a $ 2,000 fine for stealing government funds.

De Blasio said the housing authority has about $ 27 million earmarked in the current budget for cameras that have yet to be installed.

The long - troubled Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority has a new majority on its board, with four new members appointed by Mayor Byron Brown and immediately confirmed by the Common Council.

The former head of the Niagara Falls Housing Authority has admitted to theft charges, U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced.

The New York City Housing Authority has launched an emergency effort to inspect for lead in units with small children.

The housing authority has partnered with the Department of Buildings and the Department of Environmental Protection to replace the boilers under the recent $ 200 million allocated by Mayor Bill de Blasio.

Developing land owned by the New York City Housing Authority has the potential to generate much - needed revenue for the public housing agency while simultaneously creating more affordable housing, but those benefits drop off abruptly in less affluent neighborhoods, according to a report released today by NYU's Furman Center.

In his first interview about his agency's controversial purchase of Mint X rat - repellent trash bags, Parks Commissioner Mitchell Silver told The Post he had no idea when giving a $ 15,000 contract to JAD Corp. of America in spring 2015 that the city Housing Authority had canned the liners in January 2012 after its workers complained their pungent smell was making them nauseous.

The New York City Housing Authority has a pilot program that allows tenants to report rent payments, but as of last week it only had «one person on board,» NYCHA senior advisor Tischelle George said.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's executive order earlier this month to impose an external monitor on the crisis - plagued New York City Housing Authority has turned into a potential budget boondoggle for the city, with Mayor Bill de Blasio warning on Thursday of the «unforeseen consequences» the order could have on the city's fiscal future.

Many residents in NYCHA housing have expressed frustration with how the housing authority has been handling their lead issues.

The measure would come after more than 320,000 people have been left without heat or hot water this winter and following months of revelations that the housing authority had failed to conduct inspections for lead paint as required by federal rules and city law for four years.

But while the House authorities have previously published breakdowns of hundreds of thousands of pounds of his expenses since 2009, they have not always been complete.

However, the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority has not had the funds to re-open them.

The Housing Authority has come under scrutiny for its failure to conduct lead paint inspections for four years and then filing false reports stating that the inspections were completed.

The embattled New York City Housing Authority has signed an agreement to update regularly the City Council on how it uses taxpayer funds, the New York Daily News reported.

The New York City Housing Authority has released details of its plan to lease public housing land for private market - rate development, the New York Times reported.

Ms. Olatoye pointed out that the housing authority has a waiting list of 250,000 families and a vacancy rate of.7 percent, with only 5,000 units opening up each year.

Over this past seven years, Tlingit - Haida Regional Housing Authority has provided home loan assistance in the area of $ 8.5 Million to over 70 Alaska Native and American Indian first - time homebuyers.

That being said perhaps HUD Housing Urban Development and FHA Fair Housing Authority have seen the light as the mortgage loan limits for an FHA mortgage have remain unchanged from the 2013 mortgage loan limits.

The federal Housing Authority has permitted streamline refinances on insured mortgages.

The Federal Housing Authority has shortened the mandatory waiting periods for an Kentucky FHA - insured mortgage loan for those who have undergone foreclosure, deed - in - lieu, taken a short sale or declared bankruptcy during the economic recession.

The Federal Housing Authority has been promoting home ownership in Texas and across the US for more than 75 years.

The Housing Authority had a 1992 letter from the plaintiff's doctor stating that she had elevated levels of lead in her blood, but it was not enough to put the Housing Authority on notice that there was a problem with lead paint in its residential housing.

The court also made it clear that the housing authority has to consider more than just the size, structural quality and the amenities of alternative accommodation under consideration.

Each individual housing authority has the power to establish an administrative plan approved by HUD.

Once you have purchase the property the Housing Authority has documents to be completed to transfer the ownership.

The draft also describes how a panel created by the housing authority would take into account possible mitigating factors for applicants with criminal histories, like employment, the completion of drug rehab or volunteer work.

By then it was evident that massive public housing projects were not working; by 2000 the Chicago Housing Authority would call for the demolition of all of its high - rise developments.

For ex: I have a section 8 tenant (one of my best tenants) who has been with me for several year, the housing authority has denied every attempt of a rent increase each year for even an amount as low as $ 5 (yes $ 5 bucks, I was testing them).

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The organization said HUD also should have gone further and applied the ban to electronic cigarettes, though local housing authorities are permitted to do so.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

Because McDonald's had done its research and knew that within three months of the purchase or lease of that land the local development authority would be approving a mixed - use high - rise community situated adjacent to McDonald's new location that would house over 20,000 residents.

Authorities say they have arrested a man suspected of storming a Waffle House restaurant in Nashville and fatally shooting four people with an assault rifle.»

«When the town asks regional authorities for funding for a project, it's told: you have Rusal, go work it out with them,» said Erik Chernyshev, a local Communist Party politician, former member of the region's upper house, who also worked as an engineer at the factory for 18 years.

How would you feel if authorities contacted you to reveal that your teenage daughter, who told you she was spending the night at a friend's house, had just been rescued from a potential online predator?

President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act hours after the White House press secretary released a statement saying the administration supported the law and opposed an amendment that would impose limits on the government's surveillance authority.

«The best thing we can do is to support the transition of the Canadian economy and leave it to the authorities who have the macroprudential tools related to the housing market.»

Underscoring the breadth of the scrutiny, the people said, the Justice Department and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have discussed the possibility of striking a wide - ranging settlement to conclude many of the looming mortgage investigations from federal authorities and state attorneys general.

According to figures from the Financial Conduct Authority, released by the House of Commons» Treasury Select Committee in September, 5,476 UK firms have at least one passport that allows them to do business in other EU and European Economic Area nations.

The White House is declining to offer public support for long - awaited legislation that would give federal judges clearer authority to order technology companies like Apple to help law enforcement crack encrypted data, according to sources familiar with the discussions.

But what they didn't do was also noticeable: They didn't threaten to take back the president's authority to set tariffs that Congress had ceded to the White House over the past few decades (regardless of the Constitution's stipulation that the Congress set tariffs).

One of Canada's foremost authorities on Canadian social housing, Dr. Greg Suttor, has just authored a book on the history of Canadian social housing policy.

Crapo, chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, emphasized that the Federal Reserve would still have the authority to apply tougher standards for banks with between $ 100 billion and $ 250 billion in assets.