Sentences with phrase «hundreds of affordable units»

«As our city faces a crisis in affordable housing, it is shocking that a city - run program is allowing hundreds of affordable units to remain vacant,» she said in a statement.

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The most pressing matter is the construction of hundreds of units of affordable housing.

We can build hundreds of units of affordable housing (a good thing by the way) and people still might not have homes.

Since then, we've had 6 straight years of IDC - Republican control of the Senate; that's 6 budgets where thousands were held unjustly in pre-trial confinement, nearly a hundred thousand units of affordable housing were lost, and millions of kids attended underfunded schools.

Stringer's report criticized the city for holding onto hundreds of vacant land parcels, which his office estimated could be used for about 50,000 units of affordable housing.

Also at 10 a.m., Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams unveils more than $ 2 million in Fiscal Year 2016 funds to construct and preserve hundreds of affordable housing units across Brooklyn, Calvary Community Church, 1575 St. Johns Place, Brooklyn.

He has developed and renovated numerous properties, creating hundreds of units of affordable housing while also growing small businesses.

Located at 821 East Brighton Avenue in Syracuse, Onondaga County, this affordable housing preservation project is among the hundreds that form the foundation of the Governor's new, $ 10 billion House NY 2020 program to create or preserve 100,000 affordable units over the next five years.

«We can talk about building hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing units, but if we're losing the same housing units on the other side, then we have a zero - sum game,» said Mr. Stringer, recalling a report by his office that discovered the loss of 400,000 units renting for $ 1,000 or less over the past 12 years.

«As I've said, over the last couple of decades we've lost several hundred thousand units of affordable housing.

Two - hundred thousand units of affordable housing.

«As we create these hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units, we also make sure they are done by qualified, professional programs and builders and workers,» she said, insisting that union construction is safer and of superior quality.

«We have taken hundreds of thousands of affordable units off the rent rolls and made them into luxury housing,» said Silver.

This deal is a part of the mayor's 10 - year affordable housing plan for the city to subsidize hundreds of thousands of affordable housing units.

The city controls hundreds of vacant parcels of land that could be used for some 50,000 units of affordable housing, according to a new report by City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

Meaningful improvements to the LIHTC (Low Income Housing Tax Credit), including a significant increase in funding and a change in the average income test, which should result in hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing units.