Sentences with phrase «into affordable housing projects»

Developers, International Housing Solutions which incorporates smart technology into its affordable housing projects, says high speed internet connectivity has become the fourth utility after water, gas and electricity.

After the New Deal, African Americans and people of color were structurally moved into affordable housing projects and communities to protect home loans of suburban American communities.

Not exact matches

In addition to material and labor being more affordable (provided you're willing to put some sweat equity into the project), houses can be built in stages and added on to as resources allow — certainly a better option than taking out an overwhelming mortgage and racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of debt.

He said the mayor is prepared at any time to sit down and hash out plans, but for now, the current pipeline of affordable housing projects grandfathered into 421a should leave the city in good shape.

BFC also has targeted redevelopment projects, such as the Bedford - Union armory in Crown Heights, which the firm in 2015 announced plans to convert into private townhomes and affordable housing.

The program also played into what de Blasio considers his biggest success yet in forcing developers to include affordable housing; the 1,723 - unit Astoria Cove project along the Queens waterfront, where 27 percent of the units are to be available at below market - rate rents.

This is Almat's first step into the affordable housing arena, and we hope to bring more positive economic and social impact projects to the forefront in the future.»

A Metro IAF spokesperson also emphasized, as have its leaders, that the pace of NYCHA «infill» projects — like the senior projects Grace referred to — has been too slow and that four years into the affordable housing program, few have broken ground.

Other community benefits not easily quantified like access to quality affordable housing, placing vacant and historic properties back into productive use, and providing job training and opportunities to unemployed and underemployed city residents have also been effectively addressed through SIDA's support of projects like Salina Crossing, Bankers Healthcare Group and the Hotel Syracuse, to name a few.

«We thought that instead of it just being another bodega... what if we turned this storefront into a business that provided fresh and healthy foods, that provided affordable food, and also enhanced the community,» said Ilana Moyer, project manager for Workforce Housing Advisors.

Several other affordable housing projects are on hold pending an investigation into possible civil rights violations by Brooklyn - based U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch.

This is the second project by CB Emmanuel involving the conversion of a former schoolhouse into affordable housing.

«We were concerned that the community housing project we are working on in Liverpool would suddenly be seen as «art»,» says Lewis Jones, momentarily downing tools on the building site in Toxteth where the group is busy transforming a street of long - vacant terraced houses into affordable homes for a community land trust.

Instead, the McArthur «Genius Grant» recipient will have a series of paintings he made in and about Hong Kong, in which he opted to depict the dangerously overcrowded public - housing projects dotting the city, tapping into the controversial social issues surrounding its scant availability of affordable living space.

New government housing projects could create coop affordable units, but would they turn into another LA styled Watts neighbourhood, with crime and malaise?

This $ 20,000,000 proposal will inject some much needed cash into projects that will focus on bringing the necessary infrastructure and laying the groundwork for affordable housing construction in several areas.

About $ 2.3 billion of the total went to affordable multifamily housing, with an estimated $ 1.6 billion allocated for senior housing and $ 454 million funneled into student housing projects.

The money will be used to redevelop a nursing home into a 60 - unit affordable housing project for seniors.