Sentences with phrase «latest affordable housing plan»

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In his State of the City address, the mayor made it clear his focus this year will be on his affordable housing plan — which will require plenty of help from Albany, where rent laws are set to expire later this year.

There was the time, less than a month later, when Mr. de Blasio, as a centerpiece of his State of the City address, announced a plan to build an affordable housing complex on a Queens rail yard — and Mr. Cuomo, within hours, shot it down.

Alicia Glen, deputy mayor for housing and economic development, said that she was an intern in college in the administration of the late former Mayor Ed Koch 30 years ago and thus had the opportunity to work on his landmark affordable housing plan that is said to be his biggest achievement — a plan she also worked on under the administrations of former Mayors David Dinkins and Rudy Giuliani.

She also briefly discussed two areas emerging in the 2018 mayoral election as major concerns for the county, wage levels and affordable housing, but offered no specifics, other than to say a housing plan would be rolled out later this year.

The governor's latest proposal to extend the 421 - a property tax break to spur affordable housing construction would cost the city $ 820 million more than it had planned over 10 years.

In Brownsville, Mr. Sanders toured the Howard Houses along with some local elected officials, and his campaign later released a plan for affordable housing.

A spokeswoman for Mr. de Blasio said that in his discussions in late 2014 about shelter openings, he was pushing for a «comprehensive vision» that took account of his long - term affordable housing plan.

This plan is the latest in a 15 - year pattern of similar efforts filed in the legislature after the state's supreme court apparently in response to rulings issued by the supreme court regarding affordable housing requirements and education spending (the Abbott cases).