Sentences with phrase «not built affordable housing»

In fact, just yesterday, I heard on NPR that the city still has not built affordable housing 10 years after Katrina.

Why Can't We Build an Affordable House?

Not exact matches

«The barriers to building housing that's affordable for people at all levels of income is not the money that's available.

And most of all, don't increase those Affordable Housing Opportunity Fund fees developers would pay for opting out of building affordaAffordable Housing Opportunity Fund fees developers would pay for opting out of building affordableaffordable units.

We are not inheriting the earthly power or the worldly wealth, hut when Pentecostal and Catholic show up at city hall to make a plan to build affordable houses for the poor, we catch a glimpse of another, better kingdom.

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

Unlike many of his more wary real estate brethren, Rob Speyer moved quickly to build a strong relationship with de Blasio, but the two aren't on the same page on affordable housing.

But now almost a year later, it appears as though they have; 421a is not only essential for developers, it's the only way to ensure that affordable housing gets built.

Not only are we helping to return this beautiful building to productive use, it will be a vital source of quality affordable housing that will provide a safe and supportive environment, allowing those in need live with dignity and the respect they deserve.

Not to be outdone, a spokesperson for the mayor shot back, «If 421 - a is simply extended as is, as some are seeking up in Albany, there will be no prevailing wage construction jobs, far fewer building service workers making prevailing wage and no progress on affordable housing for tens of thousands in desperate need.

Housing associations have added to the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s andHousing associations have added to the supply of affordable housing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s andhousing but not at the volumes of council house building programmes in the 1960s and 1970s.

Mr. Cuomo also refused to say if he considered Mr. de Blasio's ambitious plan to create or maintain 200,000 units of affordable housing feasible, and said he did not know if he would speak at a planned rally of building trades workers in Albany next week.

The governor again echoed complaints from building trade unions that the mayor's plan would not obligate developers to pay prevailing wages to construction workers, wages Mr. de Blasio and the Real Estate Board of New York would be too expensive and would make large scale affordable housing construction unfeasible.

Much of the audience at the hearing wore the orange t - shirts of UP4NYC, a building trades union group formed to oppose Mr. de Blasio's proposal to reform 421a to expand the requirements for affordable housing, but not mandate prevailing wages for construction workers.

«To suggest that you can't have projects that do both, create good jobs and also create affordable housing, is just not even consistent with the mayor's own history,» said Paul Fernandes of the Building and Construction Trades Council.

And, when I need, to I'll stand up to developers on delivering affordable housing, ensuring that the London Plan is amended with a 50 % target for affordable homes and measures to ensure that Londoners, not overseas investors, always get first dibs on the homes we build.

While members of the not - for - profit have been regular critics of Paladino and his role on the Buffalo Public School Board, Washington said this particular protest concerned Ellicott Development's role in the «gentrification» of Buffalo by building luxury apartments with public funds that could be used for affordable housing.

The Tories halted the overall decline in house building but not the decline in affordable house building.

Steven Spinola, president of the Real Estate Board of New York — whose members are Cuomo's largest campaign donors — responded to the governor by saying «we can't regulate our way out of our affordable housing problem» and calling for incentives to build more.

City neighborhood and development commissioner Paul Driscoll doesn't think there are any other housing projects like it in the city: a mix of market rate apartments with affordable apartments in one building.

Stringer said at the debate that «right now» the city is «building luxury developments with some affordable housing that is not affordable.»

The $ 145.3 billion spending plan increases school aid next year by just under $ 1 billion (which school boards say is not enough) and over the next five years commits to build thousands of units of affordable housing for the homeless, contribute $ 8.3 billion to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, spend $ 22 billion on upstate roads and bridges, cut taxes for small businesses and create a rebate for Thruway toll payers.

Mr. de Blasio would not commit to supporting or opposing the bill today, though his administration has generally opposed measures that it believes could increase the costs of building affordable housing.

«As a city we can not in good faith push to build and preserve affordable housing while simultaneously increasing rents and effectively pricing families out of their homes.

I admire the mayor for making a full commitment to building affordable housing, but we can not build our way out of this,» said Frank Castillo, a building service worker who spoke on behalf of Service Employees International Union, Local 32BJ.

The rezonings will touch communities where the housing market simply isn't strong enough for market - rate housing to subsidize the cost of building affordable, no matter how tall builders can build.

The following month, Phipps Houses, one of the city's premiere affordable housing developers, withdrew its rezoning application to build a 209 - unit apartment building in Sunnyside, Queens, retreating after it became clear that local Council member Jimmy Van Bramer could not be convinced to support the project.

«When I talk to people involved in commercial real estate, and I don't have the exact number, but they're saying land costs are astronomically high, and taxes are one of the big reasons why it's very difficult to build affordable housing,» Flanagan said.

«How is it that a community with a need as great as ours has not even received 1 percent of the affordable housing built in Manhattan?»

With all this extra money, why doesn't NYC build its own affordable housing?

«We would not have build thousands and thousands of affordable units of housing in the city of New York if we didn't have the 421 - a program,» Klein said.

The New York Times: «Cuomo, who should be using his power to make New York City more hospitable to working - class and middle - class families, has instead slipped a little poison into his executive budget that could cripple the city's ambitious efforts to build affordable housing... It's not a stretch to call this sabotage (of de Blasio's agenda).»

Neighbors blasted the plan, which is the first individual project to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's controversial Mandatory Inclusionary Housing rezoning, saying the «affordable» income requirement didn't match with those in the area and that there was no environmental impact study to see what effect the building would have on neighboring Fort Tryon Park.

The governor also did not deny that he was the «top Cuomo administration official» quoted in the Daily News questioning de Blasio's strategy as he pushed to renew his control of the city's schools and restructure and reauthorize a real estate tax subsidy to help him build more affordable housing.

«The village of Elmsford is not part of the 31 eligible communities under the settlement, and that doesn't mean that just because we are building affordable housing in various communities that you can't have market - based housing,» says Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino who was invited to the ribbon cutting of the new amenities.

«I have often said that if all that ends up happening is that the county builds these affordable housing units [to satisfy the settlement], and then never builds affordable housing again, this would not have been successful,» she said.

But today, the mayor insisted his administration was either currently building affordable housing on many of those properties or would do so soon — but that many others just aren't suited for residential construction.

Without a program like 421 - a, one can't build multi-family rental housing with a significant below - market, or affordable, component on a scale necessary to address the City's needs,» said REBNY President John Banks, though he echoed Mr. LaBarbera's suggestion of a new system of some kind.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said he's fine with the state subsidizing higher wages for construction workers who build affordable housing in the five boroughs — as long as it doesn't impact the city's bottom line.

De Blasio spokesman Dan Levitan wouldn't comment on the possibility of running against Donovan, but cited a record the mayor will run on next year that includes, «crime just hit another all - time low, jobs are at record highs, the city is building and preserving affordable housing at a record pace, while graduation rates and test scores continue to improve.»

Despite the mayor's homeless and housing plans, advocates have complained that the de Blasio administration has not done enough to build affordable units for the New Yorkers who need them the most.

«The objective is to improve the schools, bring down crime, build affordable housing, clean the streets — not to have a fair fight.»

In one passage of the written transcripts from June 2015, Astorino says «HUD is trying to change the rules of the agreement in the middle of the game... as part of the settlement the county has to build 750 units of affordable housing in 31 eligible communities... In the middle of the game we get a letter from HUD saying, «not good enough, not good enough, we want you to do X, Y, Z.»»

«We're not happy about everything, but we think it will lead to building more affordable housing.»

One of the main criticisms of the plan in The Bronx was that the affordable housing it set out to build would not actually be affordable for many residents in the borough.

Weiss» client is looking to rezone a manufacturing site in order to construct a nursing home at 141 Conover Street, and while the owner wouldn't be required to build any affordable housing, the city is including it in the MIH program in the event the site is later sold off to a residential developer, he explained.

However, several Bronxites at the packed hearing blasted the proposals for not focusing enough on building affordable housing that residents could actually afford and described them as plans to price residents out of the borough, repeatedly breaking out into enthusiastic chants of «The Bronx is not for sale!»

He also sits on the boards of two key state housing agencies, including the Housing Finance Agency, which provides financing to for - profit and not - for - profit developers to build affordable housing projects across thehousing agencies, including the Housing Finance Agency, which provides financing to for - profit and not - for - profit developers to build affordable housing projects across theHousing Finance Agency, which provides financing to for - profit and not - for - profit developers to build affordable housing projects across thehousing projects across the state.

Despite the city's search for new places to build affordable housing, doing so on the island would not be feasible, the commission found.

An alternative plan, which would include two shorter buildings and would not need land use approval from the city, would be sold or rented at market rates and would not include an affordable housing component.