Sentences with phrase «of affordable housing for»

Manufactured homes are a critical source of affordable housing for more than 22 million working families.

The homes are made possible through HOME Investment Partnership funds administered by the St. Louis County Office of Community Development to assist with the creation of affordable housing for low and moderate income families.

Recent Home Mortgage Disclosure Act data shows that consumers have been shut out of the market for quality, affordable housing because regulations have decreased the availability of financing for manufactured homes, which are a vital source of affordable housing for millions of low - and moderate - income families across the country.

But while the city grew and prospered, Asheville struggled with two problems shared by many older cities, a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing for local residents for whom even the $ 127,000 median - priced home was unattainable.

Such features, not generally associated with affordable housing, reflect the desire among many municipalities to increase the quality of affordable housing for their residents.

The lack of affordable housing for people with a modest financial background is a huge challenge for municipal governments.

NHC is an umbrella organization for groups (including NAR) concerned about the availability of affordable housing for rental and homeownership.

Course attendees, representing a geographic cross section from California to Delaware and Minnesota to Texas, identified similar conditions — low inventory, bidding wars, flat income, appraisal problems — impeding the development of affordable housing for working families across their markets.

Meanwhile, recognising the importance of affordable housing for health, Summer May Finlay has been investigating the question: Housing, where do Liberal, Labor and Greens stand?

An exclusion of the 3 % second home surcharge from affordable private rental housing would encourage the provision of affordable housing for lower paid workers.

Budget 2016 provides $ 200.7 million over two years, starting in 2016 — 17, to support the construction, repair and adaption of affordable housing for seniors.

Budget 2016 proposes to provide $ 200.7 million over two years, starting in 2016 — 17, to support the construction, repair and adaption of affordable housing for seniors.

«Due to the extreme shortage of teachers in the state, many school districts must seek opportunities to attract qualified teachers,» Assemblyman Kevin Mullin, D - South San Francisco, said of his bill meant to increase the supply of affordable housing for teachers.

«The creation of affordable housing for families and especially for seniors thus far has not kept up with demand, contributing to the inherited housing crisis.

«Public housing is a vital but neglected source of affordable housing for hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.

30 Apartments of Affordable Housing for Low - Income Families, Mixed - Use Development Features Buffalo Black Achievers Museum

The most comprehensive affordable housing plan in the City's history and largest municipal housing plan in the nation, its goal is to create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing for very low - and middle income families to help address New York City's affordability crisis.

The development provides 43 new units of affordable housing for low - income New Yorkers, and meets the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's (NYSERDA) requirements for an Energy Smart development.

October 18, 2016 — HELP USA and Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown, today were joined by New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) and the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance (OTDA), and partners to announce construction of 47 units of affordable housing for low income families and formerly homeless veterans in Buffalo.

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.

«It went form vacant lots and burned out buildings to having an enormous amount of affordable housing for people.»

I could use my prior experience to address the critical shortage of affordable housing for people in need.

Not exact matches

Altman, by contrast, has advocated for the government to take on responsibility for affordable housing, «instead of letting rich people drive it up to increase their own wealth.»

According to a report from Toronto - based social policy group the Wellesley Institute, «rooming houses are one of the most affordable private - market housing options for low - income tenants....

Real estate developers are under pressure in China to refurbish older properties for rental purposes to ease a supply shortage in the market for affordable housing, says Peter Churchouse of Portwood Capital.

The proposal, an employee hours tax that would transition to a payroll tax in 2021, would generate $ 75 million per year for Seattle, most of which would go to building affordable housing.

With it, the state could pay for most of a $ 25 million bond for affordable housing that voters may be asked to approve this fall.

Wolf posits several possible explanations — the relatively high cost of childcare in the United States, higher participation rates for older workers relative to Europe, and the lack of affordable housing in the most economically vibrant cities in the United States.

A critical lack of affordable housing and sky - high rent prices have made the San Francisco Bay Area unlivable for many artists, artisans, longtime residents, and even tech entrepreneurs.

«The good news, which is the mantra of my office and community board No. 4, is there will be, yes, by law, 35 years of income - restricted affordable housing,» Gale Brewer, the former City Councilwoman for the area and current Borough President of Manhattan, said at the time.

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

In 2016, her team financed the construction and rehabilitation of 14,000 affordable housing units for low - income families and seniors in over 90 US cities.

There's no one universal model for these policies, but they generally involve one of two things: a requirement that developers either make a certain percentage of their housing units available at below - market rates, or that has them pay a fee into a fund for affordable housing.

Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

«Affordable housing has been quite a serious problem for us,» says Philip Souza, owner of Century 21 Smith / Ring Inc. «The people who don't earn as much have a difficult time remaining close to work.»

Goldman agreed to pay $ 2.39 billion in civil penalties, and another $ 1.8 billion in relief in the form of loan forgiveness and financing for affordable housing.

Prop F is the work of affordable - housing advocates who believe Airbnb is taking desperately needed housing inventory off the market by making it more profitable to host tourists and business travelers than to offer it for residential lease.

Senior vice president of CGI Federal Cheryl Campbell (L) and group executive vice president for Optum / QSSI Andrew Slavitt testify during a hearing on implementation of the Affordable Care Act before the House Energy and Commerce Committee October 24, 2013 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.

The paper's estimates are conservative, since they don't count utility fees or the impact of project - specific agreements, in which local politicians ask builders to provide particular amenities (including affordable housing) in exchange for permits.

Affordable - housing groups, however, worry that current Nashville residents won't be, for the most part, the beneficiaries of the high - paying jobs that Amazon promises.

But for many other cities, tall buildings are needed to fill a shortage of affordable, innovative and sustainable housing.

Though it mentioned the issue only in passing in its request for proposals last fall, Amazon says it will take such costs into account, and has met with affordable - housing groups in several of the finalist cities.

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.

In fact, there is a substantial housing need here — a need for any kind of new affordable housing.

At the heart of the lawsuit is the Affordable Requirements Ordinance (ARO), which is part of Chicago's five - year «Bouncing Back» plan for increasing affordablAffordable Requirements Ordinance (ARO), which is part of Chicago's five - year «Bouncing Back» plan for increasing affordableaffordable housing.

Whatever is the current cause of the rise of prices in the housing market, when computed as the mortgage cost in labour time in terms of the average weekly salary, residential properties, with the exception of the 1988 - 1991 period, are now clearly less affordable for middle - class Canadians than they were for the last five decades.

There are many parts of BC where housing, including single family detached homes, are affordable for someone working full - time, full - year.

The Florida Legislature is cutting short its help for affordable housing, diverting tens of millions of dollars each year from a trust fund meant to aid such housing developments.

There's a strong public interest in regulating the sale of housing to people who don't live and work in the Vancouver region, because non-local buyers make housing less affordable for everyone else.

Though these are positives for the future of housing and business competiveness, there are still challenges ahead in supplying a range of high - quality, affordable housing options for Orange County's workforce.