Sentences with phrase «of affordable housing plans»

But with many of the nation's cities facing what Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro calls an affordable housing crisis, the strategy is weaving its way into a growing number of affordable housing plans.

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The mayor didn't mention any of that Monday, focusing on his theme of reducing income inequality, giving unions credit for the passage of his affordable housing plan and paid sick leave.

The mayor was also asked about the fate of his affordable housing plan if the 421a tax abatement program for real estate developers lapses.

Critics blame NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's refusal to take any advice other than his own for the rejection by community leaders in all five boroughs of his affordable housing plan.

With Knight there to observe, the City Planning Commission will hold a much - anticipated public hearing Wednesday on two proposals by Mayor Bill de Blasio that are essential pieces of his affordable housing plan.

Update 5/11/17: The Hotel Trades Council, a big supporter of the affordable housing plan (since their members need affordable housing) endorsed Bill de Blasio.

It was not even a month ago that Mayor Bill de Blasio led a boisterous rally in Foley Square to celebrate the passage of key elements of his affordable housing plan.

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Amazon has suspended part of its expansion plans in Seattle, pending the outcome of a City Council vote on a new tax on large employers that would fund programs aimed at providing affordable housing and helping the homeless.

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.

This is a big, complex issue that requires a focussed national housing plan by senior government, to include new supply of affordable social housing.

But it was otherwise vague on plans to address the problem, stating without any specifics that it was expanding veterans» access to affordable housing and working with other levels of government and civil society.

Specific policies include the 30 - 50 Plan to Fight Poverty, which is committed to reducing the number of people living below the poverty line by 30 percent and the number of children by 50 percent; an Affordable Housing Plan; pursing the long - term goal of a national high - quality, universal, community - based, early education and child care system; increasing the Guaranteed Income Supplement by $ 600 per year for low - income seniors; and creating a new relationship with Canada's First Nation, Inuit and Métis peoples, including re-instating the Kelowna Accord.

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.

A plan that looks at the underlying issues that emerge in these conversations on immigration: the legacies of de-industrialisation, the absence of affordable housing, increasing job insecurity and zero hour work, and the impacts of neoliberalism on the national institutions that make up our shared identity.

As a result, it says ministers failed to make proper allowance in their housing plans, leading to the current shortage of affordable homes in the south of England in particular.

Indeed, the effect of the mayor's affordable housing plan on the city's real estate market has thus far been subtle.

«We have worked closely with the developers to maximise the affordable housing offer on this important site,» Councillor Ken Clark, chair of the strategic development committee said at the time the plans were announced.

The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building or preserving more than 100,000 units of affordable housing — enough to house every resident in the City of Buffalo.

The St. Barnabas Wellness Care and Affordable housing development is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion in the 2016 - 17 state budget for comprehensive statewide housing and homelessness actAffordable housing development is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion in the 2016 - 17 state budget for comprehensive statewide housing and homelessness actaffordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion in the 2016 - 17 state budget for comprehensive statewide housing and homelessness action plans.

In New York City, the fate of de Blasio's rezoning plan, which includes an affordable housing mandate, is set to be decided this month by the City Council.

In Albany, Cuomo touted his own affordable housing plan, which will dedicate $ 10 billion to the creation of 100,000 new affordable housing units statewide over the next five years.

As it pertains to affordable housing development, Brawley was immediately suspicious of de Blasio when he noticed that the 116 - page document the mayor released in 2014 detailing his housing plan included EBC's planned Gateway Elton Street development, despite City Hall having never consulted with the organization or Metro IAF.

Under the plan negotiated between the mayor and the Real Estate Board of New York, or REBNY, buildings with profitable luxury units would have a smaller share of affordable housing.

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The plan requires the support of the Republican - led State Senate, which has already shot down similar attempts by de Blasio, including a «millionaire's tax» that would have raised money for affordable housing programs.

The project advances the goals of Mayor Bill de Blasio's Housing New York: A Five - Borough, 10 - Year Housing Plan to create and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10Housing New York: A Five - Borough, 10 - Year Housing Plan to create and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10Housing Plan to create and preserve 200,000 affordable housing units over the next 10housing units over the next 10 years.

At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building and preserving more than 100,000 units of affordable housing and 6,000 of supportive housing.

As the House passed the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act Thursday, the administration of Governor Andrew Cuomo continued to blast the bill.

Local apartment rents increased, the eviction rate was a bit higher than the state average and about 14 percent of Manchester's housing was labeled affordable last year, according to a recent report from the town planning department.

He is the only one who will raise taxes on the wealthy to fund universal pre-k and after - school programs that keep our kids safe; the only one who supports the full package of reforms to end a stop - and - frisk era defined by racial profiling; and he has the boldest plan to build or preserve nearly 200,000 units of affordable housing.

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.

The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building and preserving 112,000 units of affordable housing, including 6,000 of supportive housing.

The rapid ageing of society also has dramatic effects on available affordable housing and only a well - planned policy response can prevent a national housing crisis.

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.

One of the De Blasio administration's core initiatives is its Housing New York plan, created in 2014 with the goal of adding or preserving 200,000 affordable units for New Yorkers by 2022.

The initiative included television ads, online videos and robo - calls, however, despite the DCCC's best efforts, the plan was ineffective as the Republican controlled House repealed all or parts of the Affordable Care Act more than 33 times.

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.

Lakeville Estates in Livingston County is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion for comprehensive statewide affordable housing and homelessness action plans.

«I'm deeply disappointed that this plan that we believe fundamentally was better for the taxpayers — ended the subsidies of large amounts of luxury housing by the taxpayers, achieved more affordable housing, cut the city's subsidies, just look at the benefits of this plan,» Mr. de Blasio said today at a Brooklyn press conference.

«I need all of you to speak to every elected official in Albany and urge them to step up and to urge the governor of the state of New York and the state Legislature to work with the city government, to work with the mayor, to work with my office, to work with the City Council to provide more resources to come up with more innovative plans and proposals to address the crisis of affordable housing in the city of New York,» she added.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today unveiled a $ 41.1 billion affordable housing plan that city officials touted as the most ambitious in the city and nation's history, and which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years.

One of the core architects of Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan announced her intention to step down from city government today — making her the third top city administrator do so since December.

The city has closed on 52,936 affordable apartments — putting it ahead of schedule on Mayor de Blasio's ambitious housing plan, officials announced Tuesday.

Shephard said that Mayor Bill de Blasio's plan to greatly expand the city's number of affordable housing units provides an opportunity for developers to incorporate solar and clean energy into lower - income neighborhoods.

Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie today echoed Gov. Andrew Cuomo's call for the city to put up more money toward the City University of New York system — but backed Mayor Bill de Blasio's criticism of the governor's plans to add new layers of state oversight on affordable housing funds and to cut the state's contribution toward Medicaid.

She applauded the mayor's two years of rent freezes for tenants in regulated apartments and his recent update to his plan to create or preserve 200,000 affordable housing units by 2024 to cover more low - income individuals, but wants the city to go farther.

De Blasio has proposed a package of housing ideas that would make state rent regulations more tenant - friendly and alter a state tax - rebate plan that's intended to subsidize affordable housing, all to advance his progressive agenda.

The Woodlands Community in Steuben County is part of Governor Cuomo's unprecedented commitment to affordable housing and community renewal, which includes $ 20 billion in the 2016 - 17 state budget for comprehensive statewide affordable housing and homelessness action plans.