Sentences with phrase «of council house building»

Policy options raised by Findlay included increasing the minimum wage, reintroduction of council house building, reduction in the use of the private sector in NHS Scotland, and allowing councils to set their own taxes to help reverse job losses within local government.

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

New Labour continued the process, cutting the number of Council houses built to a mere 200 - 300 a year in the last decade, despite the number of households on the local authority waiting lists topping 1.8 million.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Result: Vancouver city council has asked vendors to submit expressions of interest in building such worker - affordable housing on city - owned land.

The building, also called the Peary House, serves as an example of the type of commercial enterprises lawmakers say they're hoping to prohibit with new rules being reviewed by the D.C. Council.

In January of 2012, actor and musician Gary Sinise asked Temecula City Council if he and his Lt. Dan Band could play a benefit concert at City Hall to help his foundation (Gary Sinise Foundation) contribute to building a house for a wounded veteran who wanted to move to Temecula.

The council will be involved as an official partner, along with housing association Liverpool Mutual Homes, which will build new homes as part of the overall regeneration scheme.

The City Council this week also unanimously rejected the request of a pair of property owners to tear down a house and annex and subdivide the land in order to build two single - family houses.

In approving the Nitti subdivision, a planned development of 56 new homes to be built on the site of the former Elmhurst Hospital site on Berteau, Elmhurst city council members also approved substantial increases in impact fees that will add $ 10,100 to the cost of a house in the subdivision and generate $ 470,000 for Elmhurst schools and $ 95,000 for the Park District.

Crucially for the council, the deal committed both sides to the wider regeneration of the area through the development of a «North Tottenham Regeneration programme», including plans to build 1,650 new flats and houses, a library, a cinema, bars, shops and restaurants and a Sainsbury's supermarket.

«In 2012, the government reformed the HRA subsidy system so councils keep all the rents they collect from their homes, and receipts from sales of houses or land, giving them the freedom to invest them in building new homes.»

Like so many council houses of its time, it was well built, with big rooms and a large garden.

«If you are in the business of devolution, if you understand that is the political message of the time then it does seem to me that London has to retain funds to do things like build council houses.

At 10 a.m., Housing Rights Initiative and NYC Council Oversight & Investigations Committee Chair Ritchie Torres announce an investigation into Kushner Companies for falsifying permits with the NYC Department of Buildings and the impact it had on reducing the number of rent - stabilized apartments across the city, Kushner Companies Headquarters, 666 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

For example on housing their ideological position suggests that they would try to build a lot of new council housing.

As Chair of the Council's Housing and Buildings Committee, I am thrilled that the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has for the first time in its history voted to freeze rent for 1.2 million rent stabilized tenants,» said Williams, who represents the 45th Council District in Brooklyn.

This week, New York City Housing Authority tenants who are leaders of Metro Industrial Areas Foundation and New York City council members will launch an inspection tour of NYCHA properties citywide to highlight dangerous conditions in their homes and apartment buildings.

That ought still to include a promise to force a Commons vote on it and thus challenge the Lib Dems, a promise to enable and require councils to build houses, a promise to restore the Agricultural Wages Board that the Lib Dems have abolished, a promise to reverse the dismantlement of England's NHS by Shirley Williams and other Lib Dems, a promise to reverse any privatisation of the Royal Mail and thus stop it because no buyer would take the risk, and a promise to renationalise the railways for free over the course of a Parliament by simply taking back each franchise as it came up for renewal.

We need to reform the public sector borrowing requirement to free councils to borrow money against their assets to build council houses (i.e use the EU definition of Public Sector Net Debt).

So, according to the council member with whom Corey Johnson claims to have worked to build more affordable housing, his involvement was vague at best, and James has no specific recollection of his participation.

A survey in 2014 by trade body the National House Building Council found that half of small builders cited banks» reluctance to lend as a serious problem.

They can't comment on the individual cases raised, but point out that a crucial question will be whether the councils concerned have the five year land supply to meet their housing need - which councils are require to have under the National Planning Policy Framework which together with its presumption in favour of sustainable development the National Trust, of which Jenkins is Chairman, apparently supported, along with the CPRE (claims my source, who also disputes Hastings's figures on the amount of land built on in any way).

Leaving aside the fact that the Council Member involved in the negotiations on the other side of the table from Johnson, Tish James, said flat out that she has no recollection of Corey Johnson's role in securing the higher percentage, no housing of any sort was built at all at 470 Vanderbilt.

Would you support the building of more Council Houses, or social housing?

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New York City Housing Authority chairwoman Shola Olatoye, left, testified for five hours Tuesday at a New York City Council hearing Tuesday about her agency's many scandals, including lack of heat at many if its buildings.

The Cabinet have also today gained approval for the rest of the Council's budget for 2018/19, a four year business plan, a 30 year Housing strategy, the establishment of a new publicly owned arms length company to build a 1000 new council Council's budget for 2018/19, a four year business plan, a 30 year Housing strategy, the establishment of a new publicly owned arms length company to build a 1000 new council council houses.

Poloncarz was joined at the signing event by NYS Assemblyman Sean Ryan (149th District), Heather Gresham, Executive Director of the Buffalo & Erie County Workforce Investment Board («WIB»), President of the Buffalo Building Trades Council Paul Brown, Buffalo NAACP President Rev. Mark Blue, and People United for Sustainable Housing («PUSH») Buffalo Executive Director Aaron Bartley.

In her testimony before the Council, Ms. Glen noted that the 421a credit — a frequent target for liberals — is available for most projects across the city, but developers are only required to include any affordable housing in their buildings in the so - called «geographical exclusion area» covering just 16.5 percent of the city.

«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.

Shelter estimates that only one house per ten houses sold has been built since 2012 when the government extended RTB of council homes.

Whatever program comes next to spur affordable housing in 421a's wake, Gary LaBarbera, president of the Building and Construction Trades Council, said he'd keep pushing for better pay for construction workers.

I applaud the Administration for their attention in helping senior and disabled homeowners,» said Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, chair of the Housing and Buildings Committee.

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, and council members were among the housing advocates, families, and New York City tenants who planned to sleep outside of the Murray Hill office building in hopes of spurring action from the State Senate, Mr. Cuomo and the Assembly.

Today the Hilton London Euston Hotel played host to the National Housing Building Council (NHBC) and the Chartered Institute of Building's (CIOB) Faculty of Building Control and Standards Scholar Presentation.

The Conservatives have expressed more scepticism that the country can build its way out of a housing crisis, while individual local councils have proved resistant to many housing schemes.

I'll establish Homes for Londoners, a new in - house developer at City Hall, led by me, working with councils and private developers to lever in funding and get thousands of new affordable and market homes built on spare public land and brownfield.

«A past conviction should never prevent someone from being able to put food on the table or pay their rent,» said Council Member Jumaane D. Williams, Deputy Leader and Chair of the Housing and Buildings Committee.

While we support the Government's aims to build more houses, democratically accountable councils have been at the forefront of delivering local growth and the creation of a separate, remote quango is unnecessary.

We have already heard about house building, and a low level of house building means that there is no buoyancy in the council tax.

The de Blasio administration has reached a project labor agreement with the Building and Construction Trades Council of Greater New York, covering $ 3.5 billion of work and repairs at the New York City Housing Authority over the next three years.

«We've got over 250,000 more affordable homes - and here's a statistic he'll like: in the last Parliament we built more council houses than in 13 years of a Labour government,» he said.

The Central New York Regional Economic Development Council this week recommended the state provide a $ 600,000 grant and $ 1.4 million in income tax credits to assist Terakeet with a $ 3 million renovation of a downtown building to house its growing staff.

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.

And Heidi Burkhart, president of the affordable housing brokerage Dane Real Estate, warned that the higher construction wages negotiated by REBNY and the Building Trades Council could stifle development on projects with high land costs and thin margins.

It's not just Iraq, but a series of decisions that have not stood the test of time over PFI, private contractors in public services, central control of power and money stymying councils from building social housing - the list goes on.

At 1 p.m., the Housing advocacy coalition Real Affordability for All (RAFA), New York Communities for Change, and the NYC Building & Construction Trades Council will join Assemblyman Francisco Moya to call for reform of the Scaffold Law and the so - called «Sunshine» bill, LCA pressroom, state Capitol, Albany.

Next year's reform of council housing finance means that local authorities could start building again, though more work is needed to get the most from this.

New labour can not create social justice through equal oppurtunity alone, they need to have policies that directly end poverty such as getting down the price of gas through state intervention, building council houses through state intervention.