Sentences with phrase «on public housing»

A general preference will be given to veterans and to persons on public housing waiting lists for all units.

Almost 40,000 people are on the public housing waiting list.

The bureaucracy connected with gaining permission to do volunteer work on public housing would be the easy part.

In a similar fashion, student loans and financial aid count as income on your public housing benefit application.

The New York City Council Committee on Public Housing holds an oversight hearing examining elevator safety in NYCHA housing following the death of Olegario Pabon at Boston Road Plaza, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

Mr. Cuomo last week ordered the city to choose an independent monitor to oversee new state spending on public housing.

NYC Council members said they found «common ground» with Cuomo on public housing issues after a lengthy, closed - door meeting at the state Capitol.

City Council members said they found «common ground» with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on public housing issues after a lengthy, closed - door meeting at the State Capitol Tuesday.

Bronx prosecutors have quietly stopped charging people arrested for trespassing on public housing projects through stop and frisk procedures, unless they interview the arressting officer and the officer convinces them to proceed.

Also at 10 a.m., the NYC Council Committee on Oversight and Investigations and the Committee on Public Housing hold a joint hearing to examine the failure of NYCHA's heating systems and boilers, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reached deals with three major real estate firms to stop what he claimed was the illegal denial of apartments to people on public housing assistance.

He is the youngest member of the City Council and was elected to the body in 2013, and he chairs the Committee on Public Housing in addition to sitting on the Land Use Committee.

I am proud to join Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr., Chair of the Committee on Public Housing Ritchie Torres, and Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark in releasing this important report detailing the very real safety issues Bronx NYCHA residents face and step - by - step recommendations for meaningful community improvement,» said City Council Member Vanessa Gibson, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Safety.

A review of two books on public housing.

The houses — erected by something called the Nehemiah Project — are the only low - income mass housing to be erected in New York City since Congress and Ronald Reagan's administration pulled the plug more than five years ago on public housing funds.

The state health department will open an investigation into what impact NYCHA's lead paint failures have had on public housing tenants in southern Queens.

Bronx council member and Committee on Public Housing Chair Ritchie Torres was even more direct and said the Trump administration «poses the gravest threat to public housing» in NYCHA's 83 years.

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday called on the Wisconsin Legislature to pass a sweeping welfare overhaul package that includes requiring parents on food stamps to meet a work requirement, imposes new drug testing on public housing applicants and lays down a photo - identification requirement for food - stamp recipients.

Senior administration officials say the governor's recent activity has nothing to do with Ms. Nixon and everything to do with the state budget, due next week, where the governor is seeking to mobilize black support for some of the thorniest remaining issues, including on public housing and school funding.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

He has done so increasingly in recent months, from forcing a state monitor on public housing to an order to close one jail facility at the troubled complex on Rikers Island.

Speaking to the Observer over the phone, Mr. Diaz noted he had supported and even put some of his office's capital funding to new development on public housing properties — usually referred to as «infill» — around the Bronx in the past.

Sea level rise and its impact on public housing is just one risk climate change poses to HUD's mission.

September 14 — «Class Divide (2016)» is a documentary about class division and gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public housing.

Calvin Gurley — Accountant and auditor, served as a member of a mayoral commission on public housing

After graduating, she was awarded the Polikoff - Gautreaux Fellowship at Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (BPI) in Chicago, where she focused on public housing redevelopment and affordable housing policy at the city level.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

I used to work down in JC & Newark in the early to late 90's for a construction company and have been in the worst of areas while working on public housing projects & private projects.

ALBANY — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reached deals with three major real estate firms to stop what he claimed was the illegal denial of apartments to people on public housing assistance, the Daily News has learned.

Ritchie Torres, who chairs a city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New York.

As Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing, Council Member Torres oversaw the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) which is the largest provider of affordable housing in the country.

City Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing, announced that the Committee would require Olatoye to appear before an oversight hearing in early December.

Most «egregiously» — at least, according to Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Committee on Public Housing — the city assesses NYCHA a payment in lieu of property taxes on its buildings that exceeds $ 30 million each year.

He chairs the Council's Committee on Public Housing and has made a name for himself in the last four years as one of the most outspoken members of the council on issues of police reform, public housing and LGBT rights.

Ritchie Torres is the Chair of the City Council Committee on Public Housing.

Council Member Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, allocated $ 3 million dollars toward security cameras and layered access in the Parkside development.

On the MTA he is on the defensive; on public housing, he is proactively criticizing de Blasio and casting himself as a politician who delivers results.

Torres, a Bronx Democrat who chairs the Council's Committee on Public Housing, believes this is a serious issue of public safety and will introduce a bill on Wednesday that would require the Department of Transportation to prioritize sidewalk reconstruction at senior - only developments

She will also work with Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the council's committee on public housing, to hold «NYCHA accountable to residents,» she said in a statement.

City Councilman Ritchie Torres, who chairs the council's committee on public housing, described it as «outrageous» that it was taking NYCHA this long to hire a permanent replacement for its director of elevators.

Councilman Ritchie Torres was appointed Deputy Leader and Chairman of the Committee on Public Housing

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Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Committee on Public Housing and a NYCHA native himself, was on hand to praise the «bold plan.»

NYCHA's inability to accurately and effectively keep out sex offenders must be investigated and addressed quickly, and I look forward to the hearing on this topic in order to get NYCHA's plan for removing them,» said Council Member Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing.

Today Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito today announced that Councilman Ritchie Torres was appointed Deputy Leader and Chairman of the Committee on Public Housing.

Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Council's Committee on Oversight and Investigations — who previously headed the Committee on Public Housing — said the Council found that 323,000 residents were deprived of heat and hot water during the winter.

As Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing, Council Member Torres oversaw the New York City Housing...

But Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the City Council's Committee on Public Housing, called the plan to fix NYCHA roofs inadequate given the agency's massive capital backlog.

The chairman of the Committee on Public Housing, Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres — who grew up in public housing — asked Olatoye if she spoke to de Blasio or Alicia Glen, deputy mayor of housing and economic development, before signing the documents.