Sentences with phrase «passed affordable housing plan»
Convincing a reluctant city council to pass an affordable housing plan.
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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.
Republicans, in control of Congress and the White House, are under intense pressure to pass significant legislation before year's end, having repeatedly failed to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act or develop a plan to rebuild infrastructure.
When the City Council passed sweeping changes to the city's zoning code in March, it was heralded as a major victory for Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan.
Vice President Mike Pence and Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price went to Capitol Hill today to try to salvage the Republican plan to revise the Affordable Care Act, whose chances of passing the House appear increasingly slim.
Stefanik recently voted for the GOP healthcare plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, which passed the House of Representatives.
She says she also sees the plans to be passed by the City Council as a starting point and that she's received commitments from the mayor that agencies such as the Department of Housing Preservation and Development would invest «additional resources» to make projects more affordable.
Stringer took aim, specifically, at de Blasio's proposals to expand affordable housing in the city — the mandatory inclusionary housing and rezoning plan passed earlier this year.
De Blasio said that since June, the city has been waiting on the state «to give us a clear affordable housing plan» but that it passed a «nebulous plan with no facts.»
Maloney's efforts are part of a Democratic Adopt - A-District plan to focus attention on what has so far been an unpopular measure passed by the House Republicans last week to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
As the de Blasio administration seeks to meet its ambitious affordable housing goals and, in that effort, pass significant changes to the city's zoning rules, Diaz Jr. has emerged as the loudest opponent of the plans, further ruffling feathers at City Hall after several previous high - profile disagreements this year.