Sentences with phrase «permanent affordable housing»

The borough president recommended more permanent affordable housing and local schools seats.

Under the proposals approved by the City Council, the council member whose district a development is in chooses from several options, mandating different percentages of permanent affordable housing for people making anywhere from 40 percent of area median income, or AMI, to 115 percent.

Thirty houses on Long Island that were damaged by superstorm Sandy and acquired by the state's New York Rising program will be taken over by a housing group to be made into permanent affordable housing for eligible homebuyers.

«This can be a great example to other neighborhoods that you can create permanent affordable housing and you can create moderate and middle income affordable housing.»

City Comptroller Scott Stringer recently called on the city to create a land bank that would convert vacant space into permanent affordable housing, noting that an audit his office conducted this year found that there are 1,175 vacant properties in the city.

The new project is expected to provide 600 units of permanent affordable housing on Manhattan's Far West Side.

Borough president Scott Stringer wants to ensure permanent affordable housing options at Seward Park.

LOWER EAST SIDE — Borough President Scott Stringer announced Thursday his conditional support for the massive and controversial plan to develop several underused blocks along Delancey Street near the Williamsburg Bridge — saying he wants the current plan to set aside half of the units as permanent affordable housing added to the application materials.

From left, The Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling is located on the ground floor of a mixed - use building, designed by architect David Adjaye, which includes permanent affordable housing.

They each called for easing overcrowding in classrooms in the neighborhood, the need for new school buildings and support for creating more permanent affordable housing.

«As Borough President, he helped thousands of families and individuals to open bank accounts through his Bank On Manhattan program, and fought for rent regulations and permanent affordable housing.

He also recommended that the building have more permanent affordable housing — beyond the 166 units of affordable apartments included in the current plan — and suggested some units be set aside for formerly homeless families.

Borough President Scott Stringer called the permanent affordable housing «an important step forward» in a statement Tuesday night.

LOWER EAST SIDE — After years of advocacy by the community, permanent affordable housing is on the way to a long - vacant Lower East Side development site.

After Chin announced the permanent affordable housing at a Community Board 3 meeting Tuesday night, the board voted unanimously to support the city's plan for SPURA.

«We want him to create a permanent affordable housing plan based on the average income brackets in our neighborhoods,» she added.

area, and Indwell (formerly Homestead Christian Care) is addressing the need by building Rudy Hulst Commons, a permanent affordable housing complex in Hamilton's East End.

The units created under the program are now part of the permanent affordable housing stock and will be bought and sold with the help of real estate practitioners for the next 30 to 50 years.