Sentences with phrase «plan for a more affordable»

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Still, Roth says she plans to roll out a more affordable one - day program aimed at people traveling through Europe or for local Finnish women.

«While others are just talking, we are delivering our energy plan, making South Australia more self - sufficient, and providing back - up power and more affordable energy for South Australians this summer,» Jay Weatherhill, South Australia's premier, said in a statement Thursday.

You can register for a short - term international roaming plan with your service provider, but the more affordable options usually don't come with that much usable data — you don't want to find yourself paying a fortune per megabyte after you absentmindedly check Facebook one time.

He also said that the option to pay for the iPhone X over time through carrier - offered installment plans makes the iPhone X even more affordable.

However, in October the Indian cabinet approved a plan allowing New Delhi to work with Japan to make long - term LNG import deals more affordable for its consumers.

RingCentral is more affordable than most business phone plans and provides for unlimited phone lines and domestic calls.

People would generally only have to pay that much if they either didn't have health insurance (making them out of compliance with the Affordable Care Act, which requires Americans to have coverage) or if they had not yet reached their health plan's deductible (more common for people with high - deductible, so - called catastrophic health plans).

This company offers plans that are much more affordable compared to competitors, especially for users who have a large number of email addresses in their database.

TORONTO — Sarah Petrevan, senior policy advisor for Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of Ontario's 2017 Long - Term Energy Plan: «Ontario's long - term energy plan provides more direction than details, but it stays the course in building a modern, affordable and flexible energy sysPlan: «Ontario's long - term energy plan provides more direction than details, but it stays the course in building a modern, affordable and flexible energy sysplan provides more direction than details, but it stays the course in building a modern, affordable and flexible energy system.

Without it, the company will have trouble securing enough battery supply to make hundreds of thousands of EVs (which they plan to do for the upcoming, more affordable Model 3, to be unveiled in March 2016), and it will have trouble reducing its prices enough to attract Mr. and Mrs. Everybody (the Gigafactory is expected to slash costs by at least 30 % through economies of scale and high - tech manufacturing).

«The living wage can be achieved by employers paying more wages or by policy interventions that reduce expenses for people,» he said, adding a community child care plan similar to Quebec's could help further reduce the living wage by $ 3.22 an hour, making it more affordable for employers.

-- A day later Mylan came out with a new plan to provide end users a coupon for up to $ 300 on the generic to make it more affordable.

«Not only is T - Mobile offering the most flexible and affordable family plans among national carriers today, we are also making it more affordable than ever for families to add their kids or other family members by eliminating the associated monthly service fee until 2012,» said Ashley White, marketing director of value offers at T - Mobile USA.

At a time when other carriers were taking benefits away from their customers, Sprint was instead adjusting plans and making it better and more affordable for customers to have unlimited plans.

If you're planning to have two or three kids in the next few years, it is often more affordable to purchase a versatile stroller like the Baby Jogger City Select stroller which is suitable for one, two, or three kids.

De Blasio's plan to reshape neighborhoods is facing widespread opposition from community leaders and elected officials, setting up a battle for his administration as it seeks to build more affordable housing citywide.

Those issues include how he plans to make healthcare more affordable for Americans and create more good - paying jobs.

«Half - measures will not help struggling New York families and that is why Senate Democrats» EducateNY plan is the best option for making college more affordable,» said Sen. Mike Gianaris, a Queens Democrat.

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said the city must make modifications to the plan to gain her support, such as the addition of «significantly more new affordable units,» a delay in the rezoning of the commercial district, and $ 7.5 in funding for anti-displacement programs.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas said, «The Joseph L. Allen Apartments are doing for Hamilton Hill what Governor Cuomo's aggressive plan is doing across the state — providing affordable and supportive housing so more New Yorkers can live independent lives in the communities they love.

The Sherman Plaza developers, Washington Square Partners and Acadia Realty Trust, need approval from the Council for the spot rezoning to include more affordable housing in the project, which would be the first in the city to be built under Mayor Bill de Blasio's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) rezoning plan.

«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 commend Mayor de Blasio for putting forth a comprehensive plan to create more affordable housing at a time when so many New York families still struggle to make ends meet and afford to stay here.

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.

The tuition plan joins additional policy proposals rolled out by Cuomo this month, including a tax credit program to make childcare more affordable, investments in JFK Airport and charging infrastructure for electric cars and stronger safeguards against wage theft, cyber threats and the financial exploitation of senior citizens.

Surrounded by a phalanx of supportive fellow City Council members and activists from the Real Affordability for All coalition outside City Hall today, Council Member Costa Constantinides called for more affordable units in the proposed 8.7 - acre, 1,723 - unit Astoria Cove rezoning that reached the Council last week following its approval by the City Planning Commission.

In a statement, the de Blasio campaign said, «Bill de Blasio has put forward the most comprehensive affordable housing plan of any candidate for Mayor — one that will create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing and require developers to build more permanent affordable units.

More than a dozen dilapidated buildings have been demolished to make way for the project, part of the state's ongoing five - year, $ 20 billion plan to provide affordable housing across New York.

Even under the Affordable Care Act, as the state touts more than 2 million new enrollees in both Medicaid and commercial insurance plans, the state is not planning to spend any less on charity care — the state's budget commits nearly $ 800 million each year for the next five years to help hospitals defray the costs of providing care to the uninsured.

«The Patient Protection Coalition would be more aptly named the provider protection coalition as it is more interested in protecting specialists» income than making health insurance affordable to consumers,» said Leslie Moran, spokeswoman for the New York Health Plan Association.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

Manhattan became the third borough to reject de Blasio's ambitious zoning plans for the construction of more affordable housing.

Senator Jeff Klein organized a press conference yesterday at Fordham University, where he outlined a plan he is putting forward in the state senate to make college more affordable for New York families.

Alicia Glen, de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development and the woman charged with spearheading his affordable housing plan, has more than $ 3.7 million in holdings.

The boards, which are appointed by the mayor, City Council and borough presidents, have criticized the rezoning plans as not providing enough housing that is affordable to the actual income levels of people in the neighborhoods and for fear that it would spark more gentrification and overcrowding.

Monserrate, who served in both the council and the state Senate, has joined Lewis to push for more affordable housing at Willets Point, rather than a planned mega-mall.

Creating more affordable housing is a signature issue for the mayor determined to make New York City more equal, and de Blasio's administration is now prepared to devise a new strategy to regain momentum and secure support for a plan they believe has been poorly understood.

(Creating more housing for low - income New Yorkers, a move that was announced in yesterday's plan and differs from Bloomberg - era policies that focused heavily on middle - income affordable housing, should provide another bulwark against homelessness going forward.)

More about his affordable housing plan: Mayor Bill de Blasio promised 200,000 affordable housing apartments, including 50,000 units for New Yorkers earning less than $ 40,000.

In a rare win for Mayor Bill de Blasio, the City Council voted on March 17 in favor of his sweeping plans to rezone New York to create more affordable housing.

The Democrat has said he wants Rikers Island to close in three years, and he has called for the mayor's affordable housing plan to include more apartments for very low - income New Yorkers.

A private institution in Buffalo — Canisius College — is taking its cue from the state in attempting to make tuition more affordable for its students, announcing a plan to reduce its annual pricetag from $ 35,000 to $ 27,000 next year.

Having said this, we are not required to, BUT CAN, seek medical insurance through the ACA, if we believe we can achieve a better, more comfortable or affordable plan for our money, in the medical marketplace.

Quinn also presided over the council's approval of Bloomberg's Willets Point redevelopment in exchange for more affordable housing — delivering a higher percentage of affordable units than initially planned, though far less than opponents sought.

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.

The mayor has declared the plan on time and within budget and earlier this year he also announced an additional $ 1.9 billion investment to create 10,000 more affordable housing for low - income earners, including 5,000 more dedicated senior housing units, for a total of 15,000 senior units under the plan.

«We are in favor of developing a plan that produces more affordable housing but at fair terms for everyone.

RM: Successive chancellors have tried to give a boost to housebuilding but Hammond has had a very positive reception from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, who say this plan means he has listened to calls for more housing for rent and affordable homes to buy.

And I would think he would want to be a partner in this and I don't have any reasonable explanation for you why he's standing in the way of a reform plan that would protect the taxpayers and create a lot more affordable housing.