Sentences with phrase «preserved as affordable housing»

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(Washington, D.C.) The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) issued the following statement by Pamela G. Bailey, president and CEO, in response to the announcement by the White House on the nomination of Steve Censky, CEO of the American Soybean Association, as deputy secretary: «Americans enjoy the safest and most affordable food in the world, and Secretary Perdue is assembling an all - star team that will protect and preserve the public's longstanding confidence in the food and.

New York Post article on Borough President Adams joining Mayor de Blasio in announcing the City's initiative to create or preserve 300,000 affordable housing units by 2026, which he praised as critical to keeping Brooklyn affordable for all.

Mayor Bill de Blasio today unveiled a $ 41.1 billion affordable housing plan that city officials touted as the most ambitious in the city and nation's history, and which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years.

-- In his home district on the Lower East Side, there is abundant evidence that Silver kept his seat of power by blocking the creation of affordable housing in a 20 - block area known as the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area... Their goal was to preserve the influence of a shrinking Jewish community that made up Silver's political base.

Though speeches were generally brief — in part as a kindness to those who attended the outdoor ceremony on a bitterly cold day — each speaker managed to hit on that idea of fairness as the goal for the next four years, whether by creating and preserving affordable housing or ensuring that «equal pay for equal work» isn't merely a slogan.

Purchase preserves 94 Southern Tier Homes as Affordable Housing; The Woodlands Community Residents Proclaim «We Own It!»

«By joining Assembly Democrats in the fight to preserve affordable housing in New York, the governor has made a strong statement that he will not allow this issue to be a political football as this session winds down,» Heastie, a Bronx Democrat, said.

«As a city we can not in good faith push to build and preserve affordable housing while simultaneously increasing rents and effectively pricing families out of their homes.

The de Blasio administration's plan to rezone East New York and create or preserve thousands of new affordable housing units may actually displace as many as 50,000 residents, according to City Comptroller Scott Stringer.

On topic questions included whether the administration plans to increase low - income affordable housing production, what actions are required for the administration to count a unit of housing as «preserved», whether housing built with 421 (a) tax credits anywhere in the City should require affordable units, how the de Blasio administration counts housing underway at the end of the Bloomberg administration toward its goal, what was done in this housing complex to «preserve» these units, whether units counted as «preserved» are always on a 30 year agreement, the annual average of 20,000 units created or preserved as set forth in the mayor's ten year goal of 200,000 such units and how money was spent on the 17,000 units created or preserved in 2014.

Principal among the policy positions of Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio as a candidate was his promise to put an end to the abuses of stop and frisk; a pledge to ensure universal Pre-kindergarten by taxing New Yorkers making over $ 500,000; and creating and preserving greater units of affordable housing.

Speaking Thursday at the St. Patrick's Day Parade, de Blasio said the nonprofit had accomplished what it was created to do: Push through proposals such as universal pre-K and his zoning changes to help create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing.

The measure is meant to provide a certain amount of units in a development are set aside at below market rates as a means of preserving affordable housing in New York City.

The measure was seen as being squarely aimed at Airbnb, the popular online portal for short - term rentals, while lawmakers in favor of the bill insist it is meant to bolster and preserve affordable housing in New York City.

It results from this that if the public are faced with the choice between affordable housing and a preserved natural world, we as a people are likely to choose the former, echoing back to Maslow's theory.

After the loss, he stayed on with Nadler, working as his district coordinator while also volunteering as leader of the Mitchell - Lama Residents Coalition, which sought to preserve affordable housing right around the time Mitchell - Lama properties began aging out of the program.

HCR Commissioner James S. Rubin said: «Preserving our existing affordable housing stock is as important as creating new developments.

In 2014, New York State Homes and Community Renewal awarded $ 900,000 in annual Low Income Housing Tax Credits to Salina Crossing as part of Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion House NY initiative to build and preserve affordable housing and revitalize commuHousing Tax Credits to Salina Crossing as part of Governor Cuomo's $ 1 billion House NY initiative to build and preserve affordable housing and revitalize commuhousing and revitalize communities.

However, 60 % of those are already built and the goal is to «preserve» them as affordable housing, renovating and repairing them as necessary.

Sydney House will be the first project financed under HPD's Open Door program, which was announced last year as part of Mayor de Blasio's Housing 2.0 plan to create and preserve 300,000 affordable homes by 2026.

«As a State Senator,» he explained, «I will fight for the things that matter to New Yorkers: strengthening rent laws and preserving affordable housing, increasing access to quality schools, safeguarding the environment, promoting economic and social justice, preventing violence in our communities, and creating a fairer and more accessible political process.»

Through projects like Sydney House, and our new Open Door program, we will finance the construction of 1,300 new affordable homes as part of Housing New York 2.0, the Mayor's expanded and accelerated plan to create and preserve 300,000 affordable homes by 2026,» said New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Maria Torres - Springer.

Monday afternoon to tout the project by Genesis Companies as an example of his rezoning proposals and his plan to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing by 2024.

«This agreement preserves 505 LaGuardia as affordable housing into the foreseeable future and demonstrates NYU's commitment to work with its neighbors to preserve and improve the Greenwich Village neighborhood,» said Lynne Brown, NYU Senior Vice President.

The plans, known as Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) and Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA), are designed to facilitate the mayor's plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing across the five boHousing (MIH) and Zoning for Quality and Affordability (ZQA), are designed to facilitate the mayor's plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing across the five bohousing across the five boroughs.

The statement acknowledged Montgomery's «efforts to preserve... affordable rental housing,» as well as his successes in «reducing rental assistance costs and the costs of FHA insurance claims,» and in financing the development of «more than 300,000 rental units.»

The State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program (SHIP) provides funds to local governments as an incentive to create partnerships that produce and preserve affordable homeownership and multifamily hHousing Initiatives Partnership Program (SHIP) provides funds to local governments as an incentive to create partnerships that produce and preserve affordable homeownership and multifamily housinghousing.

The MacArthur Foundation provided principle support for the report as part of its $ 150 million Window of Opportunity, Preserving Affordable Rental Housing initiative.

One strategy for preserving affordability is for these properties to be acquired by nonprofit, mission - oriented developers and asset managers, such as Mercy Housing, a Colorado - based affordable housing organization that manages 17,400 units in 290 properties across the cHousing, a Colorado - based affordable housing organization that manages 17,400 units in 290 properties across the chousing organization that manages 17,400 units in 290 properties across the country.