Sentences with phrase «private development of affordable housing»
He suggested another way to get around the state was to go to the Federal level and push to have the Housing Trust funded and to get the HUD office to initiate public / private development of affordable housing.
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Under the traditional model of housing development in the UK, landowners effectively compete to ensure that their land is used for the most profitable part of the development (usually high end private housing) rather than for, say, parkland or affordable homes.
«The offset to the natural market - driven forces of gentrification is aggressive public policies that encourage the private - sector development of affordable housing, said Gill.
It turns out Cuomo went to Buffalo in late November not for one, but two hushed - hushed campaign fundraisers, one of which was a private gathering of deep - pocketed executives from affordable housing development companies, most of them from out - of - state.
The mayor, then public advocate, also repeatedly criticized Mayor Bloomberg's land lease program plan, which would lease public land to private developers and require that 20 percent of developments be dedicated to affordable housing.
«While the inclusionary program, which requires private developers to build developments with 20 percent affordable units, will generate of thousands of units, the biggest piece of the plan will be investments in existing affordable housing buildings and insuring people are able to stay there for the long term,» Cestero said.
The city boasts the most productive affordable housing program in the nation, and is notable for leveraging development funds through effective public / private partnerships, with significant civic involvement on the part of private foundations.
A development of rapidly built, affordable, all electric passive houses set up to adapt easily to net zero energy, the scheme is also the first by a private developer to meet the Irish Green Building Council's promising new Home Performance Index sustainability certification scheme.
The letter to Congress is signed by public and private organizations from every state, including community development organizations; nonprofit service providers; banks and credit unions; state and national trade associations and chambers of commerce, including the American Bankers Association and other groups representing thousands of members; affordable housing organizations; schools, universities and education nonprofits; city governments, state and local elected officials and agencies; and many other businesses, ranging from very large businesses to small, family - owned businesses.
Moderated by Evergreen chair and community leader Helen Burstyn, affordable housing advocates Councillor Ana Bailão of the City of Toronto, Stephen Deveaux, VP of land development, Tribute Communities and Terry Cooke, president, Hamilton Community Foundation, agreed that partnerships with the private sector are vital to growth in the affordable housing sector.
Julian Sendin, a Senior Researcher at Ndifuna Ukwazi — an activist organisation and law centre working to advance urban land justice — says: «Inclusionary zoning is a basic intervention used by top cities around the world to ensure that private developers build a fair amount of truly affordable housing in exchange for additional development rights.»