Sentences with phrase «real affordability»

At 11:30 a.m., low - wage tenants and workers and members of Real Affordability for All and building and construction unions call for real affordable housing and good union jobs from NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, City Hall Park, near Broadway and Park Place, Manhattan.

The protest was organized by Real Affordability for All, a coalition of 50 groups organized by the Metropolitan Council on Housing.

All are members of the larger initiative known as Real Affordability For All.

The housing advocates — a coalition of groups under the banner Real Affordability for All — are looking to emulate the approach favored by the anti-Rikers protesters.

At 1 p.m., the Housing advocacy coalition Real Affordability for All (RAFA), New York Communities for Change, and the NYC Building & Construction Trades Council will join Assemblyman Francisco Moya to call for reform of the Scaffold Law and the so - called «Sunshine» bill, LCA pressroom, state Capitol, Albany.

At noon, East New York residents march through the streets of East New York for a rezoning plan that that creates real affordability standards for the neighborhood, Atlantic and Pennsylvania Avenues, Brooklyn.

«In the days ahead, we hope to reach an agreement with city officials on how to achieve deeper real affordability and job standards in Mayor de Blasio's housing plan.»

Maritza Silva - Farrell, campaign director for the group Real Affordability for All, said she's not surprised that affordable housing is the top issue for residents.

«The lack of real affordability at Astoria Cove is a major step backward, not forward, for the entire city.

«We are postponing this action, not canceling it, based on productive movement in current negotiations,» said Maritza Silva - Farrell, campaign director of Real Affordability for All, in a statement sent late Tuesday.

The mayor agreed to complete a study to find ways to deepen levels of affordability outside of MIH in exchange for support of his plans by Real Affordability for All, a coalition originally opposed to the proposal.

Groups such as Real Affordability for All are calling on the mayor to use density bonuses to entice developers to add more affordability to their projects.

Also at 10 a.m., members of Real Affordability for All release a report showing that the affordability crisis has worsened for low - income and moderate - income New Yorkers during de Blasio's term, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

«Christy Clark has now called our housing market a «bubble» and finally admits there's a real affordability crisis for people and families, but her actions have done nothing to make the rental or purchase of a home more affordable,» Horgan said.

Now, the Real Affordability for All coalition, led by New York Communities for Change and Bertha Lewis» The Black Institute, is attacking de Blasio and his Deputy Mayor Alicia...

Also at 11 a.m., the Real Affordability for All launches backing de Blasio's affordable housing plan, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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.

At 11 a.m., the Real Affordability for All Coalition and its allies unveil a new plan for how the de Blasio administration can invest in real affordability and use public resources more effectively, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 1 p.m., Real Affordability for All, top elected officials (like NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and Public Advocate Tish James), union leaders, workers, and local residents, will call on de Blasio to make substantial changes to his housing plan to ensure real affordability and good union jobs for residents who live in neighborhoods that will be rezoned, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Also at 11 a.m., struggling small businesses owners from low - income neighborhoods of NYC join leaders and members of Real Affordability for All in opposing de Blasio's housing and rezoning plan, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

At 10 a.m., Low - Wage Workers for Real Affordability will gather at City Hall to reject de Blasio's housing plan, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Real Affordability for All, the lead group attacking NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's affordable housing plan as insufficiently affordable, has alienated some of its members, some of whom have quietly dropped out of the coalition.

«As community organizers and advocates, our job has been to push hard and raise our voices for the real affordability and good jobs that low - income New Yorkers so desperately need,» Maritza Silva - Farrell, campaign director of Real Affordability for All, said in a statement.

Now, the Real Affordability for All coalition, led by New York Communities for Change and Bertha Lewis» Black Institute, is attacking de Blasio and his Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen for «a Goldman Sachs model of development» that promotes gentrification.

Council members and advocacy groups are fighting for deeper levels of affordable housing in the plan and de Blasio received a victory over the weekend when a leading critic of the proposals, Real Affordability for All, agreed to endorse the plan in exchange for a study to determine ways to make the proposals more affordable.

Now, the Real Affordability for All coalition, led by New York Communities for Change and Bertha Lewis» The Black Institute, is attacking de Blasio and his Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen for «a Goldman Sachs model of development» that promotes gentrification.

Through intense advocacy and organizing, we demanded a better plan with deeper affordability, and that's what the New York City Council has secured,» said Maritza Silva - Farrell, campaign director of Real Affordability for All.

Real Affordability for All, the leading coalition opposed to de Blasio's plan, had pushed for another option that would make 30 percent of units affordable to people making 30 percent of AMI.

Real Affordability for All, a coalition of tenant and antipoverty organizations, embraced the mayor's 10 - year zoning plan.

Real tenants who have been left behind of a housing plan that should be benefiting them in the first place,» Real Affordability for All spokeswoman Maritza Silva Farrell told the Observer.

In response to this epidemic, the Real Affordability for All coalition will march this Wednesday, August 20th, in support of preserving real affordability in private developments and in public housing, and ensuring that all new housing remains permanently affordable to people living in those neighborhoods.

Some opponents want «real affordability,» saying the units are still too costly for working - class New Yorkers.

Real Affordability for All, a collective of more than 50 activist groups like New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York, blasted the agreement for not including enough affordable housing.

«All communities deserve a much greater level and depth of real affordability than what was approved for Astoria Cove.»

After the publication of this story, a spokesperson for Real Affordability for All, a coalition at the City Hall rally which includes New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York, denied that members of NYCC and Make the Road were among those that shouted at Mr. de Blasio.

The spokesperson emphasized the group supports Mr. de Blasio's affordable housing vision: «Our goal is to advance a shared vision for real affordability and good jobs throughout the city.

«No groups involved in the Real Affordability for All coalition shouted at the Mayor today.

Other groups earlier today decided to shout and disrupt the City Hall event — a move that Real Affordability for All does not support or condone in any way,» the spokesperson said.

We support the Mayor's overall vision for neighborhood rezoning and want to ensure that his plan leads to real affordability in new housing and good jobs for local residents.»

The «Real Affordability for All» rally outside City Hall today.

Several dozen members of various community groups organized under the coalition of «Real Affordability for All» gathered on the steps of City Hall to voice their concerns about Mr. de Blasio's housing program, which aims to build and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next decade.

Real Affordability for All issued a report Wednesday saying that de Blasio's affordable housing plan builds approximately the same percentage of units for families making 30 percent of the area median income or AMI, than the housing proposal of his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg.

«There's no question that in Canada we are in a real affordability crisis right now,» says John Andrew, a professor of urban planning at Queen's University.