Sentences with phrase «rental subsidies»

The administration's proposal follows a former rental subsidy program, Advantage, which the state stopped funding in 2011.

Public housing facilities provide tenants with rental subsidies for their units.

The City Council's general welfare committee voted unanimously to pass a resolution this morning calling on the state Assembly and Senate and Governor Andrew Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

In total, the de Blasio administration hopes to save $ 15 million out of the $ 122 million it spent last year on these apartments, redirecting those funds to a new rental subsidy program for the chronically homeless.

The proposal includes a $ 55 gas and sales tax refund to taxpayers, and tax breaks for retired teachers, as well as the expansion of rental subsidies for seniors, housing for homeless veterans and an expansion of early childhood education.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration is expected to outline a new plan today to combat homelessness by providing rental subsidies to those living in homeless shelters.

If after a year, [the homeless residents] are still here, more than likely they will come back to DSS and they will need rental subsidy if they're not employed.

It's also hurting the most vulnerable among us — eliminating low - income rental subsidies and emergency homeless shelters, reducing unemployment benefits, squeezing federal aid for poor schools, and cutting nutrition assistance for poor women and infants.

Roughly $ 20 million of that would have gone to the AIDS Institute, which is part of the Department of Health, and $ 50 million would have gone toward rental subsidies for low - income individuals living with HIV / AIDS.

(He prefers Assemblyman Daniel Hevesi's rental subsidy proposal).

The city is still waiting for the state to approve a plan submitted in July of 2015 for $ 500 million in homelessness intervention programs, including a measure that would expand rental subsidies to homeless victims of domestic violence.

Both HCR and OMH are offering rental subsidies, and construction financing is being provided by US Bank.

Because it will not be a pleasant one for those who lost there rental subsidys.

Broome County welfare officials found out about the families when they came into the Social Services office to apply for other benefits but not rental subsidies.

Among them, a proposed rental subsidy program that would serve 801 families annually, for a total of 3,204 families over three years.

Which, while clearly beneficial, would be far less than the 5,000 families served each year under Advantage, a Bloomberg - era rental subsidy program that ended because of a dearth of state funding.

By preventing or obtaining more time in foreclosures or evictions, obtaining, protecting, or increasing rental subsidies, and assisting clients with other housing issues, legal aid providers avoided $ 1.9 million in costs to homeless shelters.

Upwards of 7 million, however, will have access to federal rental subsidies, alleviating the strain — though to an extent.

Manitoba Tipi Mitawa will assist low to moderate income First Nations families» transition into a home ownership option by converting rental subsidies into mortgage subsidies and providing home buyer down payment assistance to potential homeowners.

De Blasio has extolled HRA programs like the new rental subsidy program LINC, which Banks developed to replace Advantage, the defunct subsidy program which was dissolved in 2011 amid a city - state squabble over funding.

While there are government programs to facilitate the new construction of affordable units (affordable at less than 60 percent of area median income (AMI)-RRB- as well as the use of rental subsidies for the lowest income households, they are insufficient to meet the demand.

Other incentives from the city include a $ 6.7 million loan, $ 1.4 million in Low Income Housing Tax Credits and $ 650,000 from the Low Income Housing Trust Fund, which provides rental subsidies to landlords who rent to low - income tenants.

The stop in shelter openings came just as the homeless population was surging in early 2015, and the de Blasio administration was relying on optimistic estimates of how quickly new rental subsidy programs would slow the flow of people needing emergency shelter.

The package also includes $ 15 million for a new pilot project that aims to increase housing allowances to try to prevent evictions as well as $ 40 million in new funding for rental subsidies needed to prevent people from ending up in the city's, already crowded homeless shelters.

Apartments should be leased to homeless families instead, they say, with the help of a rental subsidy.

The city ended its rental subsidy program for homeless families, called Advantage, in 2011 after it lost state and federal funding.

How much money Cuomo will dedicate to supportive housing, rental subsidies, and other relevant measures is to - be-seen.

Despite the measure's language, a spokesman for Gov. Cuomo told the Wall Street Journal that the governor is open to discussing the creation of a new rental subsidy program to replace the Advantage program, which was cut in 2011 and caused a surge in the city's homeless shelter population.

Bill de Blasio's homeless commissioner, Gilbert Taylor, told the City Council this afternoon that he plans to travel to Albany tomorrow to lobby for permission to use state funds for rental subsidies, even as the Cuomo administration suggested it's too late for significant changes this year.

The mayor has previously criticized Cuomo, with whom he has been feuding, for exacerbating the homeless problem in the city by cutting a $ 68 million rental subsidy program in 2011.

City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito did not blame Governor Andrew Cuomo for keeping the city from using state funds to pay for homeless families» rental subsidies.

The city has called on the state Assembly and Senate and Cuomo to change state budget language to allow New York City to use state funds to pay for rental subsidy programs for the homeless.

I want to discuss people losing their rental subsidy.

A rep for the governor said he has budgeted $ 906 million in homelessness spending, including $ 185 million for rental subsidy programs.

The de Blasio administration and homelessness advocates also fault the elimination of funding in 2011 for the rental subsidy program Advantage — an action they describe as a costly error in judgment on the part of both the administrations of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

De Blasio blamed the problem on former Mayor Michael Bloomberg for cutting a rental subsidy program that kept people in their homes, as well as media coverage and public perception.

While the mayor has often blamed the homelessness problem on former mayors Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg, who eliminated a rental subsidy program called Advantage in 2011 after Cuomo cut its state funding, de Blasio did not fault anyone by name in his speech Thursday.

In addition to the rental subsidy, the mayor is also looking to reverse a Bloomberg administration policy that stopped giving homeless families priority for available public housing units.

Members of Brooklyn - based VOCAL - NY said the governor isn't doing enough to back up pledges made in recent years to spend billions of dollars for affordable housing, shelters and rental subsidies.

This week, he ruffled more feathers when he declared that it was «too late» to change language in the state budget that would allow the city to use state funds to pay for rental subsidies to help homeless families leave the shelter system.

«There is nothing stopping State officials from removing the restrictive budget rule that prevents a new rental subsidy,» he said in a statement forwarded by Mr. de Blasio's former campaign spokesman.

There'd be $ 250 million over five years for repairs and improvements at Mitchell - Lama properties, $ 500 million over five years to build 6,000 supportive housing units statewide, and $ 44 million for rental subsidies for domestic violence victims.

But her candor raised eyebrows when, during the news conference at which Mr. de Blasio announced her new position, she criticized the Bloomberg administration for canceling a rental subsidy program and for «many things» she would have done differently.

The plan includes $ 220 million in earmarked funds over the next four years that were originally set aside for rental subsidies for domestic violence victims, seniors and working families who can't afford rent, according to the newspaper.

With respect, the question is not limited to determining S.A.'s eligibility for rental assistance but is also whether MVHC can take the Trust into consideration in determining how to exercise its discretion as to which of the eligible applicants should receive a rental subsidy.

Combined the housing complexes will provide 165 units, 153 of which will be HUD 202 Section 8 rental subsidies.

The American Homeownership and Economic Opportunity Act, H.R. 5640, lets low - income households use federal Section 8 rental subsidies to amass homeownership downpayment funds.