Sentences with phrase «require affordable housing units»

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At Pratt, he led many successful community - planning efforts, as well as campaigns to expand affordable housing and create NYC's «inclusionary zoning» program, which requires developers seeking tax breaks to set aside 20 percent of their units for low and moderate income families and pay a living wage to their service workers.

Last week, the group Sustainable Saratoga introduced a zoning amendment that would require new apartment developments to dedicate at least 20 percent of housing stock to «affordable» units.

Mr. de Blasio, in pursuit of his goal to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing in a decade, wanted Albany to renew the tax credit but require all developers getting it to build affordable housing, no matter where their development was, and also wanted the program to include a mansion tax on sales of residences worth $ 1.75 million or more.

The program, which housing advocates see as a giveaway to developers, previously required developers to market affordable units to residents of the surrounding neighborhood before the rest of the city.

Common Council members say they back inclusionary zoning, which requires new housing to set aside a certain percentage of units as affordable housing.

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.

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.

The protest was in response to a 2009 settlement reached between Westchester County and the federal government, requiring the county to build 750 units of affordable housing in wealthy communities.

At the time, de Blasio and REBNY were pushing for a 421 - a revamp that would have required any building in the city that received the tax benefit to reserve some units for affordable housing, as opposed to simply imposing it in parts of the city.

that would have required any building in the city that received the tax benefit to reserve some units for affordable housing, as opposed to simply imposing it in parts of the city.

Developers of these buildings will also be required to set aside between 25 and 30 percent of units as affordable housing, in accordance with suspended legislation that's been held up in Albany.

NEW YORK CITY — The mayor announced an ambitious affordable housing plan during his State of the City speech, complete with 80,000 new units by 2024 and six neighborhoods where developers will be required to build affordable units.

The de Blasio administration's «Mandatory Inclusionary Housing» program would require some new construction to include permanently affordable housing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior hHousing» program would require some new construction to include permanently affordable housing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior hhousing, and their «Zoning for Quality and Affordability» would eliminate parking requirements and increase building heights, among other changes, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable units and senior housinghousing.

During a hearing on Friday, July 8, U.S. District Judge Denise Cote ordered the county to hire a consultant by Aug. 7 in order to complete a settlement - required analysis of impediment, AI, report, which highlights a municipality's assessment of laws, regulations and procedures that affect a location's availability and accessibility to fair and affordable housing units.

Developers in Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn and Queens are required to set aside 20 percent of newly created housing for «affordable» units while developers elsewhere — roughly 84 percent of the city's landscape — can get the benefit without building any affordable units.

The lawsuit requires the county to analyze its zoning laws to find potentially discriminatory practices, and build affordable housing units in some of the county's predominately white towns.

The denial of the county's AI comes despite its success in clearing a hurdle of developing more than the 750 units of affordable housing required in its HUD settlement by the end of 2016.

The proposals, which would require approval by the State Legislature, are central to the mayor's promise to build or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over 10 years.

MIH would require new developments to include housing units that are permanently affordable, while ZQA would allow developers to increase the heights of buildings and reduce parking requirements to help encourage construction of affordable and senior housing.

«By that, I mean affordable housing units should be required as a condition of site approval.

To ensure they are not displaced, the Buffalo Common Council is considering legislation that would require the owners of new multiple - unit developments — especially those benefiting from public financing or tax breaks — to set aside a portion of their units as affordable housing or below market rate.

He also asked why Mayor de Blasio would not have insisted on a rezoning in the area to require affordable housing in the new projects (the developers are voluntarily setting aside 25 % of their units for affordable housing in exchange for tax benefits).

Mandatory Inclusionary Housing would require developers to build affordable units in projects that benefit from city rezonings.

Members said the rezoning plan is the first that has come before the community board since the approval of the city's Mandatory Inclusionary Housing plan, which requires developers to include a portion of affordable units in some new construction.

The city's plan, including Mandatory Inclusionary Housing, would require any new development to set aside at least 25 percent of units as permanently affordable hHousing, would require any new development to set aside at least 25 percent of units as permanently affordable housinghousing.

The new development would fall under the city's new Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program, which requires developers to include a portion of affordable units in some new construction.

«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.

«In addition to these funds,» she said, «the mayor has committed tens of millions of dollars to other city agencies that will directly benefit older New Yorkers, such as to set aside 15,000 affordable housing units targeted to households where older people reside, and a recently announced proposal which will require city and state legislative approval to raise the Senior Citizen Homeowner's Exemption household income eligibility from $ 37,400 to $ 58,400, which would benefit an estimated 32,000 households in New York City.»

It is also possible to mandate that new construction include a certain portion of affordable units; in California, municipalities are required to include planning for affordable housing in their zoning laws.

With markets slowing, U.S. localities might step up inclusionary zoning rules, which require developers to set aside a portion of their new rental or for - sale units for affordable housing.

By requiring municipalities to permit multifamily development in zoning districts suitable for such development, and by establishing a minimum density for those developments, housing production is increased and allows for more affordable units to be built.

In 1974, it passed the country's first inclusionary zoning law requiring most new housing developments to include a minimum percentage of units at affordable prices.