Sentences with phrase «touted affordable housing plan»

His highly - touted affordable housing plan has focused on production rather than preservation, produced units that will not be affordable for too many low and moderate - income New Yorkers, and will unleash the forces of gentrification and displacement in marginal neighborhoods which will see an influx of market - rate housing.

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In Albany, Cuomo touted his own affordable housing plan, which will dedicate $ 10 billion to the creation of 100,000 new affordable housing units statewide over the next five years.

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.

He touted $ 20 million he plans to spend statewide on homelessness and supportive and affordable housing, and planned revamps for Penn Station and the Javits Center, saying he was offering «unprecedented resources.»

The mayor touted the number of affordable apartment units - 20,325 - as a one - year record, and far from anything seen in the city since Mayor Ed Koch's ambitious housing plans of the «80s.

But he touted accomplishments in his first term such as universal prekindergarten, his affordable housing plan — which he recently announced is ahead of schedule — increased high school graduation rates, overall crime being down and a drop in the use of the stop and frisk policing method are rooted in maintaining the city's nature.

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.