Sentences with phrase «toward building the affordable housing»

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Some of Dinkins» accomplishments include creating the city's Economic Development Corporation, launching the «Safe City, Safe Streets» initiative, which many credit with putting New York City on the path toward its recent record crime lows and building many units of affordable housing.

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.

Even if public policy provides incentives for affordable housing development, landlords continue to move toward deregulation and raise the rent in existing buildings.

The Seattle City Council is considering a new tax law that will charge large employers about $ 500 per employee and dedication three - quarters of the resulting tax revenue toward building just under 2,000 affordable housing units in the city.