Sentences with phrase «use as affordable housing»

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This small building maybe used as a rental unit of housing or as a place to work; it may also be properly regarded as an example of private sector affordable housing.

The act uses funds collected through records fees to ensure there's money to reimburse dairy farmers for losses, as well as funding for open space, farmland preservation, historic preservation and affordable housing.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

Brown supports the idea of increasing mixed - use housing and affordable housing projects as the city develops.

While Albanese comes from a different camp on policing, there are several issues where de Blasio's two main Democratic challengers agree, such as providing free tuition at CUNY and using a revised local median income to make determinations for affordable housing.

HCR's Rural and Urban Community Investment Fund supports retail, commercial or community facility components of mixed - use affordable housing developments in urban and rural communities statewide, as well as supporting preservation of existing affordable multi-family rental housing in rural areas of the State.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

With affordable housing as scarce as ever, it's time for lawmakers to give prosecutors new tools to stop the menacing — and often dangerous — measures these landlords use to force tenants out of their homes,» Schneiderman said.

Besides, Bill de Blasio is a proven leader who is used to coming from behind,» said Assemblymember Gabriela Rosa, who pointed to the candidate's promise to create thousands of additional units of affordable housing, as well as his emphasis on providing universal pre-kindergarten.

A highly - placed government source told Gay City that de Blasio reversed himself on the bill to court Greenfield's support as chair of the Land Use Committee for his faltering mass re-zoning plan that includes affordable housing.

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.

In a statement to Politico, he said the bill would help prevent landlords from renting affordable housing units as illegal hotels, «and those who use the site without breaking the law will have no problem giving their name to the city.

De Blasio's minimum wage suggestion was described as a «non-starter» and the rail yards de Blasio wanted to use for affordable housing were not available in the «short - term,» the governor's office said.

The development, known as Astoria Cove, is viewed as a coup by the de Blasio administration and left - leaning City Council members — a about - face on the part of City Councilmembers occasioned by a 7 percent increase in the amount of affordable housing housing to built — and an agreement to use organized labor during the construction phase, even as speculation builds that the developer, Alma Realty, could flip the property and some activists question whether enough affordable housing will be built.

Notably, de Blasio has not mentioned his «mansion tax» proposal lately, and no one from the administration indicated to Gotham Gazette that it is still a top priority, despite the fact that de Blasio made it a focus as state budget negotiations progressed and promised to push for it after a budget deal was announced that did not include the surcharge on large residential real estate transactions that the mayor would use to subsidize affordable housing for senior citizens.

The lot on 20th Street In Chelsea needed to be used for affordable housing as promised to the community.

Use the prevalence of chronic absence to identify schools in need of relevant community resources such as pre-K education, afterschool programs, health care and insurance, food & nutrition, affordable housing, free tax preparation and Earned Income Tax Credit outreach.

Most housing assistance programs in Florida, such as HUD's public housing or Section 8 programs and other affordable projects provided by state and local government and nonprofits, use HUD's annual income limits.

The MHA (Making Home Affordable) program was created by the Obama administration, and this program helps people to refinance their houses through the HARP (Home Affordable Refinancing Program) as well as modifying their mortgages using the HAMP (Home Affordable Mortgage Program).

Ontario will also establish a program to identify provincially owned surplus lands for affordable and rental housing, with an eye to using a few specific sites such as the West Don Lands in Toronto for pilot projects.

His work encompasses land use, zoning, affordable housing, and adaptive reuse, and, as a result, is at the forefront of New York City's historic preservation movement.

Tiny homes are a great way to provide affordable housing at reasonable urban densities, in a houseform that can be moved as land uses evolve.

TMBER is the world's first bio brand building system utilizing CLT that produces healthy, quick - to - markets smart - panels and modular units used as solid wood construction structures for a wide variety of purposes like individual homes, affordable housing, student residences, mid and high rise urban developments and everything in between and beyond.

Global Green's initiatives also include greening of affordable housing, schools, and cities, as well as reducing waste in NY, energy use in California, and water use in New Orleans.

«Our project now is creating a viable tiny house community that will help people make the best use of tiny houses as affordable, sustainable housing with long - term, reliable stability about where their tiny houses are located.»

Among cities with station - based bike share systems, 32 % have an income - based discount program, using income thresholds or living in affordable housing as criteria.

24 % of cities have an income - based discount program, using income thresholds or living in affordable housing as criteria.

Rabbi Melchior recently founded Civil Action Forum (Hebrew link), which is calling on the government to use the proceeds from Israel's natural gas deposits to achieve social goals, such as narrowing socio - economic gaps and building affordable housing.

The High Court has already distinguished YL and held that many registered social landlords, in receipt of a large element of public subsidy and used as a means of achieving governmental policy in relation to affordable housing, are, in allocating and managing social housing, exercising public functions.

And, places that have strong demand for housing now — such as downtowns and transit locations — are using creative methods to integrate affordable housing into the mix.

When it inured to their benefit, such as applying for a multi-family property tax exemption that was created to help generate more affordable housing units — they would use the number of bedrooms in a building.

Using the grant money from NAR's Foreclosure Prevention and Response program, the first Short Sale Foreclosure Resources (SFR) course was offered at MetroTex on October 27, 2009, as part of the Texas Affordable Housing Specialist certification.

Now, as a developer of affordable urban housing with projects in 25 U.S. cities, McCormack wants to use CPD's services in other locations.

For years, the term «affordable housing» has been bandied about, but this has been used as a blanket term with little explanation about what criteria it entails.

Since the housing crash of 2008 the FHA home loan program has been the overwhelming choice for first time homebuyers; FHA is also used by experienced buyers as a low down payment affordable alternative.

Their backyard abuts the targeted 32 acres that could be used for apartments and detached single family homes as more affordable options in Tallahassee's limited housing market.

Canadian professional real estate investors use Garden Suites in Canada to create more affordable housing for seniors as well as disable Canadians.

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