Sentences with phrase «vacant housing in»

He also stated that the census showed improbably high numbers of vacant housing in vital neighborhoods such as Jackson Heights, Queens.

Project Hermès is a site - specific installation in a vacant house in La Jolla, California based on transcribed conversations between Eloisa Haudenschild in La Jolla and Mark Bradford in Los Angeles that took place from January to July 2013.

Schwerd wove human hair extensions that she found in her neighborhood after the hurricane into sculptural renderings of vacant houses in the Ninth Ward neighborhood.

So Mayor Byron W. Brown recently unveiled a $ 100 million five - year plan to rip down 5,000 houses, about half of all the vacant houses in the city, which ranks second only to St. Louis in the percentage of vacant properties per capita nationwide.

«If you have a vacant house in winter with the heat turned down to 50, chances are someone will make a very low offer,» Loren Keim, a real estate broker, told the Associated Press.

Bing says that up to 12,000 vacant houses in the city pose dangers to the community; vacant homes can become an invitation to criminals and predators to move in.

Saw a vacant house in my farm area.

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At one point, Shanghai economist Andy Xie cited local media reports that some 65 million urban homes reported zero electricity consumption over a six - month period, suggesting there are enough vacant homes in China to house 200 million people.

Especially in view of the fact that some of the vacant housing units are permitted to grow decrepit.

April 28, 2018 • In communities where both housing and fresh food are needed, the fight over valuable vacant land is prompting policy reform — and tense collaboration — between developers and gardeners.

-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless persoin which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless persoin peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless persoIn Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

«When the house burglaries happen, they break into one house and they're stashing stolen property in some of these vacant homes.

And this I did, my friends; this I did, sprinting out of the house in the direction of church, mostly thrilled at the success of my devious plan thus far, but with a tiny dark roil somewhere near my spleen or gall bladder; and headlong went I through the little alley behind the Murphys» house, and toward the small bedraggled woods behind the firehouse, not even a forest but more like an overgrown vacant lot.

It surprises me that I've started to tolerate them, but when we first moved into our house, which was vacant for about a month before our move - in, there were these gigantic non-web-making spiders that were brown and hairy and would run (yes, RUN) across the floor if you opened the door at night and they were near.

You are looking at a rare occurence in central New Mexico: vacant land being laser - leveled to make an alfalfa field rather than a housing development.

At the time, the two houses adjacent to us on either side where are vacant so I decided to be nice and shovel the sidewalk in front of all three houses to help the mail carrier out.

He lives on Dickson Street in North St. Louis, a neighborhood under siege: vacant, crumbling houses, bars where you could get your throat cut if you even walked in the wrong way, packs of sky - high dudes looking for a score.

Many people have lost their homes in recent years - I know in my area, there are houses that sit vacant from foreclosure.

Currently, many of Lombard's activities are being held in a vacant elementary school building, but School District 44 officials have indicated the former Fairwood School might be needed to house students after the Park District's lease expires next year.

The village, which many believe has one of the most aggressive annexation policies in DuPage County, has incorporated 28 homes and a vacant parcel along Crescent since 1995 and annexed 64 houses and two vacant lots in Lambert Farms since 1996.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency is seeking a summary judgment in its case against Chicago's vacant building ordinance before the city even files a response to the lawsuit.

The Cuomo administration announced $ 91 million in low - income loans and tax credits for 33 affordable housing projects, including $ 4.4 million to assist in the «adaptive re-use» of Albany's vacant Philip Livingston Magnet Academy.

As the nation's capital struggles with a homeless crisis, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson plans to introduce legislation as soon as this week calling for a study into converting a vacant residence hall blocks from the US Capitol into cheap housing for the well - paid politicians, some of whom are sleeping in their offices to save cash.

NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer held a press conference in front of a vacant lot on West 115th Street to criticize the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development for «dragging its feet» on creating affordable housing on empty city - owneHousing Preservation and Development for «dragging its feet» on creating affordable housing on empty city - ownehousing on empty city - owned land.

New York state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman was in Newburgh Friday to announce the launch of a pilot program to transform vacant homes into affordable housing.

Espaillat said at least 14 sites in both Washington Heights and Inwood and 52 vacant lots could be transformed into 100 percent affordable housing.

Mayor Brown's surprising call for a delay in razing seven vacant houses on Busti Avenue to make way for the proposed construction of an expanded Peace Bridge Plaza is raising eyebrows.

Last year, a yearlong investigation by Newsday and News 12 Long Island found Long Island municipalities had spent at least $ 2.3 million to clean, board up and demolish vacant, foreclosed houses in 2014.

With vacant seats counting towards the party that previously held the seat, the New Hampshire House held a difference in partisan balance between Democrats and Republican of 40 seats, which amounted to 10 percent of the chamber.

Tennessee House of Representatives: Of the 99 seats in the House, Republicans held 64, Democrats held 34, and one was vacant.

A longstanding East Hampton Housing Authority plan for affordable housing on a vacant 4.6 - acre site on the north side of Montauk Highway in Amagansett underwent preliminary review by the East Hampton Town Planning Board on NHousing Authority plan for affordable housing on a vacant 4.6 - acre site on the north side of Montauk Highway in Amagansett underwent preliminary review by the East Hampton Town Planning Board on Nhousing on a vacant 4.6 - acre site on the north side of Montauk Highway in Amagansett underwent preliminary review by the East Hampton Town Planning Board on Nov. 15.

Speaking in his home base of Syracuse, Hawkins decried the decline of public housing options, standing between two weed - infested vacant lots.

In 2011, the state approved land bank legislation to help communities deal with vacant and abandoned properties after the housing crisis, but until recently the effort lacked the needed funding.

Although the state constitution says the legislature appoints a successor when the attorney general's post is vacant, in reality the Democrats who lead the Assembly make the decision, because with over one hundred members, they have the largest faction in both houses.

In December, Nassau OTB selected the vacant Fortunoff building in Westbury to house the VLTs, but abandoned the project in the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officialIn December, Nassau OTB selected the vacant Fortunoff building in Westbury to house the VLTs, but abandoned the project in the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officialin Westbury to house the VLTs, but abandoned the project in the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officialin the face of strong opposition from local, county and state officials.

He wants a moratorium on building public and subsidized housing because he said public housing is the cause of an abundance of vacant buildings in the city.

In the Weeksville Cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beachwood Organization will develop one building with 44 units on three vacant lots.

He said that 90 percent of the vacant properties that were in the city's inventory two years ago remain undeveloped because the Department of Housing Preservation & Development missed most of its own targets for transferring them.

Activate Potential in AirTrain / LIRR Transit Hub — incentives for absentee property owners to activate vacant and derelict sites near current AirTrain / LIRR transit hub for development of new housing, retail and business incubator space.

On May 17, California held an election to fill the vacant seat in the 36th U.S. House district.

The plan calls for the creation of low - equity housing cooperatives, reinvesting in NYCHA housing, developing community land trusts, creating tax abatements for developers and entrepreneurs who bring business into Central Brooklyn and hire local residents must be encouraged to hire locally, offering quality careers to residents and a moratorium on wealthy developers being allowed to buy up apartment buildings and leave the units vacant.

In the Melrose - Concourse cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beechwood Organization will develop two buildings with 36 units on two vacant lots.

The homeowner relief from Bank of America will target low - income communities where many residents have mortgages insured by the Federal Housing Administration, and includes plans to turn over vacant foreclosed properties to land banks and municipalities, and to chip in toward their repair or demolition.

A white paper issued by the Community United for True Affordable Housing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan commuHousing, a coalition of Upper Manhattan elected officials and community leaders who took part in Sunday's rally near a vacant lot on West 172nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, said the city should provide the area with the same level of housing provided in other Manhattan commuhousing provided in other Manhattan communities.

The town hall - style meeting was held on Dec. 9 at Davidson Community Center, a short walk from the vacant house on Osborne Place where several young men were were viciously beaten in early October.

In a 10 - minute address, he went on to list what he has accomplished since he was first elected in 2005 — lower taxes, a budget surplus, the revival of the waterfront, opening Main Street to traffic, providing 22,000 summer jobs for youth, clearing vacant houses, adopting the Green Code and the boom in building and economic developmenIn a 10 - minute address, he went on to list what he has accomplished since he was first elected in 2005 — lower taxes, a budget surplus, the revival of the waterfront, opening Main Street to traffic, providing 22,000 summer jobs for youth, clearing vacant houses, adopting the Green Code and the boom in building and economic developmenin 2005 — lower taxes, a budget surplus, the revival of the waterfront, opening Main Street to traffic, providing 22,000 summer jobs for youth, clearing vacant houses, adopting the Green Code and the boom in building and economic developmenin building and economic development.

An audit to be officially released today by Comptroller Scott Stringer faults NYC as being too slow through various mayoral administrations in transferring city - owned vacant land to developers to build housing.

Nearly 900 affordable housing units in New York City are sitting vacant, according to a survey by city officials.

REAL ESTATE — «Stringer: NYCHA apartments left vacant for years,» by Capital's Kelly Weill: «Low - income apartments run by the New York City Housing Authority are in high demand, with more than 270,000 applicants on the authority's waiting list.

On February 28, Michigan held a special election to fill the vacant State House seat, 51st district, in Genesee County.