City Limits has some answers in their article, “Breaking Down De Blasio’s Expanded Housing Plan.” 100,000 more units will be added to Bill De Blasio’s Affordable Housing plan for a new total of 300,000. This may address some of the concerns raised by advocates, -that the income targets for Affordable Housing do not match the need of extremely low, very…
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Oct
Affordable Housing Options – Always Forward…
03 OctNew Affordable Housing Lotteries: Here are the latest Affordable Housing Lottery updates with deadlines ranging from October 4th, to October 30, 2017. Also note, additional Lotteries remain open until units have been filled so please take a look at the additional listings here. Stone House – October 4th Lottery Application Deadline: Stone House, located at 91 Junius St., bordering Brownsville and…
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Sep
Big Apple Melting Pot – Lottery Updates – Let’s Do This
19 SepHere’s a summary of some of the latest affordable housing updates all gathered from the Curbed NY /Affordable Housing section. If you or someone you know can benefit from this information, please pass it along. Deadlines for lottery applications range from September 27th, to October 2nd to October 31st. Crown Heights 33 Units – September 27th Deadline: Crown Heights has 33…
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Sep
Can We Have an Affordable Housing Cake Where the People that Need it Most Get to Eat it Too?
18 SepWell, we can plan for it… According to the Real Deal Jonathan Rose and Company in partnership with 125 investors including Ford, Deutsche Bank AG’s Community Development Finance Group, an asset management arm of TIAA, Nueveen, private individuals, family offices, pension funds, banks and nonprofit foundations, have raised $233 million for a fund dedicated to Affordable Housing. A surge in…
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Aug
Affordable Housing Options – Turn Over a New Leaf
30 AugTurning Over a New Leaf – Affordable Housing Options in NYC Take a look at the Available Affordable Housing units now accepting applications for Lotteries throughout NYC in this article from Curbed NY, “Where to Find Affordable Housing Units in NYC…A comprehensive guide to New York City’s affordable housing lotteries.” It is comprehensive and includes a map! Two of the…
30
Aug
Time to Transform – Affordable Housing Options
30 AugIt’s Transformation Time – Affordable Housing Options Here’s a look at Affordable Housing Units at 555Ten, located on 41st and 10th. Extell Development and SLCE Architects created the 600 unit building, and now offering an additional 90 units of Affordable Housing. where applications are being accepted until October 23rd, 2017. Combined with the previous 120 units, Extell is providing so…
30
Aug
The New Look of Affordable Housing
30 AugThis is 80/20 Housing Now Transformed to 75/25… See that triangle shaped building? It has 142 units of Affordable Housing and they just added another 36. That moves this building, Via 57 West, located at 625 W. 57th St., where Bjarke Ingels was the Architect and the Durst Organization the Developers, from 80/20 to 75/25 housing, with 25% of the…
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Aug
NYC – $1.65 Million for Affordable Housing Vacant Land Use –
14 AugNYC Allocates 1.65 Million for Affordable Housing -Vacant Land New York’s latest Affordable Housing innovation comes through its’ vacant land, particularly in gentrifying neighborhoods. HPD is allocating $1.65 million in grants for Community Land Trusts (CLT ) in all NYC boroughs. These monies come from a pool of $3.5 million in bank settlements Attorney General Eric Schniederman negotiated and was…
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Jul
Update on Mayor De Blasio’s 10 Year Affordable Housing Plan
28 JulInside the article from the Wall Street Journal – “New York City Officials Say Affordable Housing Push is Working.” Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen and other housing officials stated, construction has begun on 20,800 new low & moderate income housing units in NY and 4,145 new units have been completed since 2014, the start of the initiative. Though an estimated 7,500…
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Jul
Girls Invent Solar Panel Tents for People Who are Homeless
16 JulThis is a truly inspiring story and accomplishment by the “DIY Girls” which stands for “Do It Yourself” Girls who’ve just invented, for homeless people, a solar paneled tent that converts into a backpack. It comes equipped with “button powered lights, two USB ports a micro-USB port and…testing a sanitizing UVC light…” Yeah. Quite awesome. DIY began in 2012, with…