Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a significant residential milestone Monday—the preservation and construction of a total of 100,000 affordable housing units. The announcement was made during an official celebration of “affordable housing day.”
The news means the city is on track to meet the goals set forth in its ambitious New Housing Marketplace Plan, which aims to create or preserve 165,000 affordable housing units by 2014. The plan was created in 2003 and expanded four years ago. Despite the recession, the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development have been able to tap public and private funding to help the city reach its goals.
Although the 100,000th unit was competed at a new, 50-apartment rental development at 761 E. 214th St. in the Bronx, the mayor made the formal announcement Monday morning at the groundbreaking event for Via Verde/The Green Way, a mixed-income 221-unit rental and co-op building in the South Bronx. Mr. Bloomberg was joined by HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, HPD Commissioner Rafael Cestero and New York City Housing Development Corp. President Mark Jahr, as well as other public and affordable housing officials.
“Marking the completion of the 100,000th unit underscores the city's relentless commitment to building affordable housing,” said Abby Jo Sigal, vice president and New York director at Enterprise Community Partners, an affordable housing nonprofit, which provided $50,000 in grants to support the green development of Via Verde and the design competition that was held for the project. “As a New Yorker, I am proud of the New Housing Marketplace Plan. It is the most ambitious and aggressive housing plan in the nation.”
See, if you don't preserve the existing affordable housing stock, then building new ones doesn't really help much. So the "100,000th" unit is really just....
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Hoping you will post bloombergs call he took at the 311 center for their 100 millionth call in which he couldn't help anybody. More cute PR nonsense from the screw the city mayor.
Where are these fabulous affordable apartments? I don't see them anywhere.
I see building owners taking buildings out of Mitchell-Lama programs. Forcing out tenants to create market rate luxury apartments.
I see developers building more and more luxury high rises and luxury condos.
I hear developers making promises to include affordable apartments in their building plans then never fulfill their promise.
Where are these fabulous affordable apartments?
This story was nothing more than a publicity stunt for Mayor Moneybags.
Big deal. Affordable to whom??????
I take umbrage with your caption, Crappy. It should say Cow Shit since Bloomturd is so in touch with his feminine side.
you have to provide so much financial and personal information they might as well also make the applicant submit to a colonscopy. why would anyone's landlord have that much information on someone? this is going back to the serf days.
AND if you have been to housing court even to get repairs or have any credit issues you are bumped from the list.
after giving stacks of paper, then you are put in a lottery, no promise of an apartment. which is bs anyhow since the paid off management company open the envelopes.
I know someone who used to work at the DHCR get one of these apartments. I wonder why he was able to get it so quickly?
what about all the sad homeless people and those people who have been bumped from the Section 8 list? what about the people who are about to have their section 8 taken away?
this just more lies and propaganda from a fascist. He doesn't live in our city for real like we do.
You want affordable housing?
Cut taxes wasted supporting tweeder programs.
Overnight 100,000s can afford better living.
Right you are, Snake. Let's start with Flushing Commons and Wallets Point! After that the sky's the limit.
MOOOO
That's funny. He doesn't look mooish.
ha ha - he doesn't act jewish either
Bloomtard wants everyone to "Cow"tow to him!
Can this be milked any more?
That's funny. He doesn't look gluish. Butter not start with me. I've got plenty more cheesy jokes.
Oy vey! I'm becoming lactose intolerant.
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