#affordable-housing

#affordable-housing

In an era where living costs seem to rise by the month, the dream of moving or having a second home is feeling more and more out of reach-unless you take advantage of the surprisingly affordable tiny homes Amazon quietly offers. It has an impressive lineup of prefab homes you can order online, get shipped to your doorstep, and have set up and fully livable in only a few hours.

For as long as California has had a housing shortage, pro-housing advocates have decried the burdensome development process that both stifles construction and inflates development costs, leading to more market-rate units than affordable units. But a new Alameda County pilot program called the Scalable Housing Investment Funding Toolkit, or SHIFT, seeks to make more housing for less money with an innovative, first-in-the-state approach to affordable housing.

The plan, put forward by TfL's property arm, Places for London and Barratt Homes, would have seen approximately 300 new homes, including 40% affordable homes, built on the car park and on the light industrial land to the south of the station. The development had been recommended in the planning officer's report, but the councillors voted to reject it. The main reasons were strong local opposition to building over the car park and concerns about the buildings' height.

Stop me if you've heard this before: a Democratic woman wins a major post in a place that had been trending towards the GOP by campaigning on affordability It happened in New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial contests in November. It came closer than expected to happening in a deep-red Tennessee congressional district's special election on last week. And on Tuesday it happened again in Republican-controlled Florida, with a Democrat easily becoming mayor of Miami after 28 years of Republicans in that position.

The comprehensive redevelopment of Great North Leisure Park was proposed to include 20 buildings, the tallest of which would reach 25 storeys tall, as well as incorporating a new leisure centre. The proposal, put forward by Regal London, designated 25% of the new homes as affordable by total habitable rooms, equating to 341 homes. However, a petition this summer calling for a halt to the development received nearly 8,000 signatures.

Upcoming housing and land use-related events: Monday, Dec. 8 at 6 p.m.: Empire State Development will host a public workshop on the latest plans for the Atlantic Yards/Pacific Park project in Brooklyn. . Friday, Dec. 11 at 11 a.m.: The Department of Housing, Preservation and Development will hold a public hearing to solicit feedback on new proposed rules for legalizing basement apartments. . Friday, Dec. 12 at 10 a.m.: The Department of Housing, Preservation and Development will hold a public hearing to solicit feedback on new proposed rules for legalizing basement apartments. .

"The planning set submitted to the City entails necessary modifications to project approvals to make The Rise financially feasible and justify the investment necessary for the construction of buildings and proposed community amenities,"

"As the mayor of a city on the rise, I knew Portland would need an innovative city administrator with a track record of success to unlock a new chapter of safety, innovation, and shared prosperity," Wilson stated in the announcement. "We've found that and more with Raymond Lee. I'm proud to put Lee before my City Council colleagues for their vote, and I'm grateful for their support and enthusiasm as we finalize the confirmation process."

When she's not working at an East Bay grocery store, she's tending a garden, honing her music skills and learning recipes to cook. An athlete who's medaled in track and field and javelin throwing, she helped her bocce team snatch bronze at the Special Olympics Northern California Summer Games in 2024. And when she's not doing all that, she's kicking back with her friends at Irby Ranch, an affordable-housing community in Pleasanton for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD).

The plan has three main components: removing barriers to construction, boosting affordable home production and reducing other housing-related costs. As a remedy, CAP is suggesting reformation to local zoning laws, incentives to local jurisdictions to approve more housing, and expansion of modular and manufactured housing. The federal government can't make you change your zoning requirements, so we designed a program to create strong incentives and disincentives to get more and more communities to undertake the actions to make it faster to build, Negron said.

In the spirit of giving, affordable housing developer Tredway partnered with City Harvest, New York City's first and largest food rescue organization, to distribute more than 500 turkeys and 7,000 pounds of fresh produce including sweet potatoes, peppers and lemons to families in need at the Sea Park Apartment Community, a three-tower complex in Coney Island, on Nov. 25.

"Any information you provide to the city - including your address, email and phone number - will become a matter of public record," an Oct. 20 letter from the park's attorney Paul Beard II warned of a questionnaire sent out by city staff. "If you decide to respond," it continued, "the park may need to depose you" as part of litigation between the two, and "it may be advisable for you to hire counsel."

The affordable housing neighborhood currently being constructed in Willets Point that will include 2,500 affordable housing units and a 25,000-seat football stadium, is nearing completion of its Phase 1 construction plans, which includes 880 affordable housing units spanning two buildings toward the southwest corner of the property, next to Seaver Way and Roosevelt Avenue. The project is spearheaded by the Queens Development Group, a joint venture of real estate developers Related Companies and Sterling Equities, in partnership with the New York City Football Club.

A 545-foot-high mixed-use building is slated to rise at Domino Site B, sandwiched between 1 South First and the Domino Sugar Refinery on the Williamsburg waterfront. It will complete Two Trees' redevelopment of the 11-acre site, which was rezoned in 2014. The development, which does not yet have an address or a name like its neighbors at 325 Kent and 1 Domino Square, will include more than 1,200 units - 315 of which will be income restricted and rent stabilized and earmarked as affordable.

Tower Hamlets has pledged that half of any new homes on its land must be affordable housing and will prioritise family-sized homes over one-bedroom units to help combat gentrification, the Standard can reveal. The borough has said that 40 per cent of any new development that is not on council land will also have to be made up of affordable housing. The council is aiming to build at least 52,095 homes over the next 15 years, delivering nearly 5,000 homes a year.

What is the one thing that makes life possible in New York City? As mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would say, it is affordable housing. This was also true in the 1950s, when three women-all newly single mothers-founded an artist haven in a rowhouse in the East Village, a raw neighbourhood at the time better known for shelters like the Bowery Mission.