#affordable-housing

#affordable-housing

Mission Local reported in October that Podell owed $500,000 to different groups involved in building a community arts space at the 681 Florida St. affordable housing project, which sits next to Podell's own market-rate housing project, which sold last year for $119.3 million. Last week, District 9 Supervisor Jackie Fielder asked the city attorney's office to subpoena developer Podell after he failed to confirm his presence at a city hearing on the allegations.

Rowynn Dumont, a curator, painter, photographer and writer, lived in about 25 places around the world before settling in New York in 2017. It's where my community and the art world infrastructure already were, said Dumont. Exhibits in Union Square, the Flatiron District, Long Island City and the Lower East Side featured her work. She also co-founded a popular monthly new wave dance party, Black Rainbow, on the Lower East Side that would go until 10am.

Last month, plans were submitted for Whitechapel Healthcare and Research Campus, a £750m development that would provide homes for key workers and supposedly address needs for more green spaces and community facilities. The proposal for the campus comes from investment firm BGO in collaboration with PLP Architecture and Barts Health NHS Trust. It's part of the newly announced Barts Life Science Cluster.

For too long, overburdensome regulations have made it too hard, not just to build homes, but the places people work and the infrastructure our future depends upon, she said.

Two veteran real estate firms are eyeing a proposal to produce well over 400 homes at an office building site in San Jose in a fresh indication that housing conversion efforts remain of interest to developers. The potential development site is at 3550 North First St. in San Jose, a property that is owned by an affiliate of LBA Realty, Santa Clara County real estate documents show.

We're doing something that hasn't been done in decades providing low-interest loans to build the affordable homes Londoners desperately need.

Rather than tinker with this, let's go big and make a real impact, Shapiro told legislators in his annual state-of-the-state address Tuesday. We need hundreds of thousands of new homes.

Some people apparently didn't want affordable housing for seniors at the former Mission-Bernal Big Lots, so they appealed the project at the Board of Supervisors, but the supes rejected their appeal. The appellants' argument claimed the senior housing would reduce the size of a little-used adjacent private park, and the supervisors rejected the appeal unanimously. [48 Hills] We now know the identity of the formerly anonymous organizer of Saturday's March for Billionaires, and it's AI startup founder Derik Kauffman.

Affordable housing developers in California are met with a lot of demands: pay for sidewalks and extra sewer lines, make sure there's money for parks and art projects, don't forget schools and subways. "If we could have instead reinvested that $1.2 billion into new affordable housing, that could have been 5,000 families that would be off the streets or stably housed or in a much better condition," said Metcalf, who is also the managing director for the center. "There's a trade-off that we're making."

A decade ago, a multimedia artist from The Bronx got a lucky break. She was one of the winners of a lottery - to which over 53,000 people applied - that allowed her to live in one of the 89 affordable apartments in a stately former public school in East Harlem. At the time, she was living in Staten Island, paying for a space that was smaller, more expensive and more difficult for people who wanted to see her art to visit.

According to the transit advocacy organization, the Transit Costs Project, a $40-billion, 40-year effort would add 41 miles of new subway lines and 64 new stations, resulting in 40,000 units of affordable housing and tens of thousands of more units of market-rate housing without even a single change to the current zoning regulations around the stations.

Sunnyvale's Housing Division is offering $18 million in funding this year for affordable housing developments through its Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). Funding comes from local housing mitigation funds and below market rate housing funds. Eligible projects include the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation and/or predevelopment of affordable housing. NOFA application materials are available on the city's housing webpage at https://bit.ly/4a0KCfI. Eligible rental housing projects must be affordable to lower-income households. Eligible ownership housing projects must be affordable to moderate- and/or lower-income households.

"When I think about the best cities for young adults, I start with what recent high school and college grads actually value: access to jobs, reasonable housing costs, walkable or active social scenes, and the ability to build independence without being financially stretched from day one," says Danielle Andrews, realtor with Realty One Group Next Generation. But where exactly are these young person-friendly spots?

While houseboat dwellers spend significantly less on monthly bills, upfront costs and regular maintenance have to be factored in

You don't have to live long in Williamsburg or Greenpoint to know New York is becoming too expensive for working families. Rents are out of control, and far too many of our neighbors are being priced out of the communities they've called home for generations. As president of the Cooper Park Residents Council, I see every day how the housing crisis affects seniors, parents, and young people who are just trying to stay in the city they love.

A fire early Tuesday morning destroyed one of the buildings at the vacant former Pacific Steel Casting complex in West Berkeley. No one was injured, but dramatic video from the scene showed flames shooting out of the large warehouse next to Interstate 80. (KTVU, Berkeley Scanner, Instagram) Hundreds of students and others protested against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at UC Berkeley on Wednesday. (The Daily Californian)

The New York City Council on Thursday voted to override 17 vetoes that former Mayor Eric Adams issued on his last day of office, Dec. 31, 2025.

CIVIC CENTER - CITY COUNCILMEMBER SANDY Nurse's Community Opportunity to Purchase Act will not become city law, after a veto by former Mayor Eric Adams, reports Gothamist . Although the bill passed through the Council, it did not have enough support to override the veto, despite efforts by new Mayor Zohran Mamdani to sway councilmembers. New Council Speaker Julie Menin said she would only hold override votes on legislation that had already garnered the necessary support.

Google cofounder Sergey Brin is one of the many California-based billionaires pouring millions into donations ahead of the state's proposed wealth tax. Brin, along with other tech executives, venture capitalists, and philanthropists, donated a combined $35 million to ballot measure committees in January, supporting affordable housing ballots in California, per a disclosure seen by Business Insider. The disclosure was filed by the coalition "Building a Better California." Brin was the largest contributor in the filing, donating $20 million. Others donated large sums on various days in January, like former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and PayPal CEO Max Levchin, who donated $2 million and $1 million, respectively.

In an attempt to assuage concerns that the proposed four-story building to replace the shuttered Western Plywood warehouse at 2600 Harrison Street in the Mission is incompatible with the "design, scale and mass" of the neighborhood, Kerman Morris Architects has redesigned the project. The new design reduces the street-level wall along Harrison, includes a more open Production, Distribution & Repair (PDR) space, and adds an area with benches and raised planters along the street.

BOERUM HILL - AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING lottery opened for 23 newly built apartments at 556 Baltic Street, a 12-minute walk from the Atlantic Ave-Barclays Center subway station, with rents starting at $1,020 a month, reports. The building includes studios, one-bedroom and two-bedroom units available to households of one to five people earning between $40,595 and $175,000 annually. Amenities include in-unit washers and dryers, central air, gym,

Tamien Station Apartments is San Jose's first new transit-oriented housing development in more than 20 years. Situated next to the Tamien Light Rail and Caltrain station on Lick Avenue, the project offers 135 units that connect residents directly to public transportation for easier commutes and daily travel. Units include one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments available to families earning below 60 percent of the area median income.

District 5 Supervisor Bilal Mahmood is calling for more transparency at the San Francisco Mayor's Office of Housing after he discovered that the department had "lost track" of about $5 million sitting in an account waiting to be used for an affordable housing project in the Tenderloin. The city approved a development project with 85 affordable housing units at 101 Hyde St., a former post office, in 2015. The city approved a development project with 85 affordable housing units at 101 Hyde St., a former post office, in 2015. The building has been in the city's possession for nearly as long: Shorenstein Properties bought the site in 2016 and gave it to the city that year in a deal to fulfill its affordability requirements for a separate project.

Marvel actor Dominic Cooper is one of many high-profile public figures who has voiced concerns about developer Acorn's plan to build 20 terraced homes and 25 flats on the Blackheath station car park site. Dominic Cooper (Ian West/PA) The plans would see the car park capacity reduced from 162 spaces to only 17, while the development itself would deliver 21.3 per cent affordable' housing by habitable room. Lewisham Council's Planning Committee has been advised by planning officers to grant permission at a meeting on Tuesday, but the plans have been strongly opposed by locals and celebrities alike.

I met Carole Guscott, a retired former carer, on a clear winter's morning in the Somerset town of Minehead. She was walking her whippet, Gracie, on the way back to her new flat, past the local Premier Inn and on to a cul de sac called Rainbow Way. I knew as soon as I saw it, she told me. I just thought: I can make this place my home.'