Election 2021: Candidates seek support on North Shore as Democratic primary approaches
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
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Two of the city’s mayoral candidates, Shaun Donovan and Kathryn Garcia, canvassed for support around the St. George area.
Garcia, a longtime city employee and former commissioner for the Department of Sanitation from 2014 to 2020, started her day outside the St. George Green Market near the intersection of St. Mark’s Place and Hyatt Street to speak with locals and add to the signatures she needs to get access to the ballot.
“I love Staten Island. I’m out here all the time, and I know that I am the best person in this race to represent Staten Island,” she said. “This is going to be a very important election.”
Photo of the Harry T. Nance Apartments, Courtesy of NYC Department of Housing Preservation & Development
Applications are currently being accepted for 55 affordable apartments at a new sustainable development in Brooklyn’s Ocean Hill neighborhood. The Harry T. Nance Apartments, located at 1860 Eastern Parkway, stands 10 stories and includes a new home for the True Holy Church. New Yorkers earning 30, 40, 50, and 60 percent of the area median income can apply for the units, ranging from studios to three-bedrooms
priced between $457/month and $1,485/month.
Developed jointly by the Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council with the state’s Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development, and RiseBoro Community Partnership, the building features a new 4,913 square foot church sanctuary and two community facilities.
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At the end of 2020, The Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) announced that they will be rescinding the Privately Financed Affordable Senior Housing (PFASH) Term Sheet originally issued on July 18, 2019, which facilitated the development of Affordable Independent Residences for Seniors (AIRS) located within a privately financed project. The AIRS program was created in March 2016 to encourage the development of affordable housing for seniors and permitted increases in zoning floor area under the NYC Zoning Resolution for the creation of such units.
HPD stated in the official announcement that this program is “not compatible with other agency priorities, including ensuring that Privately Financed Homes produced through MIH are open to all income-eligible New Yorkers.”
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Developers have less than a month to submit plans under a senior housing program that the de Blasio administration is ending.
The Department of Housing Preservation and Development announced that it will only accept applications for its Privately Financed Affordable Senior Housing program, or PFASH, through March 30.
Developers then have until June 30 to close on their projects and finalize regulatory agreements with HPD. After that, the agency is pulling the plug on PFASH.
As part of the program, developers are able to increase the scale of a project if they set aside a certain percentage of units as affordable independent residences for seniors, or AIRS.