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Habitat Container Magazine Smart and Sustainable Habitats Winter 2017
Habitat Container Magazine November 1, 2017

The new plan introduces initiatives that accelerate the creation of the promised 200,000 affordable homes by two years–by 2022 instead of its original date–and identify a new goal of 300,000 homes by 2026–40 percent of which will be new construction and 60 percent preserved. The new housing plan was announced at New Settlement Apartments in the Bronx, the site of nearly 900 affordable homes across 15 buildings. Built during the Koch Administration, the buildings are being rehabilitated and affordability will be extended for all 893 apartments for an additional 60 years.
Housing New York 2.0 will require the addition of $150 million a year to the current four-year financial plan, bringing the city’s investment in achieving the new and improved goal to about $1.3 billion a year over the next nine years.
Since the launch of Housing New York in 2014, the city has financed the creation or preservation of affordable homes for over 78,000 households, putting it on track to secure more affordable housing in the first four years of the current administration than in any comparable period since 1978. The city has also tripled the share of affordable housing for households earning less than $25,000 and doubled funding for housing construction and preservation.
6-Richmond, county eye ‘MicroPADs’ for transitional housing
RICHMOND — A “MicroPAD” delivered in front of City Hall on Tuesday by a San Francisco developer with long ties to Berkeley is being pitched by local officials as “a bold move to reduce homelessness.” The 8- by 20- foot MicroPAD — “PAD” stands for “Prefabricated Affordable Dwelling” — comes fully furnished with a bathroom and kitchen. The 160-square-foot unit “can serve as an affordable, scalable and livable supportive- housing option for the area’s homeless residents,” according to a joint announcement by Richmond and Contra Costa County of Tuesday’s unveiling, which featured speeches by Mayor Tom Butt; county Supervisor John
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