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Key programs include the New York Main Street program, which provides financial assistance and technical support to help communities revitalize traditional main streets and downtown areas, and the federal Community Development Block Grant program, which offers funds to local governments, nonprofit organizations, and community-based ...
In August 2013, KHCC was awarded a $1.9 million grant by the City of New York for the construction of a new building to expand its facilities due to growing demand for early childhood, abuse and special needs programs. The new facility will allow 200 additional families to get services, and will accommodate both autistic children and young adults.
In 2007, the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), in cooperation with Breaking Ground began construction on a $59 million, 99,000-square-foot (9,200 m 2) supportive housing complex at 133 Pitt Street on the Lower East Side that will be Manhattan's first such LEED Silver development. Designed by Kiss + Cathcart ...
In 1975, the New York City fiscal crisis caused most of the funding programs for co-op programs to collapse. The Association of Neighborhood Housing Developers (ANHD) and UHAB aided the tenants in the programs, however only 48 of the 286 formed or prospective low-income co-ops in 1973 were eventually completed. [ 13 ]
Originally founded as a public/private partnership between the New York State Unified Court System and the Fund for the City of New York, the Center for Justice Innovation creates operating programs to test new ideas and solve problems, performs original research to determine what works, and provides assistance to justice reformers around the ...
In 1964, the U.S. poverty rate (income-based) included 19 percent of Americans. Rising political forces demanded change. Under a new White House Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), the concept of the federally-funded, local Community Action Program (CAP)—delivered by a local Community Action Agency (CAA), in a nationwide Community Action Network—would become the primary vehicle for a new ...
New York City Industrial Development Agency (NYCIDA) is a public benefit corporation under New York State law that provides companies with access to tax-exempt bond financing or tax benefits to strengthen and diversify the City’s tax and employment base, helps businesses locate and expand their operations within New York City, and encourages ...
Shortly thereafter, most of the federal grant that was to have gone to New York City was instead awarded to Chicago for bus-only lanes and more buses, [101] as well as to Los Angeles for high-occupancy toll lanes. [102] Coincidentally, by July 2008, high gasoline prices caused a five percent drop in vehicle trips into lower Manhattan.