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3 affordable housing projects that serve as social catalysts

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Some teachers in Northern California are living out of their cars, in hovels in the Santa Cruz Mountains, and with multiple roommates in one-bedroom apartments in Daly City, because they can’t afford to pay market-rate rent. Affordable housing is housing built for people who earn 80% or less of the area median income (AMI).

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Business Facilities’ 2019 Metro Rankings Report

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AUSTIN, DENVER, NEW YORK CITY HAVE TOP STARTUP ECOSYSTEMS. Austin, TX, Denver, CO and New York City topped our metro leaderboard for Startup Ecosystems. Millennials represented 22 percent of the entire population in the New Haven-Milford area in 2017, according to the study.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

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Office buildings are worth more” than residential as income generators, she explains. If there’s a market for it” is the operative term, however, because office districts in major cities are under stress as they’ve emptied out in the wake of the pandemic, and many building owners are defaulting on loans, according to The New York Times.

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How to succeed at construction marketing with internal business processes: Better, cheaper, faster

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A perspective of New York City from Google’s NYC headquarters. Details of these events must remain confidential under Non Disclosure Agreement rules, but I saw enough at the last meet-up to decide to allocate a meaningful portion of my retirement income portfolio to GOOGL shares.

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LOCATION FOCUS: United It Stands

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New York State’s 54,556 square mile geography is divided into 10 economic regions (according to Empire State Development)—Western New York, Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Central New York, North Country, Mohawk Valley, Mid-Hudson, Capital District, New York City and Long Island.

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New York Incentives and Workforce Development Guide

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Real Estate project costs include the cost of an existing building and renovations, purchase of land and construction of a new building and soft costs normally associated with a real estate transaction. a food market site with a customer base of 50% or more living in a low-income census tract. national average.

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Location Focus: New York – The Empire State Leverages Its Strengths

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Business will be able to locate in these special university economic zones and operate 100 percent tax-free for 10 years, with no income tax, business or corporate state and local taxes, no sales tax, no property tax, no franchise fees, and in many cases, no income tax for employees.