Cuomo's plan for financing affordable housing worries New York City officials
New York
NEW York State Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget this year calls for more state control over the financing of affordable housing - a move that New York City officials and affordable housing representatives say would slow and undermine efforts to build and maintain such units for low-income New Yorkers.
Mr Cuomo is proposing to give the Public Authorities Control Board - whose three voting members are the governor and the leaders of the state Senate and Assembly, or their designees - the power to approve or veto individual housing projects that use tax-exempt bonds that the state gets from the federal government and then allocates to the city and other municipalities.
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