Voters approved a $50 million property tax levy for low-income apartments, primarily to house homeless families.
In 2003 the bankrupt landlord auctioned off 1,600 low-income apartments.
They also said the city was in essence paying $125,000 for each new low-income apartment.
The hospital was converted to a community center and low-income apartments in 1991.
In France banlieues are more frequently areas of low-income apartments and social housing.
There are 96 low-income apartments for the poor and elderly, but the waiting list is eight to 10 years.
In New York City alone it has been used to create more than 12,000 low-income apartments.
A compromise cut its size in half and turned it into low-income cooperative apartments.
The low-income apartment can be in a new or gut-rehabilitated building.
The increase would add 480 low-income apartments this year, she said.