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Ind. housing, meals take hit under federal budget cuts
VINCENNES, Ind. (AP) — Agencies across Indiana are dropping flood insurance, scaling back on free meals for the elderly and reducing the number of Section 8 housing vouchers they provide as funding shrinks because of automatic federal budget cuts....Tags: Public Finance, Chicago Housing Authority, Section 8 (housing), Budget Control Act of 2011, Politics
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Assisted living plan causes stir at River View 500
South Bend Tribune Staff WriterMISHAWAKA -- What the senior and disabled tenants like here in the River View 500 building, 113 units that rise along Lincoln Way, is their sense of freedom. They can soak up views of the St. Joseph River and nearby parks or venture a block or two west...Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Health, Medical Specialization
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LETTER: Thanks For Supporting Housing Funds
We at the Publicly Assisted Housing Resident Network and the Connecticut Housing Coalition thank state Sen. Toni Harp and Rep. Toni Walker for their work in restoring payment in lieu of taxes and tax abatement grant funding for public housing to the...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Finance, Executive Branch, Politics, National Government
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Why is there a double standard?
Hang in there Councilman Sinanyan! Why should your comments made on the Internet years ago matter to the public when a conflict of interest by sitting council members went unchallenged at the voting booth in 2013? In 2009, council members Friedman,...Tags: Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Local Elections, Science and Technology, Interior Policy
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Housing security unit disbanded, employees laid off
Baltimore's housing office has disbanded its security unit, laying off seven sworn police officers, the agency said Thursday. The duties of the Lease Enforcement Unit — which investigates criminal activity in public housing to determine if a...Tags: Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Baltimore Housing, Interior Policy
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Section 8 housing is a nightmare for landlords
In a recent letter to the editor, Johns Hopkins professor Stefanie DeLuca recently suggested that many landlords refuse to rent to people with Section 8 housing vouchers because they are unfairly prejudiced against those prospective tenants ("Mossburg...Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Section 8 (housing)
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Social Issues, Ku Klux Klan, Brookings Institution, Politics, C. Ray Nagin
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Mossburg wrong on housing vouchers
As the legislative chair of the Maryland Association of Housing and Redevelopment Agencies, which represents the agencies that actually administer the Section 8 rental assistance program, it was disturbing to read the distortions in Marta Mossburg's...Tags: Social Issues, Annapolis, Chicago Housing Authority, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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State shouldn't let landlords discriminate
As we recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, it is significant to note that the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan regions are among the most segregated in America. Last month, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil...Tags: Annapolis, Separation of Church and State, Minority Groups, Condos and Houses, Civil Rights
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Housing growth slowing around CTA, Metra rail stations, researchers say
Despite the high-selling prices of residences located near public transit, the creation of new housing has lagged in sections of the Chicago area near CTA and Metra rail stations, compared with more robust development in transit zones in New York,...
Tags: Metra, Social Issues, Chicago Housing Authority, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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Improvements planned at Central High Apartments
South Bend TribuneSOUTH BEND – The Denver-based real estate group that purchased Central High Apartments downtown plans to make improvements but is also raising rental rates. Forum Real Estate Group took over the 106-unit property, the former South Bend Central High...Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Section 8 (housing), Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Rental Service
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Glendale is no different from Los Angeles
In 2001, Former Mayor Frank Quintero approved changing the benefit factor that would allow safety personnel to retire after 30 years of service at age 50 with 90% of their last year of spiked income, rather than maintaining their existing generous 75%...Tags: Finance, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Economy, Business and Finance, Local Elections
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