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Forcing landlords to accept vouchers won't help the poor
Human nature frequently disproves theories. Conventional wisdom, for example, says that open office space plans with workers grouped like cattle encourage creativity and collaboration. But study after study shows that people are more inventive, productive...Tags: Social Issues, Chicago Housing Authority, Medicaid, Poverty, Rental Service
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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: Section 8 (housing), Chicago Housing Authority, Rental Service, Housing and Urban Planning, Rentals
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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: Government, Elections, Local Elections, Public Officials, Housing and Urban Planning
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Why Sinanyan and not Drayman?
On April 5, Roberta Medford wrote candidate Zareh J. Sinanyan’s first act on the City Council should be “either an unequivocal and verifiable denial that the controversial online postings are his, or a sincere and contrite apology for them.&...Tags: Elections, Local Elections, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy, Politics
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In Ramona Gardens, an easing of long-simmering tensions
They were eating dinner in their Ramona Gardens living room when the rock crashed through the window like a meteorite. Jeff Littrel and his little boy hadn't been in their home more than a few days. Peering through the torn screen and shattered glass,...
Tags: Hate Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, Organized Crime, FBI, Gang Activity
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Glendale plans to counter Section 8 housing cuts
Glendale housing officials plan to tap reserves in order to save an estimated 112 households from losing affordable housing vouchers as a result of the across-the-board federal spending cuts known as sequestration. City officials expect to lose at least...Tags: Section 8 (housing), Housing and Urban Planning, Google Inc., Interior Policy, Politics
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Agencies in Maryland dodge furloughs — for now
A month after across-the-board federal spending cuts began, there are signs that one of the most troubling potential consequences for Maryland — the furloughing of federal employees — might not be as widespread as initially feared. But the...
Tags: Government, Unemployment, Easton (Talbot, Maryland), U.S. Department of Defense, Benjamin L. Cardin
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Report challenges tie between housing vouchers, crime
Renters' use of housing choice vouchers, more commonly known as Section 8 vouchers, long has worried communities that the arrival of voucher-holding tenants in a neighborhood will lead to crime and, eventually, lower property values. That's not true,...
Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Crime, Law and Justice, New York University, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy
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Md. rental housing discrimination likely to die in committee
kaustuv.basu@herald-mail.comThe Maryland Senate voted by the narrowest of margins this week to send a bill that aimed to address rental housing discrimination back to committee, effectively ending its chances of passing this year. Sen. Christopher B. Shank, R-Washington, who...Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Social Issues, Christopher B. Shank, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Jamin B. Raskin
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Editorial: Sequester Hitting Poor Where They Live
If you were entertaining the notion that the so-called sequester is really a good idea, it isn't. It may end up putting hundreds of poor Connecticut families out on the street. That is just one of many adverse effects beginning to take shape as a result...
Tags: Section 8 (housing), Chicago Housing Authority, Rental Service, Rentals, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
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Housing project preserves quality in time of tear-down
Jonathan Fine was walking through the old housing project looking for the right words. Georgian art deco fusion? Georgian eclectic with art deco thrown in? Colonial Revival? Whatever the right words are, they're not ones typically associated with...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Social Issues, Chicago Housing Authority, Housing and Urban Planning, Architecture
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Study explores why some families return to poor neighborhoods
When it was introduced in 1994, the federal housing experiment Moving to Opportunity was, to some, a means to rectify poverty. To others, it was a way for cities to dump their poorest residents on the suburbs. Many deemed it a failure, and officials...
Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Social Issues, Loyola University Chicago, Science and Technology, Culture
Apr 23, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
Apr 30, 2013
|Story| South Bend Tribune
Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
Mar 30, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 29, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 28, 2013
|Story| Herald Mail
Mar 25, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Mar 17, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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