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With last-minute reprieve, school gets chance to mend divided neighborhood
Manierre Elementary School lives squeezed between worlds. Black and white. Rich and poor. Chicago's past and its ambition. Walter Burnett, the neighborhood's alderman, lives squeezed between those worlds as well, and on Thursday, the day after...
Tags: Marshall Field, Housing and Urban Planning, Near North Side, Chicago Mayor, Rahm Emanuel
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Editorials: History underground, Section 8 limits
This hallowed ground The Harbor Square apartments are history. The 368-unit complex, much of which was dedicated to Section 8 subsidized housing, was razed last year by the city of Hampton to make room for a new courthouse, as well as some street...Tags: Section 8 (housing), Chicago Housing Authority, Barack Obama, Lifestyle and Leisure, Lotteries
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AHFC Seeks Comments on Smoke-Free Public Housing Units
Channel 2 NewsThe Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is seeking comments on a plan to ban smoking in more than 600 of its public housing units. Comments are being taken through June 15. The smoke-free policy, if enacted by AHFC, would take effect Aug. 1. It would...Tags: Social Issues, Housing and Urban Planning, Politics, Interior Policy
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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: Elections, Local Elections, Standards, Science and Technology, Housing and Urban Planning
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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: Government, Regional Authority, Toni N Harp, Housing and Urban Planning, Economy, Business and Finance
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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: Baltimore Housing, Housing and Urban Planning, Politics, 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: Section 8 (housing), Chicago Housing Authority
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Local housing authorities approve of end to lifetime public housing benefit
Section 8 vouchers and public housing units may no longer be a lifetime benefit, according to a proposal by President Barack Obama, and local housing authority directors say they support the idea. As it stands now, tenants in good standing can't be...Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), The Wall Street Journal, Social Issues, Chicago Housing Authority, Barack Obama
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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: Hurricanes, Local Government, Business Institutions, Social Issues, Houston Chronicle
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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: Chicago Housing Authority, Social Issues, Metra, Housing and Urban Planning, Chicago Transit Authority
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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: Rentals, Condos and Houses, Chicago Housing Authority, Social Issues, Annapolis
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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: Minority Groups, Rentals, Section 8 (housing), Chicago Housing Authority, Condos and Houses
May 24, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 23, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
May 23, 2013
|Story| KTUU
May 21, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
May 21, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
May 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 12, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 11, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
May 8, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 6, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
May 6, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
May 5, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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