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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: Housing and Urban Planning, Economy, Business and Finance, Local Elections, Public Officials, Interior Policy
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Newport News housing authority to undergo sequestration furloughs
NEWPORT NEWS — Starting in May, the Newport News Redevelopment and Housing Authority will be closed one day per month with its employees furloughed due to federal sequestration cutbacks. Karen Wilds, the authority's executive director, said the...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago Housing Authority, Hampton (Hampton, Virginia), Career and Workplace
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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: Housing and Urban Planning, Local Elections, Interior Policy, Politics, Elections
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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: Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Housing and Urban Planning, FBI, Organized Crime, Interior Policy
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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: Social Security, Google Inc., Housing and Urban Planning, Section 8 (housing), Interior Policy
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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: Housing and Urban Planning, Budget Control Act of 2011, FEMA, Chicago Housing Authority, U.S. Congress
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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 Debt, Housing and Urban Planning, Chuck Hagel, U.S. Congress, Chicago Housing Authority
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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: Housing and Urban Planning, Chicago Housing Authority, Interior Policy, New York University, Personal Income
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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: Social Issues, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Christopher B. Shank, Poverty, Discrimination
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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: Rental Service, Chicago Housing Authority, Section 8 (housing), U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Rentals
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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: Social Issues, Housing and Urban Planning, Architecture, Chicago Housing Authority, Interior Policy
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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: Social Issues, Science and Technology, Housing and Urban Planning, Chicago Housing Authority, Loyola University Chicago
Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
Apr 24, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
Apr 19, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 10, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
Mar 31, 2013
|Story| AP Broadcast
Mar 30, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Mar 29, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 25, 2013
|Story| Hartford Courant
Mar 17, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
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