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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: Poverty, Rental Service, Politics, Personal Income, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Career and Workplace, Politics, Layoffs and Downsizing, Finance, Employees
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Emanuel: 'economic realities' in new CHA plans
Tribune reporterMayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Housing Authority on Saturday formally announced an updated version of the city’s 13-year-old effort to remake public housing in Chicago. Dubbed the “Plan Forward,” the new strategy seeks to build on...Tags: Near North Side, Housing and Urban Planning, Politics, Rahm Emanuel, Personal Income
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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, Politics, Local Elections, Interior Policy, 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: Housing and Urban Planning, Organized Crime, Politics, Basketball, Crime, Law and Justice
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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: Housing and Urban Planning, Politics, Social Security, Interior Policy, Section 8 (housing)
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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: Career and Workplace, Politics, Anirban Basu, Social Security, Layoffs and Downsizing
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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: New York University, Housing and Urban Planning, Richard Nixon, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice
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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, Rentals, Section 8 (housing), 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: Housing and Urban Planning, Jens Jensen, Politics, Social Issues, Arts and Culture
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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: Poverty, Politics, Arts and Culture, Sociology, Interior Policy
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Sequestration would reach far into the Virginia Peninsula community - and affect health services
Like a victim tied to buzz saw table in an old movie melodrama, federal, state and local agencies and departments, and a host of businesses and nonprofit organizations are watching with alarm as budget blades churn toward them. On Friday automatic...
Tags: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Shipbuilding, Career and Workplace, Politics, York (York, Pennsylvania)
Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 24, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
Apr 20, 2013
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Apr 19, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
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Apr 10, 2013
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Mar 30, 2013
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Mar 29, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 25, 2013
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Mar 17, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Mar 17, 2013
|Story| Baltimore Sun
Feb 24, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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