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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: Interior Policy, Local Elections, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Elections
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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: Interior Policy, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Budgets and Budgeting, Government
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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: Interior Policy, Politics, Baltimore Housing, Housing and Urban Planning
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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: Interior Policy, Demographics, Floods, Science, The Wall Street Journal
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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: Interior Policy, Chicago Housing Authority, Annapolis, Condos and Houses, Politics
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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: Racism, Washington, DC, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Rental Service
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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: Interior Policy, Chicago Housing Authority, Metra, Politics, Social Issues
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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: Interior Policy, Chicago Housing Authority, Realty, Politics, 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: Interior Policy, Economy, Business and Finance, Local Elections, Politics, Government
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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: Interior Policy, Poverty, Rental Service, Crime, Law and Justice, Chicago Housing Authority
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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: Interior Policy, Local Elections, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Elections
May 21, 2013
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May 17, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 5, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Apr 23, 2013
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Apr 19, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
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