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Rezoning proposals do not support Plan Howard 2030's quality of life [Letter]
The overview of the Plan Howard 2030 General Plan states: "The purpose is to articulate policies and actions to move us to further sustainability while enhancing the quality of life." The question is: What is Howard County's true vision? I ask because as... -
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: Realty, Public Housing, Housing and Urban Planning, Politics, Section 8 (housing)
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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, Public Housing, Politics, 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: Public Housing, Politics, Loyola University Chicago, Culture, Sociology
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Related Midwest president wants to dot skyline with indelible structures
Standing in a hallway of an unfinished apartment high-rise on Lake Shore Drive, sporting a dark suit and hard hat, Curt Bailey bent his head and stared. At the carpet. Then he and a group of his subordinates went to a different floor and stared down...
Tags: Public Housing, Corporate Officers, Politics, Culture, Duke Realty Corporation
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Former Markham Dep. Chief charged with sexual abuse
A former deputy police chief in south suburban Markham was arrested and is expected in U.S. District Court this afternoon after being charged with sexually abusing a victim and violating civil rights, officials said. Tony D. DeBois was arrested at his...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Housing and Urban Planning, Crimes, Politics, Prosecution
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Reserves will help HRHA deal with sequestration cuts
Reserves built up by the Hampton Redevelopment and Housing Authority will likely stave off any real impacts from sequestration to residents in need of housing vouchers for at least a few months. Director Ronald Jackson believes any issues associated...Tags: Housing and Urban Planning, Public Housing, Politics, 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: FEMA, Public Finance, Public Housing, Housing and Urban Planning, 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: National Institutes of Health, Food and Drug Administration, White House, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Career and Workplace
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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: Crime, Law and Justice, Richard Nixon, Housing and Urban Planning, Public Housing, New York University
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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: Public Housing, Discrimination, Jamin B. Raskin, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Christopher B. Shank
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Some Arlington Heights residents continue to fight affordable housing
For some Scarsdale neighborhood residents, low-income housing again sat at the heart of controversy over an Arlington Heights housing study. Community members spoke out against the final report of the "Homes for a Changing Region" project. Slamming...Tags: Public Housing, Arlington Heights, Section 8 (housing), Rentals, Personal Income
Apr 16, 2013
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Apr 30, 2013
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Mar 17, 2013
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Mar 17, 2013
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Mar 11, 2013
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Mar 7, 2013
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Feb 26, 2013
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Mar 31, 2013
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Mar 30, 2013
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Mar 29, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
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Feb 22, 2013
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