Public Housing

Housing

Urban Renewal

Pest Control

Housing, Animal

Boston

Housing for the Elderly

Georgia

Air Filters

Poverty

District of Columbia

Urban Health

Poverty Areas

Health Status Disparities

African Americans

New York City

Urban Population

Residence Characteristics

Homelessness6

• Homelessness NSW acting CEO Amy Hains said much of the state's social housing stock needed retrofitting to make it liveable. (theage.com.au)
• Minister for Housing and Homelessness Rose Jackson said the Waverly property stories were "deeply disappointing" and represented "unacceptable living conditions", and has requested the matter be investigated by the department. (theage.com.au)
• We can absolutely do more to lift living standards for all tenants and as the minister for housing and homelessness, this will always be a priority for me," she said. (theage.com.au)
• These higher income limits, along with the overall need for more affordable housing units, pushes many struggling households into overcrowding, homelessness, and public housing waitlists. (dissentmagazine.org)
• NSW state governments are running down public housing as the rates of homelessness and housing stress (where households pay more than 30% of their income on rent or mortgage) rise at unprecedented levels. (greenleft.org.au)
• Stagnant wages and the rising cost of housing, electricity, transport, health and education have all contributed to homelessness and housing stress. (greenleft.org.au)

Tenants14

• Sharon Jones, president of the tenants council at Bel-Park Tower, said the plan is "their way of bullying us out of housing. (baltimoresun.com)
• It's really difficult for public housing tenants to get mould issues rectified simply by raising it with their landlord [the LHC]," she said. (theage.com.au)
• Public housing tenants pay 25-30 per cent of their income in rent. (theage.com.au)
• Public housing tenants typically pay around 30 percent of their income, whatever it is, in rent. (marketplace.org)
• The New York City Housing Authority has announced plans to demolish 2,055 aging units at the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses, replacing them with brand-new buildings to house all existing tenants plus another 3,500 apartments to be built on the same campuses, most of which will be rented at market rates. (nymag.com)
• We literally every winter lose heat and hot water, for weeks at a time, in some of the high-rise buildings," Miguel Acevedo, president of the Fulton Houses Tenants Association, told me . (nymag.com)
• His is a common story among public housing tenants in NSW. (greenleft.org.au)
• In 2014, it evicted 590 public housing tenants in Millers Point and sold off 293 properties, including the iconic Sirius building. (greenleft.org.au)
• Many of the roughly 1,000 tenants in Schenectady public housing face significant challenges with poverty and mobility, Homenick said. (dailygazette.com)
• I've been complaining to the Hawaii Public Housing Authority about issues brought before me by tenants for years. (honolulumagazine.com)
• Events shows include the work of the tenants council, street life, the role of police, job training programs, drug education, teenage mothers, dysfunctional families, elderly residents, nursery school and after school teenage programs and the activities of the city, state and federal governments in maintaining and changing public housing. (zipporah.com)
• Neighborhood support can improve aging in place for older adults, but research on the role of public housing staff in supporting older tenants is lacking. (lu.se)
• The staff identified CI management dilemmas in meeting older tenants' support needs while following the housing company's. (lu.se)
• The staff identified CI management dilemmas in meeting older tenants' support needs while following the housing company's regulations, maintaining professional responsibilities, respecting individual work attitudes and preferences, and experienced a lack of competencies in some situations. (lu.se)

Authority28

• Public housing is a form of housing tenure in which the property is usually owned by a government authority, either central or local. (wikipedia.org)
• In the United States, public housing developments are classified either as housing projects that are owned by a city's Housing authority or federally subsidized public housing operated through HUD. (wikipedia.org)
• Protesters fear the Housing Authority of Baltimore City's plan would lead to lost jobs, displaced residents and less available public housing. (baltimoresun.com)
• Housing Commissioner Paul T. Graziano said that the plan won't permanently displace any residents and that Housing Authority officials have been talking to residents about it since October 2013. (baltimoresun.com)
• Jones said the residents want the Housing Authority to get rid of bedbugs and address flooding and faulty sewer systems, but she fears that the way the city wants to do it would put the residents on the street. (baltimoresun.com)
• The Housing Authority needs $800 million worth of capital to renovate the properties, and the privatization plan is expected to improve more than 4,000 units in two years, Graziano said. (baltimoresun.com)
• Michael Pokorny, a project manager for the Rental Assistance Demonstration program, said the new management companies for each site plan to interview current Housing Authority employees. (baltimoresun.com)
• Pokorny said the Housing Authority also plans to consider those employees for other jobs at the agency. (baltimoresun.com)
• In a notice obtained by the Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) reminded its 63,000 households that residents can be terminated if any member of the household, or even a guest, is found to be using or possessing marijuana for recreational or medical purposes. (abc15.com)
• Bloomberg was responding to questions about Federal Judge Shira Schendlin's ruling on the stop-and-frisk program when the topic shifted to security and the New York City Housing Authority. (cbsnews.com)
• New York City has the largest public housing authority in the United States. (marketplace.org)
• The CARES Act provides HUD with broad authority to waive statutes and regulations related to its programs, except fair housing, nondiscrimination, labor standards, and environmental requirements. (clackamas.us)
• The Housing Authority of Clackamas County (HACC) has adopted many of the waivers offered by HUD for the Section 8 and Public Housing programs. (clackamas.us)
• The lives of New York City's 408,000 public housing residents will be getting a bit greener over the coming years if Mayor Bloomberg and a commissioner of the New York City Housing Authority have their way. (citylimits.org)
• It would be only the third time NYCHA units have been torn down and the first time new, market-rate apartments have been built on Housing Authority property. (nymag.com)
• In 2018, the Citizens Budget Commission estimated that replacement will be cheaper than repair in 90 percent of Housing Authority apartments by 2027. (nymag.com)
• We need more of that impatient, in-your-face Eric Adams, who has yet to name a permanent CEO of the Housing Authority and whose chief housing officer, Jessica Katz, recently announced her resignation . (nymag.com)
• We're devastated by the cuts," said Rich Homenick, chairman of the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority. (dailygazette.com)
• Cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development are of particular concern to Homenick, who said the Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority, and agencies state-wide, may struggle to maintain its properties if the cuts go into effect. (dailygazette.com)
• The Schenectady Municipal Housing Authority received $1.4 million from HUD in 2017, but under the new proposal would only get about $458,000 for its capital fund. (dailygazette.com)
• The Schenectady housing authority already has a backlog of $8 million due to chronic underfunding, he said. (dailygazette.com)
• If the housing authority can't proactively replace outdated gas mains, he said, it could break, leading to costly repairs and leaving residents without heat. (dailygazette.com)
• These people, some of whom have been residents for decades, like Wong, are victims of the ineptitude of the Hawaii Public Housing Authority (HPHA) and the state Department of Human Services (DHS), the agencies responsible for providing safe and adequate homes for low-income families who live in public-housing complexes such as Mayor Wright. (honolulumagazine.com)
• Three years ago, attorneys with the legal-aid nonprofit Lawyers for Equal Justice (LEJ) filed a class-action lawsuit against the housing authority and Realty Laua LLC for the unsafe and uninhabitable conditions at Kuhio Park Terrace (KPT). (honolulumagazine.com)
• We're going to be on the housing authority for as long as there are problems it is looking the other way for," he says. (honolulumagazine.com)
• The PHA must demonstrate that it has the legal authority to develop, own, modernize and operate a public housing development in accordance with the 1937 Act. (federalgrantswire.com)
• Joseph, 41, lives in Roseland Estates, an aging Dallas Housing Authority complex that sits in the middle of one of the most concentrated urban areas in the region - not far from Uptown. (dallasnews.com)
• She takes a long view of the San Francisco Housing Authority (SFHA), from its founding in 1938 to current times. (shelterforce.org)

20232

• HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) issued Notice PIH 2023-20, inviting public housing agencies (PHAs) with 1,000 or fewer combined units of public housing and Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) to apply for the fifth cohort of the so-called Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Expansion. (nlihc.org)
• The cooperative agreement will provide $66.5 million (projected) to 30 state health departments over the next 5 years, beginning April 1, 2023, and is part of the White House Justice40 Initiative. (cdc.gov)

20163

• The 2016 census found that in NSW about 40,000 people were homeless in while 50% of households experienced housing stress. (greenleft.org.au)
• On the other hand, between 2011-2016, 63% of the net growth in the number of NSW households were households in rental housing, with 42% of those including children. (greenleft.org.au)
• Fiscal Year 2016 The Department will make available $1.54 billion to approximately 3,100 grantees for modernization, improvement, and new development to Public Housing projects. (federalgrantswire.com)

Developments9

• Social housing had existed sporadically prior to modern developments. (wikipedia.org)
• The CHA is preparing to tear down all of the city's traditional high-rise housing projects and replace them with "mixed-income" developments. (socialistworker.org)
• The CHA admits that 98.4 percent of current public housing families earn less than $20,000 per year--meaning that an overwhelming majority of families won't be able to get into the new developments. (socialistworker.org)
• Take Chicago's "Plan for Transformation"-a scheme to demolish the city's public housing projects and rebuild them as "mixed-income" developments. (dissentmagazine.org)
• Around 400,000 residents live in public housing developments. (marketplace.org)
• A pilot program was recently launched by NYCHA to replace 12,000 standard lightbulbs with the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) in two Brooklyn housing developments. (citylimits.org)
• The Capital fund also permits PHAs to use Capital Funds for financing activities, including payments of debt service and customary financing costs, in standard PHA developments and in mixed-finance developments which include Public Housing. (federalgrantswire.com)
• The funds may be used for the development, financing and modernization of public housing developments and for management improvements. (federalgrantswire.com)
• The book investigates three important SFHA developments: Valencia Gardens, Ping Yuen, and North Beach Public Housing. (shelterforce.org)

City's public1

• Today, there's little that's "decent, safe and sanitary" about the city's public housing high-rises. (socialistworker.org)

Crisis9

• The UK has been in a housing crisis for many years and it has missed its house building targets by over 1.3 million houses since 2004. (easychair.org)
• NICOLE COLSON reports on the hidden housing crisis facing tens of thousands of people in Chicago. (socialistworker.org)
• But instead of revitalizing public housing in Chicago, the takeover set the stage for the current crisis. (socialistworker.org)
• When people on the left think about solutions to the housing crisis, few of us think about public housing. (dissentmagazine.org)
• Anyhow: Sanders says "this bill shows that we can address our climate and affordable housing crisis by making public housing a model of efficiency, sustainability and resiliency," The Hill reported. (gopusa.com)
• I'm looking at this as potentially a public health crisis. (dailygazette.com)
• Brian Hanlon is the president and CEO of California YIMBY , a statewide organization that advocates for solutions to the housing crisis. (kpbs.org)
• A: Sure, so California YIMBY is a relatively new statewide housing advocacy organization that works to change state law in order to end the housing crisis. (kpbs.org)
• Around the country, surprise rental fees for things like trash removal, have garnered more attention amid the affordable housing crisis. (publicnewsservice.org)

Residents26

• Sixty city public housing residents and union workers staged a protest Wednesday against a plan to sell the housing to private developers. (baltimoresun.com)
• Mould can pose serious health issues to residents, and the state has a duty of care to provide social housing that is safe to inhabit," she said. (theage.com.au)
• In the 1970s, Liverpool produced one of Britain's largest, most democratic and socially innovative housing co-op movements, including the country's first new-build co-op to be designed, developed and owned by its member-residents. (openlibrary.org)
• In many ways, the Plan for Transformation is a war--a war on Chicago's poor and overwhelmingly Black public housing residents. (socialistworker.org)
• Under the law, if officials judge that it's more expensive to rehab a public housing building than to tear it down and give residents Section 8 housing vouchers to subsidize the cost of rent paid to private landlords, they're required to demolish the building. (socialistworker.org)
• That cleared the way for the Plan for Transformation--a barely disguised land grab that allows property developers to get their hands on prime real estate, while leaving public housing residents wondering where they will live. (socialistworker.org)
• The notion of fingerprinting 620,000 people in public housing -- even with the best of intentions of making buildings safer -- caught a lot of New York City residents off guard. (cbsnews.com)
• Alfred Woods, also a smoker, said he worries what will happen to public housing residents who can't quit. (marketplace.org)
• For its part, HUD said residents' concerns are, in part, exactly why it has opened the proposed ban up to a period of public comment. (marketplace.org)
• Then came Ocasio-Cortez, chucking in her two cents: "The Green New Deal for Public Housing Act will train and mobilize the workforce to decarbonize the public housing stock and improve the quality of life for all residents. (gopusa.com)
• People like the elderly residents of Brooklyn's Brevoort Houses, where 2,000 residents were forced to go without water for weeks during the summer of 2018 after a NYCHA pumping system failed. (nymag.com)
• Private and public rent should be capped at 30% of residents' income, and 20% of all new apartment blocks should be built for public housing. (greenleft.org.au)
• Low-income public housing residents. (federalgrantswire.com)
• According to residents of subsidized housing and experts, the prime rule of real estate - location, location, location - couldn't be more critical to the lives of people in poverty, many of whom lack the means to buy and maintain a car. (dallasnews.com)
• Nanaimo residents are being asked to help shape future housing with its population expected to keep on climbing. (timescolonist.com)
• There are occasional activities and support from senior housing management to encourage the building of friendships, bonds and social support among senior housing residents. (scienceblog.com)
• Most senior housing communities also have a common space or multipurpose room available for use, which can also help facilitate building bonds between residents. (scienceblog.com)
• Senior housing communities are frequently located close to public transportation, which provides access to transportation for residents without automobiles. (scienceblog.com)
• In the 1990s, a group I co-founded, the Eviction Defense Network, was asked by public housing residents to organize alongside them during the HOPE VI process. (shelterforce.org)
• The residents we worked with, mostly at North Beach Public Housing in San Francisco, put forward rather modest demands. (shelterforce.org)
• During this time, there was also a concerted effort in both mainstream media and academia to flatten the lives of public housing residents into a neat bundle of pathology and problems. (shelterforce.org)
• Amy L. Howard's More Than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing is a powerful antidote to the one-dimensional portrayal of public housing residents and the context of their lives. (shelterforce.org)
• She describes public housing residents practicing "affective activism"-focusing on intentional relationships to strengthen each other in the face of shared challenges. (shelterforce.org)
• Atlanta, GA - The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency, invites residents living near Coldwater Creek to attend an open house. (cdc.gov)
• There residents will learn about the ATSDR Coldwater Creek Public Health Assessment (PHA) being conducted and about the PHA process. (cdc.gov)
• Residents will have the opportunity to meet scientists, ask questions, and discuss their environmental public health concerns. (cdc.gov)

20172

• The 2017 budget provides $1.9 billion for the public housing capital fund, which is dispersed among municipal housing agencies to be used for physical infrastructure projects. (dailygazette.com)
• The public housing operating fund, which goes toward administration, insurance, equipment and other costs of doing business, would be cut by 11 percent federally, from $4.4 billion in 2017 to $3.9 billion in 2018. (dailygazette.com)

Centers2

• It would have required cities to upzone land for housing around public transit centers. (kpbs.org)
• The conclusions, findings, and opinions expressed by authors contributing to this journal do not necessarily reflect the official position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Public Health Service, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or the authors' affiliated institutions. (cdc.gov)

100,0002

• The NSW government owns and manages nearly 100,000 public housing units. (theage.com.au)
• A package of proposals would result in a change in the mix and diversity of housing in Nanaimo, now estimated to have about 100,000 citizens. (timescolonist.com)

Choice Vouchers1

• In line with this shift toward private ownership of subsidized housing, U.S. public housing authorities have become increasingly reliant on Housing Choice Vouchers, or Section 8. (dissentmagazine.org)

PHAs2

• federal public housing is owned by HUD and administered by local public housing agencies (PHAs). (nlihc.org)
• The Capital Fund provides funds annually to Public Housing Agencies (PHAs) for capital and management activities, including modernization and development of public housing. (federalgrantswire.com)

Households1

• South African apartheid featured high poverty rates in Black South Africans due to racial segregation and discrimination, so the post-apartheid government has sought to build social housing for poor black households, in urban areas with economic opportunity. (wikipedia.org)

19952

• The Reconstruction and Development and Breaking New Ground programs have provided over 3.5 million houses from 1995 to 2020, but they did not fully meet demand, and were built away from inner urban areas, exacerbating racial divides. (wikipedia.org)
• In 1995, Chicago's public housing system was judged to be so wretched that it was taken over by the federal government's Department of Housing and Urban Development. (socialistworker.org)

20211

• The housing shortage was estimated to be 3.7 million units in 2021. (wikipedia.org)

Endemic1

• The vast public housing programs undertaken in the postwar period, however, suffered from the racism and disinvestment that would become endemic to government housing, and to nearly every other public institution through the present day. (dissentmagazine.org)

Municipal2

• The origins of modern municipal housing lie in the dramatic urban population increase caused by the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century. (wikipedia.org)
• Reconstructing Public Housing unearths Liverpool's hidden history of radical alternatives to municipal housing development and builds a vision of how we might reconstruct public housing on more democratic and cooperative foundations. (openlibrary.org)

Shortage2

• Public housing in the United States first emerged in the 1930s as part of the New Deal, when there was an enormous shortage of housing following the Great Depression. (dissentmagazine.org)
• While the city's overall fee on the total construction cost is doubling, opponents say some types of businesses would be charged increases of more than 700 percent, while making only a minimal impact on San Diego's affordable housing shortage. (kpbs.org)

State's2

• Homenick and other city leaders are reaching out to the state's delegation in Congress, members of which have been receptive to the potential budget impact on housing, he said. (dailygazette.com)
• Wong and her family live in Mayor Wright Homes, the state's second largest public-housing complex. (honolulumagazine.com)

Schenectady1

• Some local leaders are bracing for the worst as they review President Donald Trump's proposed federal budget, which could jeopardize the long-term sustainability of some Schenectady housing projects. (dailygazette.com)

20181

• A 2018 Productivity Commission Report on Government Services found that "one in four public housing properties [in NSW] were in an unacceptable condition, meaning they had fewer than four working facilities or more than two major structural problems. (greenleft.org.au)

Vouchers1

• I think a common one we still see, despite these protections, is a landlord who might post something on advertising for housing that said, 'no voucher holders,' like does not take vouchers 'cause that is illegal," Dobbs pointed out. (publicnewsservice.org)

Redevelopment1

• This HIA focused on redevelopment of public housing in San Francisco's Potrero Hill neighborhood. (pewtrusts.org)

Diego4

• A crew from the San Diego Urban Corps plants a Crape Myrtle in front of my house in El Cerrito. (kpbs.org)
• He has received recognition for his outstanding work in hosting and public affairs reporting from the Unity Awards, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, and the San Diego chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. (kpbs.org)
• Opponents of an affordable housing fee increase for big construction projects in San Diego collected enough voter signatures to qualify the issue for a ballot or to have the City Council reverse course, the City Clerk's Office announced today. (kpbs.org)
• Sanders, the chief executive of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce , recently said the affordable housing fee at 1.5 percent of the project cost would have an "extremely negative impact on jobs and our local economy and should be repealed. (kpbs.org)

Complex3

• The Roman historian Suetonius described how Augustus lived in a modest house on the Palatine before he assumed supreme power and built a sprawling imperial complex higher up the hill. (bbc.co.uk)
• Thirty-seven-year-old Equanda Willis lives in a public housing complex in Brooklyn, NY, and has been smoking for two decades. (marketplace.org)
• Detectives are looking for the shooter who pulled the trigger on a 56-year-old man and killed him outside a Brooklyn public housing complex on Monday evening. (amny.com)

People's2

• When the CHA was launched in 1937 following the passage of the U.S. Housing Act, its mission was to "improve people's lives by building subsidized housing for low-income families unable to obtain decent, safe, and sanitary dwelling units within their income-paying abilities. (socialistworker.org)
• ATSDR is in the initial phase of conducting a public health assessment to evaluate people's potential exposures to hazardous substances in and along Coldwater Creek. (cdc.gov)

Federally1

• NLIHC and the Public and Affordable Housing Research Corporation (PAHRC) released today a new report, Natural Hazards and Federally Assisted Housing. (nlihc.org)

Units10

• In Chicago, almost 18,000 public housing units failed the test--a full 58 percent of CHA apartments. (socialistworker.org)
• But even the CHA admits that there won't be nearly enough housing units to go around. (socialistworker.org)
• Only one-third of the new units will be reserved for public housing families (earning up to $19,500 per year for a family of four). (socialistworker.org)
• This program produced very few housing units, due both to the lack of qualified builders and to the inefficiency of channeling public funds through the limited-dividend corporations. (dissentmagazine.org)
• Many of the units in RAD housing or affordable housing build by community development corporations are paid for with Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), with higher income limits than traditional public housing. (dissentmagazine.org)
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a smoking ban in the one-point-two million units of public housing it oversees. (marketplace.org)
• And on this campus, we'll have over a thousand additional units of affordable housing," he said. (nymag.com)
• The goal is to create a diversity of housing - enough to meet the demand for more lower-cost homes, to see more family options added and to ensure enough units will be available for those with special physical needs. (timescolonist.com)
• It is also looking at ways to increase family-friendly housing options, add infill to existing neighbourhoods, such as through duplexes and triplexes, and create housing units for people with special physical needs. (timescolonist.com)
• The demonstration took place in 172 vacant housing units in several different cities. (cdc.gov)

Neighborhood2

• For Dallas, the placement of public housing is an increasingly difficult challenge, with legal fights and neighborhood opposition all but paralyzing public and private efforts to construct affordable homes. (dallasnews.com)
• Impact of public housing relocations: are changes in neighborhood conditions related to STIs among relocaters? (bvsalud.org)

People7

• This is an opportunity to enhance the quality of life for people who live in public housing," she said, adding that city officials were working "very aggressively" on the plan. (baltimoresun.com)
• The mayor wants to fingerprint more than 600,000 people who live in public housing. (cbsnews.com)
• There is a drive to destroy public housing and force people into the rental market - or onto the streets. (greenleft.org.au)
• The NSW government can spend billions of dollars on rebuilding football stadiums, but they say they cannot build 40,000 new public homes to house the homeless people in this state. (greenleft.org.au)
• Public Citizen advocates for ordinary people by taking on corporate interests and their cronies in government. (citizen.org)
• Eric Belsky, the managing director of the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies , says a few years ago, in order to get people to buy houses, the government had to entice them with a big homebuyer tax credit . (nhpr.org)
• Affirmatively fair housing is aimed at tasking, whether it's government or nongovernment entities who are taking funding to be more proactive in creating housing, that is allowing people to live where they want to live," Dobbs explained. (publicnewsservice.org)

Search1

• There is also a phone directory to help you search for housing and glossary to help you understand technical terms. (masslegalhelp.org)

40,0001

• Nearly 40,000 on an indefinite waiting list for housing. (socialistworker.org)

Authorities5

• As a result, under the Public Works Administration, led by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, the government decided to enter the housing business: rather than paying companies to build government-subsidized housing, the state would build and maintain housing through local housing authorities. (dissentmagazine.org)
• In its relatively short history, public housing has suffered from rampant corruption in some cities, and from the failure of many local housing authorities to maintain and repair housing projects. (dissentmagazine.org)
• Sunia Zaterman is the executive director of the Council of Large Public Housing Authorities, a non-profit that represents 70 of the largest housing authorities in the country. (marketplace.org)
• We do have a number of housing authorities that have experience in undertaking these kinds of policies and implementing them," Zaterman said. (marketplace.org)
• Because of the scale of NYCHA's residential portfolio, its green efforts have been and will continue to be monitored by other housing authorities across the country and other housing developers in the city. (citylimits.org)

Government-funded2

• Since the 1970s, privately funded affordable housing has largely supplanted government-funded public housing. (dissentmagazine.org)
• Do you need to understand the nuts and bolts of government-funded housing programs in Massachusetts? (masslegalhelp.org)

20201

• Virginia updated its Fair Housing Law in 2020 to ensure if a person uses money from a rental assistance program or subsidy, they cannot be discriminated against. (publicnewsservice.org)

Corporations3

• The federal government began by making loans to nonprofit corporations to build housing. (dissentmagazine.org)
• After it was revealed that Richard Nixon's re-election campaign had illegally accepted donations from big corporations, Congress created a public financing system that would encourage small donations and reduce the influence of special interests. (motherjones.com)
• The U.S. government should work for the public, not corporations or industry. (citizen.org)

ATSDR3

• ATSDR, a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, evaluates the potential for adverse human health effects due to exposure to hazardous substances in the environment. (cdc.gov)
• ATLANTA) - The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), a federal public health agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is pleased to announce a new notice of funding opportunity (NOFO) for its APPLETREE program. (cdc.gov)
• The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) invites the public to hear from the scientists who conducted public health activities to understand the impact of exposure to contaminated drinking water at U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. (cdc.gov)

Today's1

• These debates are of continued importance to today's affordable housing providers and the communities they operate in. (shelterforce.org)

Including housin1

• The assessment focused on a wide range of factors influencing health, including housing prices and access to public services, parks and transportation. (pewtrusts.org)

Advocates3

• Advocates are thus focused primarily on preserving the public housing stock that remains. (nlihc.org)
• Public Citizen advocates Medicare for All, stronger oversight of dangerous doctors and safe clinical trials. (citizen.org)
• An Indigenous project in South Dakota seeks to protect tribal data sovereignty, advocates in North Carolina are pushing back against attacks on public schools, and Arkansas wants the hungriest to have access to more fruits and veggies. (publicnewsservice.org)

Affordable10

• Although the common goal of public housing is to provide affordable housing, the details, terminology, definitions of poverty, and other criteria for allocation vary within different contexts. (wikipedia.org)
• Social housing is any rental housing that may be owned and managed by the state, by non-profit organizations, or by a combination of the two, usually with the aim of providing affordable housing. (wikipedia.org)
• Affordable housing goals can also be achieved through subsidies. (wikipedia.org)
• Subsidized housing is owned and operated by private owners who receive subsidies in exchange for providing affordable housing. (wikipedia.org)
• In 2002, the city received its first federal grant to begin ings for affordable housing. (cdc.gov)
• NYCHA is the second largest landlord in the country, behind the U.S. Army, and with housing stock ranging from 30 to 70 years old, many developers will be able to look to NYCHA for affordable ways to retrofit green technology and practices. (citylimits.org)
• But as the need for affordable housing in Dallas grows, the difficulty of placing it around the city is only magnified. (dallasnews.com)
• Supporters of the fee increase point to studies that show San Diego's housing market is among the least affordable, and more affordable housing would make the city more attractive to businesses. (kpbs.org)
• We have this tantalizing statistic out there about how affordable homeownership is," says Chris Herbert, a Harvard research director who worked on the housing report. (nhpr.org)
• Whether you're a migrant from Ohio, from El Salvador or if you're a native San Diegan, everyone should be able to achieve their full potential here in California, have access to good quality schools, access to good jobs and, crucially, be able to live in safe, secure, affordable housing. (kpbs.org)

Committee1

• Former House Speaker Tom Craddick , R-Midland, collapsed in the Capitol this morning while laying out a bill before the House Transportation Committee. (citizen.org)

NYCHA5

• Five percent of our population lives in NYCHA housing, 20 percent of the crime is in NYCHA housing - numbers like that. (cbsnews.com)
• And we have a whole group of police officers assigned to NYCHA housing," Bloomberg said. (cbsnews.com)
• I would submit that a very easy way to fix, that would be to actually make sure that NYCHA housing actually have functioning door locks and security systems. (cbsnews.com)
• NYCHA is a model for other housing agencies. (citylimits.org)
• Tyrone, a 28-year-old resident of Manhattan's Alfred E. Smith Houses who did not want to supply his last name, thinks NYCHA has more important things to spend money on than energy efficiency. (citylimits.org)

Live2

• But I'd like to imagine a future in which many of us live in, and thrive in, public housing. (dissentmagazine.org)
• In order to qualify to live in these senior housing communities, older adults must have a low income, and having a lower income is a risk factor for loneliness. (scienceblog.com)

Struggle1

• The survey results reveal that the UK public can struggle to accept a prefabricated house due to the lack of information regarding prefabricated housing. (easychair.org)

Agencies1

• A 2022 report from the National Fair Housing Association found private fair housing organizations across the U.S. processed 2.6 times the number of fair housing complaints processed by local, state and federal agencies. (publicnewsservice.org)

Increasingly difficult1

• At the moment, none of the properties are unsafe or pose a risk to public health, Homenick said, but given the proposed cuts, keeping up with aging infrastructure will become increasingly difficult. (dailygazette.com)

Officials2

• Like other provisions of the G.I. Bill, public housing location and construction were left in the hands of local officials all too eager to keep African Americans out of their communities. (dissentmagazine.org)
• Trump's budget proposal , which still must be approved by Congress before it is finalized, makes sweeping cuts to social programs, public education and public housing, which White House officials have argued will create savings at the federal level. (dailygazette.com)

Fudge1

• Earlier this year, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Marcia Fudge put forward a proposed rule to overcome patterns of segregation in housing. (publicnewsservice.org)

Projects3

• Public housing projects were tried out in some European countries and the United States in the 1930s, but only became widespread globally after the Second World War. (wikipedia.org)
• It took years of calculated neglect by politicians for Chicago housing projects to reach this point. (socialistworker.org)
• The effort is part of an initiative by the San Francisco Department of Public Health and the Mayor's Office of Housing to work collaboratively toward public health goals through public housing projects. (pewtrusts.org)

Plan for Transformation1

• But they're actually the projected results of the Chicago Housing Authority's (CHA) "Plan for Transformation. (socialistworker.org)

Development10

• The Department of Human Settlements, which facilitates national housing development, has sought to transition from a housing-focused development model to a holistic view, including services. (wikipedia.org)
• HUD (Department of Housing and Urban Development) programs like Hope VI and Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) exemplify this increasing reliance on the private market. (dissentmagazine.org)
• The Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a smoking ban. (marketplace.org)
• And while she'd like to quit, she doesn't think the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has the right to tell her what to do in her own home. (marketplace.org)
• The aim is to replace 2000 dwellings with a housing development that would host 7000 dwellings, only 30% of which would be dedicated to social housing. (greenleft.org.au)
• PUBLIC HOUSING documents daily life at the Ida B. Wells public housing development in Chicago. (zipporah.com)
• The city is looking at encouraging development of secondary suites, which could include coach houses, by adjusting its regulations. (timescolonist.com)
• Q: Pro-development or pro-housing interests are not necessarily new to politics. (kpbs.org)
• One of the things that you'll notice is that these highly restrictive rules around housing development actually benefits a lot of incumbent developers. (kpbs.org)
• In response to a request from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Officer for Policy Development and Research, an investigation was made into possible hazardous working conditions during the HUD Lead Based Pa Abatement Demonstration (SIC-1521). (cdc.gov)

Organization2

• programs offered at an independent public policy research organization-the RAND Corporation. (rand.org)
• The RAND Corporation is a research organization that develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous. (rand.org)

Transformation1

• Drawing on theories of capitalism and cooperativism, property and the commons, institutional change and urban transformation, Thompson reconsiders Engels' housing question, reflecting on how collective alternatives work in, against and beyond the state and capital, in often surprising and contradictory ways. (openlibrary.org)

Social11

• Social housing is generally rationed by a government through some form of means-testing or through administrative measures of housing needs. (wikipedia.org)
• One can regard social housing as a potential remedy for housing inequality. (wikipedia.org)
• Minha Casa Minha Vida ("My House, My Life"), the Brazilian federal government's social housing program, was launched in March 2009 with a budget of R$36 billion (US$18 billion) to build one million homes. (wikipedia.org)
• In this critical urban history, Matthew Thompson brings to light how and why this remarkable city became host to two pioneering social movements in collective housing and urban regeneration experimentation. (openlibrary.org)
• We found no significant differences in the health characteristics of the social networks of children living in these different types of public housing. (rand.org)
• Of those renting, 27% were private renters and 5% lived in social housing. (greenleft.org.au)
• The time for those on waiting lists for social housing in Sydney is a minimum of 5 years and, in most cases, more than 10 years. (greenleft.org.au)
• Proposals are open for public comment and an open house is set for today between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. at the Beban Park Social Centre, 2300 Beban Rd. in Nanaimo. (timescolonist.com)
• however, there is limited research examining the extent and correlates of loneliness among older adults who reside in senior housing communities," wrote Harry Chatters Taylor , doctoral student at the Brown School and lead author of " Loneliness in Senior Housing Communities ," published in the Journal of Gerontological Social Work. (scienceblog.com)
• The objective of this article is to reflect and debate on the interdisciplinary relationships involving several professionals, such as psychologists, social workers and sociologists, who are part of the social team responsible for the implementation of the National Housing Policy. (bvsalud.org)
• 3 Public Health Canada, The social determinants of health: An overview of the implications for policy and the role of the health sector. (who.int)

Neglect1

• In a process partially justified by these many challenges, public housing is currently either being killed by neglect or aggressively privatized. (dissentmagazine.org)

Advocacy1

• Laura Dobbs, deputy director for the Center of Housing Advocacy at the Virginia Poverty Law Center, said despite the protections, discrimination still occurs. (publicnewsservice.org)

Federal5

• The federal government is offering tax credits to developers who buy and renovate public housing. (baltimoresun.com)
• Its federal contribution toward the public housing operating fund would be slashed from $2.8 million to $2.5 million. (dailygazette.com)
• Public Citizen challenges Big Pharma, device manufacturers and federal regulators to make drugs and medical devices safe, effective and accessible to all. (citizen.org)
• Along with the federal Fair Housing Act , most states have their own fair housing laws preventing housing discrimination. (publicnewsservice.org)
• This year marks the 55th Anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act's passage. (publicnewsservice.org)

1970s1

• As I reported on Monday , the presidential public financing system, which also funds party conventions, emerged from the Watergate scandal in the 1970s. (motherjones.com)

World's2

• The world's first large-scale housing project was built in London to replace one of the capital's most notorious slums - the Old Nichol. (wikipedia.org)
• Four decades later, in some of the very same neighbourhoods, several campaigns for urban community land trusts are growing from the grassroots - including the first ever architectural or housing project to be nominated for and win, in 2015, the art world's coveted Turner Prize. (openlibrary.org)

Commons3

• Find out what's on today at the House of Commons and House of Lords. (parliament.uk)
• Review the rules that regulate the way MPs conduct House of Commons public business, including electing the Speaker and powers of committees. (parliament.uk)
• Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills last met representatives of the Campaign for Real Ale ( CAMRA ) on 25 February 2014 when he spoke at a CAMRA reception in the House of Commons . (theyworkforyou.com)

City4

• The plan, announced in March, involves the city selling 40 percent of its public housing to private developers to raise money for upgrades and maintenance. (baltimoresun.com)
• According to the City Clerk's Office , the issue will be addressed at a City Council meeting, where members will decide to rescind approval of the fee increase -- which passed on two 5-4, party-line votes -- or call for a public vote. (kpbs.org)
• The city calls the fee a "Workforce Housing Offset. (kpbs.org)
• The city is seeking input through a public survey, closing Sept. 29, on its website. (timescolonist.com)

Vast1

• Recent surveys show that despite the housing crash, the vast majority of Americans still aspire to own a home if they don't own one already. (nhpr.org)

Complaints2

• LHC has responded to nearly 300 public housing mould complaints in the past four months, and 1153 in the previous financial year. (theage.com.au)
• Dobbs added there was a rise in such discrimination throughout the pandemic, and it is happening across the U.S. Fair housing complaints are on the rise. (publicnewsservice.org)