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Save Affordable Housing - Repeal Vacancy Decontrol
2 hours ago ago from Working Families
Looking for our Dispatches from Rental Hell Video Contest? One more click to www.rentalhell.org . The affordable housing crisis in New York City is pushing thousands of working families out of a city they love but can no longer afford. (Do something about it - sign our petition on the right) Why is it happening? New York City has lost hundreds of thousands of units of affordable housing units through a rent law loophole called ...
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17 hours ago ago from Morrison World News
A South Korean firm has agreed to build 200,000 homes in Ghana over the next six years at a cost of $10 Billion, Seoul officials say. Construction firm STX will set up a joint venture to share the cost of the project with Ghana's government. Seoul officials say 90,000 of the homes will be owned by the Accra government and the rest will be offered for sale. South Korea says it intends to seek more opportunities to help build ...
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15 hours ago ago from The Ink
Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice. Martin Luther King. Or something like that. In any case, remember how the University started fining students who painted their walls even though in the past Housing had allowed students to avoid a penalty by painting rooms back at the end of the year? Students protested, claiming that Housing ought to have notified them of the change in ...
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3 hours ago ago from FREE WHITEWATER
There's a view almost a wish that in a small town, life will prove less regulated, and the only regulations the community issues are the most important, truly concerning health and safety. Sometimes, after paying for another permit, or sitting in a traffic jam caused by another urban plan gone awry, someone in Los Angeles must think: there must be someplace simpler than this. There is, of course, just not as simple and reasonable as ...
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10 hours ago ago from Stuart King for Putney: latest news
As the Evening Standard reported last week, councils like Wandsworth now have the power to take factors other than just pure housing need into account when allocating what's left of our local council house stock. Need should always be one of the most important considerations in allocating housing, but the fact that it has been the sole concern has sent our council estates into a spiral of decline; increasing deprivation and entrenching ...
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Nation Digest: College dropouts cite need to work as main reason for leaving school
15 hours ago ago from Washington Post - World
EDUCATION Dropouts say need to work drove decision The primary reason young adults drop out of college is an inability to juggle school and work, according to a report released Wednesday. Jean Johnson of Public Agenda, a nonpartisan public policy research firm that surveyed more than 600 people ages 22 to 30 for the report , said the research reflects a very, very different reality from the common image most people have of college as a ...
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