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Archive for ‘October, 2008’
7 Former public-housing residents honored
Uncategorized Oct 17, 2008
Budget cuts could hit hard
Uncategorized Oct 17, 2008
Social Security benefits going up by 5.8 percent
Uncategorized Oct 16, 2008
WASHINGTON – Social Security benefits for 50 million people will be go up 5.8 percent next year, the largest increase in more than a quarter century.
The increase, which will start in January, was announced Thursday by the Social Security Administration. It will mean an.. Tell Me More..
Rev. Al Sharpton scheduled to make an appearance in Houma
Uncategorized Oct 12, 2008
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Parma: Applicants sought for public housing program
Uncategorized Oct 12, 2008
Cleveland- Pre-applications for the Parma Public Housing Program will be accepted from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the UAW Local 1005 Hall, 5615 Chevrolet Blvd.
Applicants must meet all applicable federal criteria. A criminal background check, credit report and rental histo.. Tell Me More..
Despite vows of change, CHA risks repeating old failures
Uncategorized Oct 10, 2008
For all the talk of weaving public housing residents into the fabric of the city, the Chicago Housing Authority’s ambitious Plan for Transformation includes this inconvenient fact:
When the plan is complete, nearly 1 of every 10 of those families will live more than 100 blocks south of the Loop, tucked amid landfills, industrial parks and a sewage treatment plant.
Mayor Richard Daley declared eight years ago that Chicago would end “the failed policies of the past.” Yet a Tribune investigation found that the city has pumped hundreds of millions of federal tax dollars into housing complexes that preserve the very policies the plan was meant to reverse.
The largest is the Altgeld-Murray Homes, a sprawling 190-acre development built on the Far South Side for black factory workers during World War II. At that development alone, the CHA plans to spend $451 million rehabbing 1,998 barracks-style apartments, with politically connected Walsh Construction doing much of the work.
Altgeld sits in one of the city’s most isolated areas. The nearest supermarket is miles away. Only one bus route serves the development. And it backs up to the Little Calumet River in an area once known as “The Toxic Doughnut” because of a long history of environmental problems.
Crime is another challenge. Open drug markets thrive at Altgeld, and shootings occur frequently enough to keep residents on edge.
“You guys are an island out here, cut off from everyone else,” John Ball, the local police commander, noted during a recent community meeting with residents.
For generations, public housing in Chicago was a highly visible failure. In the mid-1990s, the agency began demolishing more than 13,000 public housing units on prime real estate to make way for new developments where poor residents are supposed to live alongside wealthier families.
Those mixed-income developments are now more than a decade behind schedule. The same problem plagues the CHA’s efforts to rehab the public housing that wasn’t demolished, with fewer than half of those units finished.
At Altgeld, about two-thirds of the units lie empty, despite a severe shortage of affordable housing across the region. Some of the apartments are awaiting rehab, and others remain vacant because the CHA has had trouble persuading residents displaced by demolition to relocate to Altgeld.
Many current residents are pleased that the development is being spruced up, and CHA officials envision Altgeld becoming a thriving community. “We are providing safe, clean, updated housing,” said Lewis Jordan, the CHA’s chief executive. “We don’t subscribe to this notion that it’s in isolation.”
But even some housing advocates who support the Plan for Transformation question using scarce resources on a development that could continue Chicago’s long history of segregated public housing.
“It really flies in the face of the whole idea” of integrating poor residents into the broader community, said Bob Whitfield, an attorney who represents the CHA’s tenant council. “It’ll take a miracle to make it work.”
Waiting lists prompt housing authority to halt applications
Uncategorized Oct 9, 2008
Alabama- The Troy Housing Authority is about to put the longest halt ever on accepting certain public housing applications.
Beginning Oct. 20, the housing authority will no longer take applications for one-bedroom public housing units, and Oct. 21, it will stop taking Section.. Tell Me More..
Affordable housing ‘not easy’
Uncategorized Oct 9, 2008
Residents in 2,029 Yonkers Public Housing Will Soon Enjoy Verizon’s FiOS Services
Uncategorized Oct 7, 2008
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NEW YORK, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire/ – Residents of 18 apartment buildings operated by the Municipal H.. Tell Me More..
Protest ignites as Atlantic City Housing Authority turns away hundreds of applicants
Uncategorized Oct 6, 2008
ATLANTIC CITY – A crowd of hundreds desperately trying to apply for low-income living were turned away by a disorganized city Housing Authority Monday morning, igniting a protest that started at an Arctic Avenue apartment comple.. Tell Me More..
Mother of drug suspect evicted from public housing
Uncategorized Oct 4, 2008
ASBURY PARK — The mother of a city man arrested on heroin charges last March has been evicted from her longtime public housing home because of it.
Joanne Brown, 57, has lived in her Asbury Park Village apartment for at least 15 years but will be out on Friday after Superior.. Tell Me More..
Public housing for seniors gets bold new look
Uncategorized Oct 4, 2008
CMHA rebuilding plan – With its pristine lobby, fresh units and modern library, the new Worley Terrace is a welcome improvement from the old low-income senior apartment complex that had been considered an eyesore and a scary place to live.
But the Franklinton property, .. Tell Me More..
Buswell to review public housing in affluent areas
Uncategorized Oct 3, 2008
The State Government has ordered a review of public housing stock in Perth’s affluent suburbs.
The Housing Minister, Troy Buswell, says when Homeswest houses are vacated in those areas they will be sold.
The money will be used to buy more properties in cheaper suburbs.
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Grove Terrace awaits rebuilding partner
Uncategorized Oct 3, 2008
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Housing-discrimination proposal elicits objections
Uncategorized Oct 2, 2008
An amended Dane County fair-housing ordinance intended to prevent discrimination in housing will likely be debated in October.
The original ordinance passed the County Board last October but was vetoed by Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk because, due to a clerical error, it left out a prev.. Tell Me More..
Chicago Housing Authority
Uncategorized Oct 1, 2008HUD Gives Grant for $1.5B Plan Continuation
Uncategorized Oct 1, 2008
CHICAGO-The US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced Friday a $20 million grant for the Chicago Housing Authority, for a project that is part of the $1.5 billion “Plan for Transformation” to rebuild the city’s public housing projects. The grant will support the.. Tell Me More..
Don’t Vote!
Uncategorized Oct 1, 2008
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