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Jessamine Faces Need: Homelessness hidden within rural landscape
jkleppinger@jessaminejournal.comEditor’s note: This article includes a firsthand account of homelessness from “Dawn,” a Nicholasville resident who prefers to remain anonymous. The Journal was put in touch with Dawn through Jessica Dodgen, the Jessamine school district&...Tags: Environmental Issues, Conservation, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, The Salvation Army
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Section 8 rental-assistance waiting list to open in 87 counties including Jessamine
news@jessaminejournal.comKentucky Housing Corporation (KHC) has announced that the waiting list for the Housing Choice Voucher Program or Section 8 Rental Assistance will accept applications from midnight Friday, July 1, through midnight Sunday, July 31, in the 87 counties in...Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, Rentals, Kentucky
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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: Baltimore Housing, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy
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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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Local housing authorities approve of end to lifetime public housing benefit
Section 8 vouchers and public housing units may no longer be a lifetime benefit, according to a proposal by President Barack Obama, and local housing authority directors say they support the idea. As it stands now, tenants in good standing can't be...Tags: Chicago Housing Authority, The Wall Street Journal, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Politics, Housing and Urban Planning
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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: The Wall Street Journal, Politics, Natural Disasters, Hurricanes, Interior Policy
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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: Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Chicago Housing Authority, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Rentals
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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: Minority Groups, Condos and Houses, Rental Service, Section 8 (housing), Annapolis
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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: Chicago Housing Authority, Politics, Housing and Urban Planning, Metra, 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: Chicago Housing Authority, Politics, Rentals, Housing and Urban Planning, Rental Service
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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: Elections, Economy, Business and Finance, Politics, Local Elections, Housing and Urban Planning
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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: Politics, Johns Hopkins University, Housing and Urban Planning, Rental Service, Interior Policy
Dec 7, 2011
|Story| Jessamine Journal
Jul 6, 2011
|Story| Jessamine Journal
May 17, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 11, 2013
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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
|Story| South Bend Tribune
Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
Apr 23, 2013
|Column| Baltimore Sun
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