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... t having enough of an effect on the lives of poor families in Jackson. Aisha Nyandoro: We were not seeing a successful transition out of affordable housing. We were not moving the needle on poverty. And the reason that that mattered to us is because so many of our families ...
... opportunity to expand our work to include more communities that want the same access to a better quality of life, including clean air and water, affordable housing, economic justice and more," Tlaib, who is in her second term, said in a statement. Michigan lost a seat following the census, dropping ...
... that work with the State Department. We are there from beginning to end, meaning we pick these individuals up from the airport. We find them affordable housing that they move into. With the help of volunteers, we will actually even furnish that housing with some modest furniture, stock the refrigerator ...
... is that then there was an adequate supply of affordable housing. And now we're seven million units short. And that's the driver. If housing is affordable, people will be housed. They won't be living on the street. It's really that housing is not affordable that they ...
Jared Bowen: Pre-pandemic, Madeline Grant Colety was more than 20 years into her career as an urban planner. Madeline Grant Colety: Working at kind of a national level on issues around fair housing and disaster recovery, as well as affordable housing and community development. Speaker: So, now, if you ...
... affordable housing to begin with. You know, this is a pretty rural region where there wasn't a lot of construction in terms of residential housing, especially affordable housing to begin with. And there's just a dearth. And now there's even more so after this catastrophic tornado. Hari ...
... around the country. But people involved with the effort readily concede it’s been a challenge for a number of reasons, including a scarcity of affordable housing, cutbacks to refugee programs under President Donald Trump as well as the sheer number of refugees. “It’s been a shock to the ...
... City Councilman Andre Dickens will be the new mayor. He won a Tuesday run-off after a campaign dominated by the issues of crime and affordable housing. And Oregon Congressman Peter DeFazio became the 19th Democrat to announce that he will retire from the U.S. House of Representatives after ...
... major issues, combating climate change, providing universal preschool, while slashing child care costs for younger kids, expanding government health care coverage, and creating more subsidized affordable housing, in all, some $1.7 trillion in new programs and spending. Democrats provide money for that by increasing taxes on big corporations and ...
... s first woman and first person of color elected mayor. The candidates, both Democrats in a nonpartisan race, have chiefly clashed over issues such as affordable housing, public education and transportation. But differences on policing and crime have also emerged. Wu, daughter of Taiwanese immigrants and a protégé of liberal ...
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