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... turned them away with a copy of Wright’s decision. This didn’t sit well. Some landlords said they wouldn’t be able to offer affordable housing. Some said they’d find someone to run against Jegley in the next election. He told them to go for it, then ran ...
... eviction crisis — a shortage of affordable housing and a lack of living wages, Pattillo says. Not a single county in the country has enough rental housing for low-income residents. Most low-income renting families spend at least half of their income on housing and utilities, while nearly a quarter ...
... an individual's health -- are becoming even more apparent now. One way she thinks these deficits could be addressed is by putting more resources toward affordable housing, as well as telemedicine, in order to expand access for low-income patients. Sen said he hopes the confluence of heat waves and ...
... help low-and middle-income families cover down payments on their first homes. It also pledges to build 1.5 million new homes and public housing units in hopes of addressing the "affordable housing crisis" which has hit many of the nation's marquee cities and disproportionately hurt people of ...
... of that conversation, provided by the Biden campaign to The Associated Press, shows he again declined to support defunding police, Barkan raises the issue of police reform and asks whether Biden would funnel money into social services, mental health counseling and affordable housing to help reduce civilian interactions with police.
... that has traditionally held bipartisan appeal. Democrats hailed the House bill, which goes far beyond transportation to fund schools, health care facilities, public utilities and affordable housing. Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and a sponsor of the legislation, called it a "transformational ...
... African Americans at the hands of police. As politicians consider reform, they must include reforms that divest dollars from police departments and invest them in affordable housing, said Marc Dones, a consultant who advises governments on ways to improve their homeless response systems with a focus on equity and anti ...
... that we are not simply investing in public safety, but we're building a safer public through education, through health care, through food security, through affordable housing, and that we not see these things as being in conflict, but they have to be part of a holistic vision of what ...
... right? We have imaginations. Let's use them. Does safety look like community-based security? Does safety look like mental health? Does it look like affordable housing? Does it look like the security guard that works at your school? We really need to just take that time to dream of ...
Mosqueda, the Seattle council's budget chair, announced an inquest into the police budget to get a better understanding of how the department spends money. She said she wants to cut police funding by half and reinvest the money "in communities that we've failed," including in affordable housing and ...
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