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... limit affordable housing. California's growing homeless population is one reason there is little talk of prohibiting construction in high-risk areas like Paradise. Rural areas are generally much more affordable than cities like San Francisco and Los Angeles, which face their own dangers from earthquakes, fires and rising oceans.
... state law retroactively converted many low-level drug and property crimes to misdemeanors. Apple is pledging $2.5 billion to fight California's shortage of affordable housing. The money will go to build low- to moderate-income homes and create a fund for mortgage help. Google and Facebook have already ...
... the preparation time under a 2012 contract negotiated during the last major walkout by their union. The city also refused union-favored language backing broader affordable housing policies in the city and state legislative changes affecting the district's mayor-appointed school board and state law on the union's ...
... historic." The Chicago strike was another test of efforts by teachers' unions to use contract talks typically focused on salaries and benefits and force sweeping conversations about broader problems that affect schools in large, politically left-leaning cities, including affordable housing, added protections for immigrants and the size of classes.
On this edition for Saturday, October 26, rising winds and forced power outages stoke new fears as California wildfires continue to burn, a look at how Miami is tackling an affordable housing crisis, and the band Spoon is staying afloat in a transforming music industry. Hari Sreenivasan anchors from New ...
... Feldman: I don't believe it's any one person's responsibility. Yes, it's a terrible situation. This is all through the country that affordable housing is slowly disappearing. Alicia Menendez: Martin Feldman represents Miami Soar in the lawsuits with tenants. He says given the improvements and the park ...
So a lot of folks will say that some of what CTU is asking for, affordable housing, for example, doesn't belong in the teachers collective bargaining agreement. The teachers have argued that they want it in the contract because they don't trust politicians. Just because she campaigned on ...
... the teachers who have been out on strike since last Thursday are seeking commitments for support staff hiring alongside other demands including higher pay and affordable housing citywide. The demands are part of the union's "social justice" agenda. Bridget Nelson, a social sciences teacher at a magnet high school ...
... values of Hong Kong." Standing ramrod-straight, she then launched into a dry and detailed explanation of plans to tackle Hong Kong's shortage of affordable housing, a long-standing source of discontent, and other welfare issues. With its focus on such minutiae as building new tunnels and freeing up ...
... Philadelphia also has another distinction, however, which is the second most number of colleges and universities of any city in the nation. And that makes affordable housing hard to come by, whether you're at a big four-year university or even a two-year community college. Just steps away ...
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