Inside the White House with Liz Landers
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... community. Real job creation comes from entrepreneurship, start-ups, helping scale new firms and helping existing companies grow. Paul Solman: Liu argues that investments in affordable housing, infrastructure, and education would do a local economy more good than tax lures. Amy Liu: It creates a perverse incentive of doing the ...
... a company if it would have come into the market anyway, when that $7 billion could be used for other critical community investments like preserving affordable housing, expanding or upgrading infrastructure?” As high-tech companies like Amazon cluster in urban areas in pursuit of a high-skilled technology workforce, those ...
... group. But Vang said she thought Jenkins’ race and gender did not define her campaign, especially for younger voters whose primary focus were issues like affordable housing and criminal justice. Sentiments like those reflect a growing sense that younger voters don’t fixate on gender, race and sexual orientation in ...
... largest city. The Democrat is facing a crowded field Tuesday, and polls show he is far ahead. De Blasio has campaigned on efforts to increase affordable housing and address his city's high cost of living. He's also cited low crime rates and touted his administration's rollout of ...
... network. But a future plan involves more than offices, says public policy director Michael Matthews. Michael Matthews: About half of that space will be for housing, 1,500 units, about 225 of that affordable housing. Retail space. Grocery stores. Possibly a hotel and some other things. Spencer Michels: Matthews revealed ...
... Medina: I think that the most critical thing that our community and our elected officials can do is really think about, not only increasing the housing stock, but making sure that there's affordable housing, and a significant amount of it. Cat Wise: For construction worker Agustin Aguilera, the promise ...
... fact, interfere with environmental disaster. So, it's a tradeoff that they have made in Houston that has led to the fact that there is affordable housing, even though it might be next to a machine shop and a junkyard. MILES O'BRIEN: It seems we prefer to fund the ...
... Miami. Reducing exposure now This alarming trend points to a need for more awareness, education and communication about flood risk, especially in inland counties. More affordable housing in nonflood zones and strategies to mitigate floods are also needed, especially inland. Why would people move to inland flood zone areas? Some ...
Tiny houses have become trendy in recent years, as people trade in traditional consumer lifestyles for a simpler option -- a living space that’s no more than 400 square feet. But in Detroit, these diminutive dwellings have a lofty goal: giving homeless and low-income people a chance at homeownership. Jeffrey Brown reports.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers return Monday from a monthlong break with a busy agenda that includes tackling the state's housing crisis and deciding whether to make California a statewide sanctuary for people living illegally in the U.S. [nh_links] Here's a look at some of the high-profile issues the Legislature will tackle in the last...
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