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... Francisco voters were deciding a citizen-backed initiative to restrict the operations of Airbnb, the room-rental site, and a $310 million bond package for affordable housing. In Washington state, a proposal backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen would add state penalties for anyone who imports certain animal products ...
... is a -- if they were to be abolished, which is possible, there is still that argument about the historic role where you started about allowing affordable housing for so many people. BETHANY MCLEAN: Right. I don't think they will be abolished, and I have actually come to the point ...
... United States today, 11.2 million of them are severely burdened by rent, according to a newly released study from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and Enterprise Community Partners, an affordable housing advocacy group. By 2025, that number could grow to 15 million severely burdened renters nationwide out ...
... signs of physical rebirth are everywhere. And I absolutely applaud that. But what New Orleans needs today is an effort to build more work force housing, more affordable housing, more housing that people can both rent and own in terms of where we are. So that speaks, Gwen, really to ...
... what, by giving tax breaks to developers? How? JULIAN CASTRO: It might be one of several things. It might be demonstrating that with respect to housing choice vouchers they're ensuring that families who have a voucher can move to different parts of the community, that affordable housing is being ...
... citizens who had not been a part of the governance before and had not felt like the government is for them. So, whether it was affordable housing, restoring neighborhoods, your public places, getting the police in the neighborhoods as friends. Our police operate summer camp with kids. The kids hug ...
... said the bill "drastically short-changes job-creating investments critical to hardworking American families, like roads, bridges, and rail systems and access to safe and affordable housing." But Chairman Harold Rogers of Kentucky said majority Republicans are hamstrung by automatic spending cuts known as sequestration that are forcing a freeze ...
Nearly 300 volunteers have until 2 a.m. to find and survey every homeless person they can find on the streets of Washington, D.C. It’s part of Department of Housing and Urban Development's annual point-in-time count of the homeless.
Today in the Morning Line: Obama unveils tax increases on wealthy, credits for the middle class It’s the latest round of economic populism from this president Here’s everything else he’s proposed over the last two weeks ahead of the State of the Union Obama’s first salvo in tax reform negotiations: President Obama rolled out his...
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