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... the ban last night in a bid to help low- and moderate-income tenants. Seattle has some of the nation's highest rents and widespread homelessness. The bill faces a possible veto by the mayor, plus a likely court challenge. And Wall Street had a relatively quiet day. The Dow ...
... and since 2016 as the leader of a minority administration with the tacit support of Fianna Fail. The current campaign was dominated by domestic problems, especially a growing homelessness crisis, house prices that have risen faster than incomes and a public health system that hasn’t kept up with demand.
... families in five cities. Megan Sandel: We found that those families that were homeless and the families that were behind on rent had very similar adverse health outcomes, which signaled to us that homelessness is bad, but behind on rent is just as bad for kids' health and their parents.
... relief. In 2017, Kids4Community made care packages for survivors of the Puebla earthquake in Mexico and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. Another key focus is homelessness -- an issue that has taken on particular significance for the group’s young founder. A few years ago, as he remembers it, Pala was ...
Gentrification and a shortage of affordable housing has fueled displacement in cities from Washington, D.C., to Portland, and homelessness rose for three years in a row, with states such as California and Idaho struggling to accommodate those affected by the crisis. We saw the human toll and politicization of ...
... billion two-year budget, Inslee said Washington must do more to find housing for people. The state has the fifth-highest per-capita rate of homelessness of all U.S. states. “This homelessness problem touches every part of the state,” said Inslee, a Democrat. In addition to adding shelter beds ...
... planning to implement something called “inclusionary zoning,” requiring developers to include affordable units in large, new apartment buildings. And the mayor has plans to tackle homelessness and strengthen tenants’ rights. As for the single-family zoning change, it was officially adopted by the Minneapolis City Council earlier this month and ...
... bishops also heard a presentation from Sister Donna Markham, president of Catholic Charities USA, about a new initiative to ease the nationwide problem of chronic homelessness. She said pilot programs are under way in Detroit; St. Louis; Las Vegas; Portland, Oregon, and Spokane, Washington, with a goal of reducing homelessness ...
... responses to sexual assault in the military by shifting prosecution from military commanders to independent prosecutors. He also wants to put particular focus on stemming homelessness among women vets, many of whom may have experienced sexual trauma . He pointed to his seven-month deployment in Afghanistan in 2014 and watching ...
... welcomed many more. It became the first children's program to feature someone with Down syndrome. It's had puppets with HIV and in foster care, invited children in wheelchairs, dealt with topics like jailed parents, homelessness, women's rights, military families and even girls singing about loving their hair.
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