Sentences with phrase «settlement house in»

Two years later, in 1916, she started teaching kindergarten at the Thomas Garrett Settlement House in Wilmington, Delaware, staying there until 1923.

She received her teaching certificate in 1913 after which she taught for four years at Thomas Garrett Settlement House in Wilmington Delaware.

• No Beginner classes for new students in 3rd through 5th Grades There will no longer be classes for beginner level students (grades 3 — 5) at the Grand Street location in Williamsburg, Brooklyn nor at Jacob Riis Settlement House in LIC.

I also led a group of housing - project boys in various activities one afternoon a week at an old - line settlement house in East Cambridge led by the charismatic Elsa Baldwin, a chain - smoking, tireless, compassionate socialist, community organizer, and unbending poverty warrior.

Her model for applying the animating ethos of mothering to civic life is Addams (1860 - 1935), founder of Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago.

The Israeli government, meanwhile, has authorised the building of hundreds of thousands of new settlement houses in the West Bank and the so - called «barrier», which is in part a 26 ft tall (8metres) concrete wall, will soon reach completion.

The new talent center operates under the umbrella of Hire East Harlem, an initiative guided by a number of area institutions, including STRIVE, Mount Sinai Health System and Union Settlement Association, one of the largest settlement houses in New York.

Not exact matches

In an unusual mid-December display of bi-partisanship, the House Financial Services committee announced plans to hold hearings to address SEC settlement practices and «concerns about accountability and transparency,» according to Chairman Spencer Bachus.

But the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which was identified in the article as having suggested that amount, said in a statement on Tuesday that «no one at this agency — including the secretary — ever floated a $ 20 billion settlement figure.»

Another issue is whether to include the bank's March settlement with the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency in the calculation, one person said.

«If one spouse stays in the house they may have only their $ 250,000 exclusion for taxes on the gains, but with prior planning and inclusion in the settlement document, they may receive $ 500,000 exclusion,» she noted.

So too have analysts at SQM Research, which said there could be an oversupply of 8000 new dwellings — both apartments and house and land products — in greater Brisbane this year compounding concerns about settlements of off - the - plan sales.

In January, he was removed from the House Ethics Committee and announced he wouldn't seek re-election after The New York Times reported on the settlement.

In February 2014, JPMC agreed to pay $ 614,000,000 to settle charges asserted by the United States Attorney's Officer for the Southern District of New York, the Federal Housing Administration, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Department of Veteran Affairs resolving False Claims Act, FIRREA and other civil and administrative liability for FHA and VA insurance claims that have been paid to JP Morgan Chase since 2002 through the date of settlement.

The Bank has become a clearing house for the majority of domestic banks in foreign exchange settlements and a key service provider for banks in CIS countries and Baltic States in Belarusian ruble payments.

NEW YORK — A New York state judge has approved nearly all of an $ 8.5 - billion settlement between Bank of America and large investors who suffered losses in mortgage - backed bonds stemming from the housing meltdown.

A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Boston with the support of the Gold Anti-Trust Action Committee accuses five investment houses, the Bank for International Settlements, and top officials of the U.S. Treasury Department and U.S. Federal Reserve Board of conspiring to suppress the price of gold.

In this case the banks would be hit really hard because if house prices have dropped significantly — the banks will be paying out huge settlements and also be unable to sell the houses for a good price.

(once again history which I'm guessing you all failed that week) This means Israel has right to build as many settlements and bulldoze as many houses they want because the Palestinians gambled that land in war and lost.

A Syrian refugee boy does homework sitting on the ground at Rajab, an Informal Tented Settlement in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley that houses Syrian refugees.

He argues persuasively that the fate of public neighbors who have found their way into Boston's public housing projects in the last 70 years must be imbedded in the longer, wider story of the treatment of such neighbors since the city's initial settlement by the Puritans.

A man may be ambitious to conquer a neighboring chief and steal his wives, or he may be ambitious to make a city neighborhood through his settlement house a more decent place in which to live.

This is a tiny hamlet of nineteenth - century settlement, much reduced from its ancient prosperity, yet the house is there, newly built from the ashes of its fiery ruin, Piety Hill, an Italianate pile, which began as a lumber baron's residence, sank to a refuge for impoverished gentry, and became the seat of a literary man — a history suggestive of larger changes in American society since 1918.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

Efforts at occupation and settlement in Canaan by separate and isolated tribes, with emphasis on the successes of Simeon, Judah and the house of Joseph.

He lost ALL his assets which were given to his wife in a rotten divorce settlement, and although she still lives in his mansion, Eboue is living in a smaller house in Enfield, where they lived before moving to the marital home, but he is being forced to hand that over as well, which will make him homeless.

Irony is, I don't hate women in general but after dating online, you can see women who lived with their husbands until their house was paid off or their schools loans paid and or both and then had the court take his kids away and put his ass out on the street as part of a divorce settlement along with a substantial awarding of monies.

Such civic - minded uses for the buildings hearken back to the first field houses, built in the early 1900s under the direction of parks Supt. Frank J. Foster.Foster was inspired by Chicago's first settlement house — large buildings where immigrants could go for shelter and social services — when he ordered the construction of the first 10 field houses, which opened in 1905, said Park District historian Julia Bachrach.

The grants are going to: Ravinia Festival, $ 300,000 over three years for arts education and programming at Lawndale community organizations; Chicago Children's Museum, $ 80,000 for general operations; Steppenwolf Theatre Company, $ 80,000 for general operations; Association House, $ 75,000 for its integrated arts program; Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, $ 75,000 for general operations; Northwestern University Settlement Association, $ 75,000 for arts programming in the West Town and Humboldt Park neighborhoods; and WTTW - Ch. 11, $ 75,000 for the Artbeat Chicago program series.

An open house at Naper Settlement in Naperville will new collectibles available at the Museum Store.

Naper Settlement is playing host to an informal Volunteer Open House designed to show prospective volunteers exhibits and opportunities to pitch in and help Naperville's 19th Century village.

I explore people's decision to utilise the South Africa Police Service and the degree to which their decisions were influenced by the everyday politics of living in an informal settlement, and their membership of the shack dweller's social movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, a group which fights for the housing rights and the dignity of shack dwellers.

In a statement to BuzzFeed News, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said she was not aware of the settlement.

That this House notes that ISIL poses a direct threat to the United Kingdom; welcomes United Nations Security Council Resolution 2249 which determines that ISIL constitutes an «unprecedented threat to international peace and security» and calls on states to take «all necessary measures» to prevent terrorist acts by ISIL and to «eradicate the safe haven they have established over significant parts of Iraq and Syria»; further notes the clear legal basis to defend the UK and our allies in accordance with the UN Charter; notes that military action against ISIL is only one component of a broader strategy to bring peace and stability to Syria; welcomes the renewed impetus behind the Vienna talks on a ceasefire and political settlement; welcomes the Government's continuing commitment to providing humanitarian support to Syrian refugees; underlines the importance of planning for post-conflict stabilisation and reconstruction in Syria; welcomes the Government's continued determination to cut ISIL's sources of finance, fighters and weapons; notes the requests from France, the US and regional allies for UK military assistance; acknowledges the importance of seeking to avoid civilian casualties, using the UK's particular capabilities; notes the Government will not deploy UK troops in ground combat operations; welcomes the Government's commitment to provide quarterly progress reports to the House; and accordingly supports Her Majesty's Government in taking military action, specifically airstrikes, exclusively against ISIL in Syria; and offers its wholehearted support to Her Majesty's Armed Forces.

Brooklyn Assemblyman Charles Barron spent Christmas Eve slamming the man who trounced him in a 2012 race for the House: Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, who had asserted in a television interview that the United States should have vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an end to Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.

Settlements expand Jewish influence in the West Bank and relieve Israel from housing shortages; the separation wall cuts off Jerusalem's Arabs from Ramallah and the rest of the West Bank; and the on - going control of Gaza by Hamas's extremists justifies Israel's harsh clamp down on West Bank inhabitants.

The supportive housing component will be managed by BronxWorks, a human service and settlement house based in the Bronx.

NEW YORK, NY — Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced today that his office has secured settlement agreements with three real estate brokerage firms operating in New York City, Nassau County, and Westchester County, following investigations that revealed unlawful housing discrimination against potential applicants with Section 8 housing vouchers.

Language advanced by Cuomo and both legislative houses would prohibit confidentiality clauses in settlements unless requested by the victim and bring more uniformity to the definition of harassment.

The drum beat of Astorino attack ads began in May, painting him as an «ultraconservative» on a complex affordable housing settlement in Westchester County and abortion, which he opposes.

New York's $ 182 million share of the nationwide $ 7 million Citigroup settlement includes at least $ 90 million in mortgage relief as well as directing funding for land banks and community development agencies aimed at housing for low - income earners, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office on Monday announced.

In a gaggle with reporters at the Capitol, Astorino said he agreed with the Senate GOP's one - house budget resolution when it came to distributing billions of dollars the state gained through windfall financial settlements.

While this development is part of the fair - housing settlement between Westchester County and the federal government, I'm proud to note that the County is going beyond the requirements of that agreement in the number of affordable housing units in the works.

In the Weeksville Cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beachwood Organization will develop one building with 44 units on three vacant lots.

Bronx, NY - New York State Homes and Community Renewal Commissioner James S. Rubin, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner Vicki Been, Settlement Housing Fund President Alexa Sewell celebrated the start of construction of a mixed - income 11 - story complex at 1561 Walton Avenue in the Mt. Eden neighborhood of the Bronx.

Westchester County donated the land, and the development is helping to meet its federal court settlement regarding the need for affordable housing in many of the County's communities, including the City of Rye.

In the Melrose - Concourse cluster, Settlement Housing Fund and the Beechwood Organization will develop two buildings with 36 units on two vacant lots.

Like in his lone televised debate against Mr. Astorino, Mr. Cuomo also blasted the Republican for fighting with the federal government about whether he's in compliance with a fair - housing settlement.

When Cuomo grabbed at $ 613 million in a housing settlement that Schneiderman's office was preparing to spend, and Schneiderman surrendered a portion of the funds.

County Executive Rob Astorino says Westchester has done everything it could to abide by the affordable housing settlement and create low - income homes in Westchester.