Sentences with phrase «years of social housing»

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

Before the end of this year, Social Development Minister Jean - Yves Duclos is slated to table a national housing strategy, the first bid by Ottawa to take a lead in the area — mostly dominated by provinces and cities — in decades.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

[1] Admittedly, the Trudeau government did announce $ 30 million in temporary funding for some social housing agreements in its first budget; but that was just two years of funding.

In spite of the economic and social turmoil, 1970 also became famous as the year that the King of Rock «N Roll, Elvis Presley, visited President Richard Nixon in the White House.

Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

«When we started 11 years ago, we found ourselves sitting in between [the] European headquarters of multinational companies based in Hammersmith and, on the other side of the church, social housing and tremendous amounts of disengaged youth who were a long way from jobs.

In my years as lead parent, I have gotten the kids out of the house in the morning; enforced bedtimes at night; monitored computer and TV use; attempted to ensure that homework got done right; encouraged involvement in sports and music; attended the baseball games, piano lessons, plays, and concerts that resulted; and kept tabs on social lives.

Inclusion criteria: ≤ 25 years, low educational level (primary school or prevocational secondary school), maximum 28 weeks of gestation, no previous live birth, understood Dutch, and at least 1 of the following additional risk factors: no social support, previously or currently experiencing domestic violence, psychosocial symptoms, unwanted and / or unplanned pregnancy, financial problems, housing difficulties, no education and / or employment and alcohol and / or drug use

Buffalo Police Officer Richard Hy, 29, a three - year member of the force last assigned to the Housing Unit, was suspended without pay over his video skits using the social media site Vine.

The housing situation in the capital has been descrbed by many as the «social - cleansing» of London and similar protests have been held around the city in the last year.

The same year, the estimated number of people on the social housing waiting register in England reached 1.7 million.

Here's something not a lot of people know: The Lib Dems have ensured the first net growth in the social rented housing sector for almost 40 years — its not even remotely enough, but it's a significant turnaround.

If implemented, from 2013, 670,000 households in the social sector will have their housing benefit cut by an average of # 13 per week - # 670 penalty a year - if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom according to DWP's proposed size criteria.

The Association is pleased to see # 170 million for the delivery of otherwise unfunded social homes especially at a time when we are building fewer houses per year than any time since 1945, although this will be, in the main, financed from savings from the existing housing budget.

The comment comes ahead of a major speech on immigration from the prime minister tomorrow in which he will insist foreign nationals pay for GP appointments and be resident two years before they can access social housing.

Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.

That requires some big and really bold policies, such as — childcare free at the point of use; building 10,000 social houses every year; raising real wages and tackling insecure work.

What is clear is that we have a chronic shortage of housing, social and private, with roots going back many years across both governing parties.

For many years Labour held to a policy of not allowing residents of Northern Ireland to apply for membership, [167] instead supporting the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) which informally takes the Labour whip in the House of Commons.

In a speech hosted by the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru, Peter Black AM will state that his party will double the current Social Housing Grant budget of # 35million per year to # 70million per year in the next Assembly term and set a target of 20,000 new affordable homes over the same period.

Carwyn Jones has been an outstanding leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister for more than 8 years, and I was his colleague and Minister in his Government for 15 years, securing pioneering legislation in housing, social services, health, trade union rights and the environment.

The ten - year plan for bringing down the peace walls forms part of a broader social integration package featuring measures on shared schools and housing, as well as a surge on regeneration projects.

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

Firstly, years of undersupply have made social housing an unattainable prospect for most.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, who chairs the state Assembly's committee on social services, urges New York to embrace a «proven long - term solution to our homelessness crisis by creating and adequately funding 35,000 units of supportive housing over the next 10 years.»

The Youth Foundation, a centre for social innovation, is hosting events at all three party conferences this year in the unusual location of local currey houses.

Years of low investment in social housing, lack of regulation of the Private Rented Sector, and the insecurity of shorthold tenancies has created a system where those who are struggling can fall too easily through the cracks.

Here's something not a lot of people know: the Lib Dems have ensured the first net growth in the social rented housing sector for almost 40 years — its not even remotely enough, but it's a significant turnaround.

The lack of supply of affordable homes has a detrimental impact on the mobility of social housing tenants - many languish on transfer lists for more than two years.

Our research estimates half a million of the UK's 3.9 million social households are victims of the Social Housing Squeeze and their inability to move is costing the UK economy # 542 million asocial households are victims of the Social Housing Squeeze and their inability to move is costing the UK economy # 542 million aSocial Housing Squeeze and their inability to move is costing the UK economy # 542 million a year.

The Welsh Liberal Democrats Housing Spokesperson, Peter Black has said that the Welsh Government must do better after the number of social housing units in Wales increased by just 267 in the last financiaHousing Spokesperson, Peter Black has said that the Welsh Government must do better after the number of social housing units in Wales increased by just 267 in the last financiahousing units in Wales increased by just 267 in the last financial year.

The Housing and Homeless Coalition, the Onondaga County Department of Social Services and various shelters are using a countywide coordination system to monitor individuals with the longest stays, some for years, and make them a priority for hHousing and Homeless Coalition, the Onondaga County Department of Social Services and various shelters are using a countywide coordination system to monitor individuals with the longest stays, some for years, and make them a priority for housinghousing.

Always rooted in the wisdom of frontline poverty - fighters this year's published research includes the importance of the earliest years for child development, the breakdown of systems for children - in - care, Britain's asylum shambles, social housing and welfare reform.

One floor CLP delegate (James Handy from Warwick and Leamington) was then allowed to move a contemporary resolution calling for the provision of more social rented housing, particularly to stem the rise in homelessness which was 5 % last year in Britain.

The effort, organized by members of Community Voices Heard Power, Interfaith Clergy for Social Action, WESPAC, Working Families Party and the Westchester Workforce Housing Coalition, comes after a year of advocacy to secure this funding in the 2016 Westchester County Budget.

Finally, in fall 2007, nine years after his run - in with Dursban, Killingsworth applied for Social Security disability, packed his belongings, and drove west in his Honda Civic to search for housing among a community of folks like himself — all suffering from what is loosely called «environmental illness» — in the remote high desert of Arizona.

And the social side of my year in Germany provides many treasured memories: cheerful trips to the mountains, nice gatherings in someone's house, and the magnificent evening concerts in the small monastery nearby.

Fascinating new friendships crop up at the end of the year, once Jupiter swings into your social eleventh house for 13 months.

I'm always having to think to plan the running of the household (hubby, 3 kids, an in - law in the granny flat, 2 adult stepkids not living with us but with their own problems), appointments for a 2yo with gross motor delays, sometimes doing stressful paid work for extra dosh, time poor, difficulty recovering from 6 years of sleep deprivation, poor social life, dissatisfaction with cluttered house but no time for non-essentials, the list could go on.

im a 27 year old mature young man, i like to work out and go to the gym, i play sports and i also do music.i am a social drinker, i like to party but mostly with people i know and its usually the house scene, i take good care of myself and my body, anything else you would like to know do nt be afraid...

After more than a year of debate, Westtown Township supervisors voted Thursday night to deny Toll Bros. its application to build a 317 - unit housing Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

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Clattering with colour and noise, it follows six - year - old tearaway Moonee (Brooklynn Prince) and her mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) through a chaotic summer spent scraping by in a social housing motel on the outskirts of Disney World Florida.

A Middlebury, Vt., high school social studies teacher was honored as the 2001 National Teacher of the Year last week at a ceremony at the White House.

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[6] The columns in the table address: a) the vehicle by which funding is delivered (e.g., tax expenditure vs. social program); b) the particulars of that funding vehicle (e.g., payments to individuals vs. program providers or states); c) the dollar value of the benefit to a family; d) whether the tax benefits are refundable (provide refunds to low income families in excess of their tax liability); e) whether the benefits are progressive (inverse to family income); f) the total annual program expenditure that is conditional on children (e.g., spending on housing vouchers that goes to families without children is excluded); and g) the estimated portion of the total expenditure that goes to children under five years of age.