Sentences with phrase «about social housing»

A Scot in the audience asked about social housing, giving Sturgeon an easy hit when it came to the Tories» planned extension of right - to - buy («one of the worst ideas I've ever heard»), although there was much Twitter commentary to the effect that Sturgeon's parents had taken advantage of the original legislation in 1984.

It wasn't just the chancellor who seemed to forget all about social housing.

In the Commons, Chi Onwurah (Labour, rather unsubtle bright red top) asks yet another backbench question about social housing headaches and the bedroom tax.

So how did somebody protesting about social housing get caught in the Nexus net?

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In a briefing at the White House on Tuesday, press secretary Sean Spicer was asked by reporters about whether a social - media gag order had been placed on the Interior Department.

You can help businesses and their new employees who move to town by finding new housing and office space, and give them tips about schools, dining and shopping options, social activities and the best way to commute to work.

«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.

Yesterday I blogged about rental housing in Yellowknife, over at the Northern Public Affairs web site. Specifically, I blogged about a recent announcement by the city's largest for - profit landlord that it plans to «tighten» its policies vis - a-vis renting to recipients of «income assistance» (which, in most parts of Canada, is known generically as social assistance).

Lawmakers continue to be concerned about how content is managed by social media platforms and the House Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Thursday «to examine social media filtering and policing practices.»

Attorneys for the three social media giants testified before the House and Senate intelligence committees last Nov. 1 about how Russia exploited their platforms to meddle in the 2016 presidential election.

Housing represents about one - third of all expenses for those 65 and older, according to the Social Security Administration.

Part of the reason things changed in 2015 was because the social network figured out it was better for business to keep all that information about its millions of users in house, Vaidhyanathan said.

One would hardly realize that the problem facing U.S. industrial employment is that wage earners must earn enough to pay for the most expensive housing in the world (the FDIC is trying to limit mortgages to absorb just 32 per cent of the borrower's budget), the most expensive medical care and Social Security in the world (12.4 per cent FICA withholding), high personal debt levels owed to banks and rapacious credit - card companies (about 15 per cent) and a tax shift off property and the higher wealth brackets onto labor income and consumer goods (another 15 per cent or so).

If they are, you will need to complete the application with information about your employment status, income, address, housing payments, Social Security Number and other personal information.

One social action group in New York, as a result of the shocking facts about living conditions learned during a door - to - door survey in a slum area, became «fired up» about the need for low - cost housing.

«This issue of public sector pay has demonstrated that there is little sign of a coherent plan about how to fund the health service, education, social care, defence, housing, or transport infrastructure.»

It helps a little to tell yourself that, no, their lives are not as perfectly put - together as their social media presence would make them appear, and yes, even Perfect Internet Mom Friend is probably riddled with doubts about herself, but even those known truths bring little comfort when it's 11 a.m. on a Saturday morning, your house is a full - on mess, the kids are all staring at screens, and you're cruising Instagram, waiting to feel inadequate.

Step out of the house for a social event like the Pregnancy Party or bring baby to sit with you while you learn about introducing solids.

I'm the only member of my family that doesn't currently live in social housing, so I know about estates.

If they're so concerned about people needing social houses perhaps they'd like to start building some.

The Yaa Ansah Family, through its spokesperson, Oheneba Kwesi Oppong, explained that an injunction has been slapped on Odeneho Kwafo Akoto III, from holding himself as the paramount chief Akwamu Traditional Area, hence debarred from organizing any social or traditional events in that capacity, until issues about his legitimacy, is resolved by the Judicial Committee of the National House of Chiefs.

When the government talks about its «pay to stay» policy, ministers usually point to all those greedy social housing tenants who earn mega bucks but continue living in a council house.

The 2010 Spending Review reduced the DCLG's annual housing spending - which supports social housing - by about 60 % to # 4.5 bn for the four years starting 2011 - 12, compared with # 8.4 bn over the previous three years.

Social media lit up with activists enthusing about plans to nationalise rail and energy companies, abolish tuition fees and build 100,000 council houses each year.

This is in fact what has happened, in a speech by Johnson at Chatham House, where apart from reference to employment and social rights and how these must be preserved it was largely about our national interest in the form of the economy, investment, security and trade and how these would be threatened by leaving.

Buried away in the Financial Times's (#) story this morning about a «joint appearance on the eve of the Budget» that David Cameron and Nick Clegg will apparently make - to «make several announcements, including shared equity schemes, social housing and support for first - time buyers» - was the following detail:

By showing that we are alive to people's concerns, this allows Labour to start having those crucial conversations with the public about what they are really upset about which are things that Labour cares about — pressures on local health and social care services; a lack of local investment and housing; not sharing the wealth and opportunity that London has; systemic inequality; culture; integration.

He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».

Whether it's the young mothers who formed the Focus E15 campaign in Newham to protest against local families being shipped out of the area, or the residents of Cressingham Gardens in Lambeth who have fought tirelessly to stop the demolition of their much loved homes, social housing tenants across the capital have been speaking out about the desperate situations they've found themselves in.

Uncertainty about the government's housing plans extends beyond intermediate social housing rates, however, as the row over the # 400 housing benefit cap rumbles on.

Coffee House's James Forsyth has written for the Washington Post about the ways in which Britain's Tories have made social conservatism fashionable again:

«My worry there is that people's housing is part of their sense of stability, part of their sense of having a secure future, and I'm also a bit worried about the way in which this could lead to a kind of social zoning, where middle - class areas get more solidly middle class and other people are pushed out to the edge,» he said in an interview with the BBC.

Social housing — at its best — is about building strong and vibrant communities — not just boxes for people to reside in.

Delegates then picked eight «contemporary motions» including housing, the NHS and social care - but not a motion about the party's policy on the future relationship with the EU.

«We have to recognise that people's perceptions are powerful, so it's vital that social housing providers and policy makers work to foster understanding about what is really happening on the ground,» he said.

With insufficient social housing to provide a safety net for the majority of people, those who are «just about managing» are being pushed towards the private rented sector (PRS).

RealClearPolitics.com quoted openly gay Republican U.S. House candidate Carl DeMaio about how he's been received by opposite ends of the political spectrum: «I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.»

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (D - CA), vowed to «preserve» Social Security about a month ago.

These included: the need to examine the best ways to tackle anti-social behaviour; putting industrial democracy back at the forefront of our economic policies; giving a higher profile to fuel poverty; the need to spend more on social housing; and a desire to talk about policy to those with similar perspectives from outside the Liberal Democrats.

I hope this in - house debate gets Ms. Stefanik to actually answer a Safety - Net question about Social Security, or Medicare, etc..

The dominant issues in the debate, which was moderated by NBC Meet the Press anchor David Gregory, were the housing crisis and a rousing conversation about the future of Social Security.

Mayor Bill de Blasio has gotten a lot of push - back over his handling of a spiraling homeless population so far during his tenure, but now his administration is preparing to introduce his most comprehensive homeless - services plan to date: Nearly $ 3 billion in funding for about 15,000 units of supportive housing and accompanying social and health services for all participants.

«We always get caught up in the social and housing aspects, but what about the economic future?»

Cuomo pledged a child care tax credit, tuition - free public college for about 80 percent of New York households, more jobs through investment in the private sector and public - private partnership, support for the homeless and funding for affordable housing, all while New York will be vigilant, he said, protecting and promoting the state's progressive social bonafides.

It is our failures in social policy, to provide council housing, to protect workers» (and trade union) rights, and to do enough to combat low pay and job insecurity that are the root cause of public concern about immigration.

sadly labour has sod all to talk about with the social house building it did, people in my area on the priority waiting list may have to wait five or six years.

Also fueling Clinton - Sherrod's excitement about social psychology was her participation in a research project that focused on how social support — safe houses, counseling, intervention programs, and so on — helps people dealing with difficult social issues.

Production and preparation both contribute about 50 pounds of carbon dioxide, but it varies from state to state and house to house,» said Paul Fischbeck, professor of social and decisions sciences in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Scisocial and decisions sciences in the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social SciSocial Sciences.

Such training could also include aspects about the types of social settings associated with sexual advances, such as bars, house parties or in a bedroom rather than sidewalks, classes or office spaces.

Science NOW contacted Facebook's in - house social scientists about the work.