Sentences with phrase «builds houses for poor»

So believers in God bear children, make art or worship God because they feel called to do so — even if they realize they could be spending their time more «usefully» fighting hunger or building houses for the poor.

They're adopting blind / disabled children and building houses for the poor.

Like former President Carter, he will likely devote his time to building houses for the poor.

John Gill of Carlsbad, California, paid his own expenses to spend his college spring break building houses for the poor in Mexico.

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Who decide to maybe house some of their poorer congregants than build a Monument to their ability to raise funds for attention getting.

Another developer built low income housing for poor people.

Luke 4:18 - 19, Isaiah 58:6 - 12 and Matthew 25:31 - 46 provide virtual lists of places to serve: ministries that feed the hungry, visit prisoners, build housing, provide clothing and shelter for «the poor wanderer», etc..

The waqfs were created for a great variety of services, such as the building and upkeep of water conduits, fountains, wells, roads, sidewalks, bridges, kitchens for the distribution of free meals, guest houses, homes for widows, schools, libraries, mosques, tekkes, cemeteries, open — air places for prayer, caravansaries to lodge full caravans of men and animals, clock - rooms for telling time, bakeries for distributing bread and cakes to the poor, dispensaries, hospitals, public baths, shaded land on the roadside.

We are not inheriting the earthly power or the worldly wealth, hut when Pentecostal and Catholic show up at city hall to make a plan to build affordable houses for the poor, we catch a glimpse of another, better kingdom.

The UK has had a poor record in building new low cost housing since the 1960s, and combined with a booming property market, many not eligible for the Right to Buy have found themselves completely unable to do so.

Also at 10:30 a.m., Albanese holds a press conference on building market rate housing on public land; market rate tenants to occupy upper floors; «poor floors» for everyone else, NYCHA Holmes Towers, 1780 First Ave., Manhattan.

The squeezed middle, the working poor (6.5 million in their households today) and the jobless are afflicted by pay freezes and pay cuts, energy bill hikes, accelerated private rent increases, a swelling housing benefit budget that subsidises rich landlords but not the tenants, waiting lists for a home swollen by the bedroom tax and only half the houses needed being built, nearly a million of the jobless sanctioned last year and deprived of all their unemployment benefit for 4 or 13 weeks for trivial infringements, the seriously disabled suffering big benefit cuts for not getting jobs they manifestly can't do, to name but some.

Despite the loss of a key housing program, the administration of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio will announce today that it built or preserved 21,963 units of housing in 2016 for poor and working - class New Yorkers, the most since 1989.

Also on the governor's to - do list: A $ 50 million state program aimed at helping non-profits build housing and provide services for the poor.

A proposal by de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle, emerging from a NYC Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.

Also, buildings would no longer be allowed to have a separate entrance for affordable housing tenants — the so - called «poor door.»

Instead, the tax benefits would only go to rental construction, and provisions that allow buildings to have a separate entrance for affordable housing tenants — the so - called «poor door» — would be eliminated.

• So the Tories wanted to hit the poorest people in order to attract votes, and refused to build houses for people lest they then voted Labour; and Nick Clegg doesn't understand why his party didn't get credit for being in the coalition.

A proposal by Mayor Bill de Blasio to rezone parts of the city to build more housing cleared its most important hurdle on Monday, emerging from a City Council meeting with enough revisions to satisfy major critics and city lawmakers who had opposed the plan for not doing enough to provide housing for the poorest New Yorkers.

Ukip sensed a chance at victory among the disaffected Labour voters in the seat, which in various guises has been Labour for the past 50 years, ever since housing estates were built to relocate thousands of poor residents from central Manchester back in the early 1960s.

A slew of community boards in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn have voted against the rezonings needed to build taller in their neighborhoods so as to accommodate greater private development and more low - cost housing, most arguing that the plan does not guarantee sufficient units or jobs for the poorest New Yorkers, and thus may accelerate gentrification.

The Late Prof. Wangari Maathai understood that for the young and old, rich and poor, green spaces offered a respite from the sprawling housing estates and commercial buildings that had chewed up former grassland and forest.

It questions permitting for a boarding house, make - shift driveways, deed restriction enforcement, lack of follow - up when building code violations are red - tagged, poor quality street work, vacant buildings, trash and more.

human encrouchment on beach nesting grounds probably is more of a threat to the birds then cats - it's just convenient to blame the poor cats than the humans who are itching to build their dream house on the beach or to drag their familites en masse to the dunes and sand for summer recreation.

The organization has certain members who act as antagonists in most of the series» installments (such as Dahlia in the first and prequel, Claudia in 3, Walter in The Room, and Judge Holloway in Homecoming), and operates the «Wish House» (also called «Hope House»), an orphanage for poor and homeless children built by a charity organization called the «Silent Hill Smile Support Society».

The project is a cooperative built on the «Munich Mix» model - a mix of subsidized rental for the poor, subsidized purchase for the middle class who can no longer afford housing in Munich, and market housing.

c. Need for thermic and hydric isolation in homes: they capacitated locals to build membranes with discarded tetrabrick; d. No interior heat and poor cooking techniques (fires inside the houses, which provoqued toxic smoque): they built and taught how to make an adobe (pressed mud dried to the sun) oven in one of the houses.

In a 2005 study, the National Disability Authority found housing had a «poor level of compliance» with Part M of the building regulations, which deals with access for people with disability.

It used to be taken for granted that government would build and own housing both to stimulate the market and to provide housing for the poor and the working class who could not afford market rents.

Small - Scale Turbines Inappropriate For Many Locations While Encraft's managing director did say that in some locations home wind turbines are still a good investment, in the majority of locations this isn't the case: «Sadly, an average semi-detached house, like the areas where most people live, where there are obstructions like trees and buildings, are poor locations.»

We pored over the moving stories one by one, meeting REALTORS ® who build and rehab houses for the poor; care for those in need; and work to revitalize neighborhoods, protect the environment, and raise funds for medical research.

Great place to live, but no good building site that is anywhere near a good commute, extremely high cost of housing ($ 500k average for a basic 50 year old tract home), no decent public transit, over-all poor education levels in the public schools.