Sentences with phrase «end housing inequalities»

And he even moved his family into a run - down building in Chicago for six months when he was working to end housing inequalities.

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«I'm quietly confident, in a non-complacent way, that the people who are flirting with the Greens, a large number of them will end up voting Labour - for positive reasons, because we've got radical policies on the environment, we've got very good policies on addressing inequality, the housing crisis, the NHS.

«The mayor is working to help end income inequality in NYC with initiatives that balance the playing field for all New Yorkers, such as free, universal pre-K, paid sick leave, and affordable housing,» she said in an email.

Neil Carmichael, chair of the House of Commons education committee, has written to childcare minister Sam Gyimah to outline «regrets» the department is not yet ready to publish the findings of its preliminary consultation on the formula — which aims to end historical inequalities in school funding.

And through conversations with others in the growing climate justice movement, I began to see all kinds of ways that climate change could become a catalyzing force for positive change — how it could be the best argument progressives have ever had to demand the rebuilding and reviving of local economies; to reclaim our democracies from corrosive corporate influence; to block harmful new free trade deals and rewrite old ones; to invest in starving public infrastructure like mass transit and affordable housing; to take back ownership of essential services like energy and water; to remake our sick agricultural system into something much healthier; to open borders to migrants whose displacement is linked to climate impacts; to finally respect Indigenous land rights — all of which would help to end grotesque levels of inequality within our nations and between them.