Sentences with phrase «for urban residents»

Car insurance is not just for urban residents, however.

Governor Walker and County Chief Executive Abele could design a regional public transportation system that would make suburban jobs accessible for urban residents.

That means the average rural consumer ends up subsidizing power for urban residents by 240 to 510 rupees ($ 4 to $ 8) per year, according to a study in Karnataka state done by Rahul Tongia, a fellow at Brookings India.

A 1 - mile walking distance for urban and rural residents or a 10 - minute drive for urban residents and 20 - minute drive for rural residents were considered reasonable availability to a WIC retailer.

Furthermore, in many developing countries price regulation in favor of providing cheap food for urban residents has been a devastating disincentive for food producers to increase their production.

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Preserving affordable housing — and easing the displacement of existing residents that often follows these urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the urban economic comeback stories — is the current problem that New York University's Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the Urban Policy has been tracking throughout the year.

So many bodies are brought in that the morgue workers struggle to identify and bury the dead fast enough to make space for the next batch that arrives with grim regularity, as the city's residents clear up after nine months of urban warfare.

Residents in Seattle, on average, are spending 40.2 percent of pay for a three - bedroom rental, according to ATTOM Data Solutions research based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Housing and Urban Development data.

Currently, there are only 44 resale homes available for sale in an urban center of more than 80,000 residents, with most priced above $ 1 million.

A sense of community has been restored when residents of urban neighborhoods have been given responsibility for improving their own lives and a voice about decisions in their communities.

(5) Inner - city urban ministry either as a one - year resident or one day a week for thirty weeks to mingle with the people wherever they are, to engage the power structure of the community, to explore the economic and political strategies of community planning, to discover the potentialities for a ministry to total needs of persons who are deprived or in stress.

Queensland, meanwhile, takes the national preference for «plain packaging» to another level, with residents in both rural and urban areas being more than twice as likely to opt for supermarket brands as they are for Bega.

The village has 1.6 acres of park space for every 10,000 residents — far short of the National Recreation and Park Association's recommendation of 10 acres per 10,000 people, John Mac Manus, of urban planning contractor Altamanu, told the board.

A new report published by the Center for an Urban Future finds that the record increase in tourism to New York City over the past two decades has spurred thousands of jobs in Queens and benefited thousands of additional residents who work in tourism More...

This will include working to revitalize the Hunts Point Terminal Produce Market in the Bronx, which supplies a large portion of the produce for New York City's and the region's food consumption, and creating a «Share NY Food» Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program that develops partnerships with farmers and residents to expand access and resources and make fresh food available to consumers in urban areas.

As a young man, Jiménez found kindred spirits in like - minded men and women who were committed to the causes of liberation and independence for Puerto Rico — and sought freedom from what they perceived to be the racist and discriminatory treatment minority residents faced in major urban centers such as Chicago and New York.

«MAP's Farmhouse does just that, creating an urban food hub that providing new markets for small farmers and greater access to affordable, nutritious food for residents.»

A variety of affordable transit options such as public transit, taxis, car shares, cycling, and safe pedestrian pathways is critical for residents of Erie County to engage in a wide variety of community activities across urban, suburban, and rural settings.

Its mission: to provide safe, affordable housing for local residents, and in the process fight back against the urban decay.

I can't speak for the other elected officials, [but] if [Urban American] wants us to work with them to build trust with the residents, [the lawsuit] does not help,» she said.

Brooklyn, NY — October 6, 2016 — Today, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) joined residents and development partners MDG Design + Construction (MDG), Hudson Valley Property Group (HVPG), and Marien - Heim Tower Associates LP to celebrate the renovation of Marien - Heim Tower, a 181 - unit affordable development for low - income seniors aged 62 and older.

The Center for Urban Community Services has opened a «Single Stop» office on Southern Boulevard, to help Bronx residents determine whether they qualify for different types of public assistance.

But while the strategy is getting a warm welcome in other communities, back home in Albany concerns are building about the urban residents it leaves behind, and economic development officials maintain that its very success so far is a compelling reason for more state investment.

The local election results are a consequence of the Government's disregard for the mounting pressure faced by councils «and the pain it is causing their residents», according to Steve Houghton, a Labour councillor and chair of SIGOMA, the collective voice of urban areas representing many of the large towns and cities in the Northern, Midland and South Coast regions of England.

It's the urban core of a largely rural county whose 160,000 residents voted twice for Barack Obama but swung to Trump in 2016.

A spokesman for Urban American Management said the company was trying to work with residents.

Residents have found an array of uses for it, from gardening and education to revitalization of neglected urban landmarks.

The Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, or SPURA, consists of five undeveloped lots just south of Delancey Street that have sat vacant for more than 40 years after the city razed the site's former tenement buildings and displaced thousands of residents.

In a typical urban area with a high level of background air pollution — for example, around 15 micrograms of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) per cubic metre, or a nitrogen dioxide concentration around 33 micrograms per cubic metre — an extra 300 trees per square kilometre was associated with around 50 fewer emergency asthma cases per 100,000 residents over the 15 year study period.

The study's senior author, Charles C. Branas, PhD, professor of Epidemiology and director of the Urban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residUrban Health Lab at Penn, observes, «This research on greening urban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban lots provides an important scientific impetus for urban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residurban planners and city officials to take relatively low - cost steps toward improving health for their residents.

The report also recommends tax incentives to encourage more residents to purchase cleaner vehicles and possibly even implementing a Stockholm - like congestion pricing system for the city's urban core.

Past research has shown that alcohol outlets such as liquor or corner stores may promote nuisance activities like robberies, drug use, or other crimes in urban communities, rendering them unsafe for residents to walk by or visit.

The USDA researchers used a different metric for urban areas, where residents may be more reliant on walking and public transit.

This dashing eagle is a resident of the Philippines, but the forests it lives in are being cleared for timber, farming, and urban development.

Such an expansion would particularly benefit residents of medically underserved urban and rural communities who otherwise lack ready access to primary care services, especially adults with serious and chronic health conditions that can be cared for in primary care settings, women of childbearing age, children and the low - income elderly.

THE NEXT WEB - Oct 27 — China's national policies, economic reform, and urban migration have created challenges for the country's one billion residents when it comes to relationships.

In the following year, her projects included Rob Cohen's The Fast and the Furious, an urban adrenaline extravaganza in which she played the tough girlfriend of a gang leader alongside Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, and Jordanna Brewster, and 3 A.M., a made - for - cable drama which cast her as a taxi driver and was screened at the Sundance Festival.Striving to maintain the balance between sexy and tough, Rodriguez would take on zombies in Resident Evil (2002) before hitting the waves in Blue Crush.

Opening in September: Kirsten Dunst and Isla Fisher take a turn in the comic bridesmaid well in «Bachelorette» (Friday); Bradley Cooper is an author whose stolen work becomes a hit in «The Words» (Friday), a thriller co-starring Jeremy Irons and Dennis Quaid (see story on Page 17); Pixar adds another dimension to one of its most popular films in «Finding Nemo 3 - D» (Sept. 14); Milla Jovovich returns for one more zombie slaughter in «Resident Evil: Retribution» (Sept. 14); Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Peña are Los Angeles cops in «End of Watch» (Sept. 21), which aims for a realistic look at inner - city law enforcement; Elizabeth Shue and Jennifer Lawrence are mother and daughter, discovering a horror - tinged secret in «House at the End of the Street» (Sept. 21); Karl Urban plays «Dredd» (Sept. 21), a helmeted avenger who cleans up the futuristic Mega City as its judge, jury and (wait for it...) executioner; In the animated «Hotel Transylvania,» Dracula (voiced by Adam Sandler) struggles to cope with his daughter's new non-vampire love interest (Sept. 28).

Main Street (Unrated) Urban revival drama revolving around several residents of Durham, North Carolina whose lives are changed by the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Colin Firth) with a controversial plan for saving their decaying hometown.

In Ghana, Acqua for Life expanded from rural communities into urban areas in 2013, installing mechanized boreholes to provide water to residents of the Aboabo slum, in Ghana's second biggest city of Kumasi.

He began working for the Philadelphia schools as a resident from the Broad Foundation's Residency in Urban Education.

The Los Angeles Urban Teacher Residency Program (LAUTR - TI) also recruits, selects, and trains teacher residents who are going to be a stand for equity in their classrooms.

In the past four years, 130 residents from the Urban Teacher Center have signed up for the four - year commitment to city schools, which includes one year of a residency and three years of teaching.

Through ongoing coaching, participating in professional learning communities that deepen and expand their instructional tool kits, and in the completion of their Master's in Urban Education through Park University, the Resident Graduates will leave the three - year commitment as highly effective teachers that are making transformative gains for their students.

Community groups will include Urban Tilth, an organization that hires and trains West County residents to build community gardens «to develop the capacity to produce 5 percent of our own food supply,» and Bright Futures, a nonprofit growth and development center for school children.

Not surprisingly, support for school choice programs is often twice as high among urban residents as it is among suburban ones.

Liza came to Learning Heroes from Urban Teachers, where she worked as a resident teacher for 4th and 5th grade students in the District of Columbia.

[7] The significant, yet small, distance to other cities allows for many prospective residents to view Madison as a «safe haven» from the corporate / urban world, if they choose to work in one of these nearby cities.

Buying policies in urban and suburban environments has become tough for some busy residents, some of whom would rather go to the dentist than sit around poring over the details of a multi-page policy questionnaire.

Howard Gleckman, a resident fellow at the Urban Institute, is author of «Caring For Our Parents» and a frequent writer and speaker on long - term care issues.