A new investigation reveals that career criminals are not being banned
from public housing in New York City, possibly causing a spike in crime at developments across the five boroughs.
Evicting from public housing not only individuals accused (not convicted) of drug - dealing and use but also families is becoming accepted policy.
The New York Housing Conference Inc., a real estate - backed nonprofit group, has expressed political support for U.S. Rep. Joseph Crowley's housing proposals that pivot the Government's commitment
away from public housing and that offers a tax credit solution to tenants facing a rent burden.
«Only in America can a poor
kid from public housing have the privilege and honor to be the commencement speaker at the largest and most innovative university in the country.»
Departure of these
people from public housing a accommodations or from «Section Vlll» apartments (the Nixon era version of federally subsidized housing) has freed up space there even poorer families.
From backyard swimming pools installed gratis as graft, to quarters
skimmed from public housing washing machines, the Asselins had it all.
«The Mayor is working hard to organize mayors and progressive leaders against Trump Administration efforts to decrease health care access,
divest from public housing, and make our tax policy even less fair for working people,» mayoral spokeswoman Freddi Goldstein said.
Referencing the
supporters from public housing developments in attendance, Mendez added, «She was content being district leader and never seeking higher office, except all of these people here — not once, not twice but multiple times — asked Alice to run.»
Ms. Olatoye has recently faced hostile
receptions from public housing tenants, many angry about misconduct by their neighbors, long waits for repairs and poor clean - up and ground maintenance.
The city wants to redraw the zones in a way that would send kids from this predominantly white school to a nearby school where enrollment is over 90 percent black and Hispanic and which draws many of its
students from a public housing project.
However, research published in 2006 on families in five major U.S. cities who used the federal Moving to Opportunity housing voucher program to
transplant from public housing to more affluent neighborhoods concluded that living among the more affluent had no significant impact on student test scores, behavioral incidents or student engagement.
Called Section 8, this aid was created by Congress in 1974, and is
different from public housing in that the latter restricts participants to only certain locations and buildings — the infamous Robert Taylor Homes in Chicago is an example of public housing.
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He proceeded to inform thepress that poor folks
evicted from public housing would be allowed to move back into the projects, even going so far as to stage a ribbon - cutting ceremony.
«The notion of diverting money
away from public housing and toward a political slush fund is morally sickening,» Torres said.
This took
me from public housing projects to the buildings of Wall Street.
His back catalogue ranges over most building types and clients - from royalty to pop stars, from banks to charities, from industry to leisure, and
from public housing (and houses!)