Sentences with phrase «get council housing»

It would ensure migrants had to pay to use the NHS and could not get council housing or defer appeals against deportation judgements if they were not entitled to be in the UK, he added.
Why does the single mother get the council house straightaway when the hard - working couple have been waiting for years?
If it's not British single mums having kids just to get a council house, it's a family of asylum seekers being housed in some million pound five bedroom property in London.
Working class families can't get council houses, the benefit cap comes in, they get forced to move out.
Sooner or later they will end up buying houses under help to buy — a scheme underwritten by indiginous tax payers that can't even get a council house.
«Ukip have a very simple message, which is if you're worried about your son's unemployment, if you're renting, if you can't get a council house, if your wages are stagnating, that the problem is immigration and the solution is we're going to pull out of Europe.

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Jim Cramer sat down with IBM CEO Ginni Rometty to get her take on the state of work and Monday's White House technology council meeting.
Council, Larry Summers is a White House insider, and, according to a Wall Street Journal source, «hellbent» on getting the job.
... while for many others, it's a trip to the council where they can get housing benefit at 18 or 19 — even if they're not actively seeking work.
Because governments and local councils wanted to make sure children got a decent start in life, so mothers were given priority for council housing.
But without a real commitment to build more council houses, the housing crisis and the challenges facing the poorest people in society are only going to get worse.
The designation by the US Interagency Council on Homelessness means the city has the services in place to quickly get long - term homeless veterans with disabilities into permanent housing.
For instance it proposes that councils should give those leaving the armed forces in terms of housing allocation and schemes for shared ownership to get on the housing ladder.
Ms. Glen told the Council's Committee on Housing that several independent studies, including those done by Columbia University and the Citizens Budget Commission, showed that mandating real estate interests receiving the tax deduction to pay union rates would result in 30 percent fewer affordable units getting built.
Fossella got his House and prior City Council seats thanks in part to his long alliance with former Borough President Guy Molinari.
Alicia Glen, Mayor Bill de Blasio's deputy mayor for housing and economic development, told the City Council today that obligating developers who receive the controversial 421a tax break to pay construction workers prevailing wages could result in 17,000 badly - needed below - market apartments not getting built — and argued that the demand for low - cost housing trumps the call for union jobs.
MANHATTAN — A housing hearing was packed inside city hall Tuesday as council members got another chance to question management at the New York City Housing Authousing hearing was packed inside city hall Tuesday as council members got another chance to question management at the New York City Housing AutHousing Authority.
I'll establish Homes for Londoners, a new in - house developer at City Hall, led by me, working with councils and private developers to lever in funding and get thousands of new affordable and market homes built on spare public land and brownfield.
Paul Cann, director of policy at Help the Aged, said: «Someone who claims pension credit over the phone will in future get council tax benefit and housing benefit as a matter of course, without the need to fill in any forms at all.
Hudson Square moved a step closer today to getting more new housing when two City Council committees approved a controversial proposal by the property arm of Trinity Church to rezone the Lower Manhattan neighborhood, the New York Observer reported.
Cortland Common Council meets tonight (Tuesday) to go over a proposal to require all new public housing be barrier free, and get an update on a plan to convert street lights to LEDs.
Hudson Square moved a step closer today to getting more new housing when two City Council committees approved a controversial proposal by the property...
Buffalo's Common Council is starting yet another look at the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority after the heat went out for tenants at the Frederick Douglass Towers and it took a long time to get it back on.
Speaking in Harlow, where Labour took control of the council in last week's local election, Miliband said: «The reality now for people aspiring to get on is that they feel they are running up against a brick wall in terms of unemployment and getting on the housing ladder.»
Six Welsh Councils, who are operating mortgage guarantee schemes for first time home buyers, have effectively pulled the plug on any future assistance leaving those trying to get onto the housing ladder high and dry, an Assembly Member has discovered.
«What we want to do is go to communities where there are sink estates... and agree with those councils, those local people and make sure tenants get good homes, make sure homeowners get rehoused in new houses, that's exactly what we want.»
«We've got over 250,000 more affordable homes - and here's a statistic he'll like: in the last Parliament we built more council houses than in 13 years of a Labour government,» he said.
When the Council finally approved the fee in May, state Sen. Simcha Felder got a bill passed in the upper house effectively preventing the fee, which he calls onerous to low - and middle - income New Yorkers.
The NYC Housing Authority is getting $ 3 billion to repair Hurricane Sandy damage, and two Council members want to track that money to make sure a chunk goes to jobs for NYCHA tenants.
Addressing major stakeholders in the state, including the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu; members of the National and State Assemblies; Council Chairmen and members of the State Executive Council; as well as Peoples Democratic Party chieftains at the Government House, the governor explained: «On Sunday, April 24, 2016, by 7 pm, the night before this carnage took place, I got security information from Uzo - Uwani Local Government Transition Chairman, Hon. Cornell Onwubuya that such an incident was likely to take place in the state.
Next year's reform of council housing finance means that local authorities could start building again, though more work is needed to get the most from this.
New labour can not create social justice through equal oppurtunity alone, they need to have policies that directly end poverty such as getting down the price of gas through state intervention, building council houses through state intervention.
The Manhattan Housing Court's advisory council, which reviews its judges after each four - year term, recently ruled that jurist Susan Avery should get the boot — as it catalogued years of complaints against her, sources said.
And on affordable housing, the Council will get the last word on elements of a policy central to the mayor's political identity.
The City Council has final say on the project, but Community Board 7 got to weigh in Thursday with a 42 - page description of its vision for Riverside Center, which would bring 2,500 new housing units to the Upper West Side.
Then director of The Metropolitan Council on Housing, he needed a way to get regular New Yorkers interested in the backroom dealing that he saw as having continually allowed the real estate industry power to weaken rent laws every time they were up for renewal.
The City Council approved the mayor's affordable housing zoning proposals Tuesday, but not without drama, as some protesters got kicked out of the Council chamber.
This just added insult to injury There is also the impact of cuts in housing benefit if you have a spare room in your house, taking in a lodger is not an option because you get penalised again because the lodger is counted as a non-dependant and punitive deductions are made from any HB or Council Tax rebate you may receive.
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — COR Development Co. got a green light from the Syracuse Common Council today to acquire 28 acres from the city to create a $ 350 million neighborhood of housing, retail and office buildings around the Inner Harbor.
NYCHA's inability to accurately and effectively keep out sex offenders must be investigated and addressed quickly, and I look forward to the hearing on this topic in order to get NYCHA's plan for removing them,» said Council Member Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing.
At least two candidates who ran against Johnson for speaker will also get plum positions: Sources say Robert Cornegy of Brooklyn will chair the council's Housing Committee, and Mark Levine of Manhattan will chair the Health Committee.
Embattled New York City Housing Authority head Shola Olatoye will get a grilling Tuesday from the City Council about her agency's failure to do lead testing and her lies about it.
«The rising cost of housing means that older tenants can not afford to escape rising housing costs, yet can not secure affordable housing elsewhere,» James wrote in the letter, which got supporting signatures from Councilman Mark Levine and Councilwoman Helen Rosenthal, as well as 19 other council members from around the city.
Amy Varghese, spokesperson for Council Speaker Mark - Viverito, said that the speaker encourages the community to get involved in the discussion of the city's housing plan.
He asked the question during a Tuesday meeting where Wauwatosa Common Council members got their first look at the $ 250 million plan to develop an 88 - acre property into housing, university research buildings and buildings for private research companies.
The stories we are getting are in the tens, not in the hundreds or thousands,» Philip Nelson, chief executive of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), told a House of Lords inquiry into the effects of Brexit on science on July 19.
In a press briefing yesterday, Cecilia Muñoz, head of the White House Domestic Policy Council, emphasized the role that STEM teachers play «in equipping our students with the knowledge they will need to get jobs in the high - growth fields that fund innovation.»
Just yesterday, The White House Council on Women and Girls held this event in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building to encourage more girls to get involved in science, engineering, technology and math.
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