Sentences with phrase «government housing in our neighborhoods»

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New York, NY: A new report released today by the NYU Furman Center details strategies used by local governments to address rising housing costs and displacement of low - income households in gentrifying neighborhoods.

«The aim of the house party series is to get to know all the wonderful folks that make up this district in its many neighborhoods, to get neighbors to meet each other to share food and laughs, and to share my campaign's message that whether it is addressing climate change, fixing our broken government and economy — together we can get it done,» Platts said.

«Starting with the background of the blighted Hell's Kitchen neighborhood and the building's initial commercial failure in the mid-1970s, the story recounts how - in a moment of bold inspiration or maybe desperation - the buildings were're - purposed» as subsidized housing for people who worked in the performing arts, becoming one of the first intentional, government supported, affordable housing for artist residences.

Nearly two decades later, I'm still chastened by the book's central lesson: A government policy developed by mostly benevolent leaders hoping to improve the lives of the disadvantaged — in this case, by razing old, low - income, ostensibly decaying neighborhoods in favor of gigantic public - housing skyscrapers — did incalculable harm to those it was designed to help.

This agency dedicated to one of life's great pleasures is housed in a nondescript ten - story building on Madrid's Calle Capitán Haya, hidden in a leafy neighborhood with far more impressive government ministries and foreign embassies.

For over eighty years, this government housing agency has been insuring mortgage programs for new home buyers, consumers in equity challenged neighborhoods and low income households.

The neighborhood, a tangle of narrow streets, centuries - old houses and neo-colonial government buildings, was designated a UnescoWorld Heritage site in 1997 and is now a trendy arts district with galleries, coffeehouses, street musicians and some of the city's most stylish restaurants and boutique hotels.

At this forum at NAR's 2010 Annual Conference & Expo, attendees learned the roles REALTORS ® can play in helping communities purchase / sell foreclosed properties, and discussed the practical skills and tools needed to help local government and nonprofit housing providers market foreclosed properties and their neighborhoods.

In an effort to address both of these challenges, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood.

The concept for the MHI Urban Design Demonstration Project called for MHI, the national trade association for the manufactured housing industry, to work closely with local government officials, neighborhood groups, and residential developers in bringing this new resource to urban areas, which are suffering from an unprecedented housing affordability crisis.

In an experiment that started in the 1990s, the federal government offered thousands of low - income women living in public housing in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Boston an opportunity to move to a more affluent neighborhood and see if it improved their healtIn an experiment that started in the 1990s, the federal government offered thousands of low - income women living in public housing in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Boston an opportunity to move to a more affluent neighborhood and see if it improved their healtin the 1990s, the federal government offered thousands of low - income women living in public housing in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Boston an opportunity to move to a more affluent neighborhood and see if it improved their healtin public housing in Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Boston an opportunity to move to a more affluent neighborhood and see if it improved their healtin Los Angeles, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Boston an opportunity to move to a more affluent neighborhood and see if it improved their health.

In an effort to address both a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood in AshevillIn an effort to address both a deterioration of once - grand historic neighborhoods and a lack of affordable housing, a broad coalition of citizens, local government, and housing groups worked together to bring new life and new homeowners to the tarnished, century - old Head of Montford neighborhood in Ashevillin Asheville.