Sentences with phrase «housing displaced people»

Hacking Better Shelter is series of IKEA - style hacks designed to expand the use of Better Shelter, a leading emergency shelter system housing displaced people around the world.

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For years, home - sharing giant Airbnb has had a quiet side project involving asking its hosts to offer temporary housing — for free — to displaced people, citizens forced out of their homes due to natural disasters and other emergencies or, increasingly, the global refugee crisis.

Giustra's current priority is to provide housing for displaced people who are essentially stuck in Greece.

Additionally, nearly 56,000 people were displaced, forced to flee into the forests, as mobs burned down more than 5,600 houses, 300 churches, and other Christian institutions.

The House of Representatives has queried the National Emergency Food Programme over its rejection of an offer by the World Food Programme (WFP) to donate rice to internally displaced persons but proceeded to use public funds to purchase 5000 metric tonnes of rice for the same purpose and handed over them to WFP.

The Interstate 81 project could temporarily displace 600 to 1,000 people living in public housing near the highway.

The mayor said he sympathizes with residents» concerns about gentrification, development and displacement but echoed his longstanding argument that there are two options: either «do nothing» and watch rents increase and people get displaced or «do something» and at least create new affordable units when developers build luxury housing.

It was announced that the author promised to use part of the proceeds from the presentation to buy books for Internally Displaced Persons currently being housed in IDP camps.

• Full deduction for disaster clean up expense • Relaxed retirement plan distribution rules — elimination of the 10 percent penalty tax that would otherwise apply on an early withdrawal from a retirement plan and permit individuals to withdraw up to $ 100,000 without penalty to cover storm - related expenses • Housing Exemptions for displaced individuals — would provide additional tax exemptions for individuals who provide free shelter for at least 60 days to anyone displaced by the storm ($ 500 exemption per person, maximum of four exemptions for the year) • Worker retention credit — would extend tax credits to business owners who continued paying wages while their businesses were forced to close.

But in this case, he's working for Airbnb whose business is built on taking away affordable housing and displacing tenants, especially for low - income people of color,» Connell said.

Council President Darius Pridgen discussed some potential ideas such as selling land where people don't live, bringing on units without displacing or taking away opportunities from those with low - income, and he even proposed the idea of community centers doubling as housing.

Although urban renewal has helped rehabilitate some communities, it has also left many people displaced or forced them to move into public housing projects, creating race and class divides that harm the city as a whole.

Most of the town was built after World War II to house people displaced by bombing in London.

More than 6,000 people were killed and millions more were displaced, and authorities are still struggling with clearing away debris, rebuilding houses and counting the dead.

Nochimson's article details the origins of this «eternal studio in the Eternal City» (it was movie - mad Mussolini's baby), its brief role as housing for people displaced by World War II, and its reemergence as a major site of spectacular movie projects, not only for Federico Fellini (whose La dolce vita, Amarcord, and And the Ship Sails On are just three of the many projects he filmed partly there) but also for Jean Renoir (The Golden Coach) and Bernardo Bertolucci (The Last Emperor).

On April 15, 1945, British forces liberated Bergen - Belsen and «British occupation authorities established a displaced persons camp that housed more than 12,000 survivors.»

Shortly before the Second World War ended and the horrors of the Holocaust slowly came to a close, Jews from all over Europe were housed in «displaced persons» camps.

Thanks to an emergency relief grant of nearly $ 50,000, the BC SPCA was able to set up temporary animal housing centres in Prince George and Kamloops, coming to the aid of thousands of people and pets who had been displaced by the fires and were unable to find pet friendly accommodations.

Lost and found pet shelters, in which displaced animals are housed in what becomes a reunion center for people and their animals.

Flooding hit two villages in Central and West Lombok regencies, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) after a full day of heavy rain of Sunday, inundating at least 300 houses and displacing 500 people.

The Ponorogo Disaster Mitigation Agency (BPBD) said 26 or 27 people were reported missing while 23 houses were buried in the incident, displacing about 300 residents.

Nearly 60 million people worldwide have been displaced due to conflict, war, and human rights violations, yet there is an enormous funding gap for humanitarian agencies seeking to provide food, housing, medical care, and other assistance.

It was built on the orders of then Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to house the people displaced by the 1988 Armenian earthquake (also known as Spitak earthquake).

Speaking of art schools and displaced people, the Pratt Institute is evicting its 79 year old head engineer from campus housing, where he has lived since 1967.

They won a grant from the Lemelson - MIT Program to develop a lightweight, portable disaster relief shelter, designed to be complete with a water purification system and a renewable energy source to power an LED light, which could be used after disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, or tornadoes to house people who have been displaced.

The June — July 2016 flooding in China that killed more than 833 people, destroyed upwards of 400,000 houses and displaced more than 6 million people was made significantly worse by human - caused climate change.

The Pallet House is an inexpensive, efficient and easily realizable solution to the problem of housing people displaced by natural disaster, plagues, famine, political and economic strife or war.

In New York, for example, many practitioners said they'd work without compensation to help displaced persons find new housing and displaced companies new office space.

There's nothing wrong with making a profit, but housing providers need to recognize that downtown revitalization displaces people.

The National Association of Realtors says its members in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas are «combing their records and contacts to locate every available bit of spare inventory that could be used to house people displaced by the storm and its aftermath.

The versatile structures can be built on a grand scale or made rather small as they have been used as low - cost housing for refugees and displaced people in the developing world, as well as schools, gyms and sports stadiums.