Sentences with phrase «in housing subsidies»

A fourth had received more than $ 95,000 in housing subsidies for assignment, starting in 2007, to Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, Office of Science officials also found.

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The February federal budget deal, meanwhile, hikes outlays in both of the two categories of «discretionary» spending, defense and federal programs from foreign aid to housing subsidies, by an unprecedented 12 %, or $ 150 billion a year in 2018 and 2019.

Antos expects the replacement plan to also include individual insurance that has a form of Federal subsidies, as envisioned in House Speaker Paul Ryan's proposed plan to replace Obamacare.

On Monday, two powerful conservative leaders in the House declared the blueprint unacceptable because it relies on giving people refundable tax credits to purchase insurance — a policy mechanism that, in a very rough sense, resembles Obamacare's subsidies to buy mandated health coverage (and is therefore being slammed by conservatives as just another entitlement program).

The House is currently engaged in a lawsuit alleging that the Obama administration's decision to pay these subsidies was illegal because they weren't specifically appropriated by Congress.

Additionally, evidence suggests that the subsidies raise housing costs, thus dissipating their effectiveness in helping people buy their own homes.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

In a tirade, the Journal's editorial board claimed that Washington is «returning to old habits in new political clothes,» that the plan would «expand the subsidy racket» and that «many senators in both parties are in hock to the housing - industrial lobbying complex.&raquIn a tirade, the Journal's editorial board claimed that Washington is «returning to old habits in new political clothes,» that the plan would «expand the subsidy racket» and that «many senators in both parties are in hock to the housing - industrial lobbying complex.&raquin new political clothes,» that the plan would «expand the subsidy racket» and that «many senators in both parties are in hock to the housing - industrial lobbying complex.&raquin both parties are in hock to the housing - industrial lobbying complex.&raquin hock to the housing - industrial lobbying complex.»

This year, the oversight board proposed eliminating subsidies for public housing and nutritional assistance in schools in order to pay back Wall Street creditors.

Those subsidies are expiring in 2018, leaving many families to wonder if they will lose their housing, or see their monthly costs skyrocket.

My agency was launching the first housing program in the state for women and children infected with the HIV virus, and projected cuts in state housing subsidies would have reduced its potential size.

Like Spence he is skeptical that mixed - income projects will ever meet the needs of more than a tiny proportion of the poor, and he suggests that the best, though imperfect, policy might be a system of housing vouchers that disperses the poor by providing them with a subsidy with which to seek housing in the private market.

Since the election in 2010 the coalition government has placed a cap on the amount of benefits people can receive and introduced the Spare Room Subsidy that means people on housing benefit with more bedrooms than they needed had their benefits cut.

On the structural side, they advocate such things as paid parental leave, flextime in the workplace, an extended school day and year, housing subsidies, tougher divorce laws, and welfare benefits favoring two - parent families.

The federal government was the main source of subsidy in the «60s and «70s, offering for - profit developers below - market interest rates and tax incentives to build and maintain affordable housing.

They note, for example, that tax credits for homeowners totaled $ 93 billion in 2000, while subsidies for those with inadequate housing reached only $ 29 billion and were insufficient to meet needs.

Legislation that would enable adoptive families to appeal state provided subsidy amounts by their county Children and Youth Services agency was passed in the House by a unanimous vote on October 17th.

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«It's only products that have wheat and corn in them in the supermarket that get any subsidies,» said Dooley, a farm owner and longtime member of the House Agriculture Committee.

«In 2012, the government reformed the HRA subsidy system so councils keep all the rents they collect from their homes, and receipts from sales of houses or land, giving them the freedom to invest them in building new homes.&raquIn 2012, the government reformed the HRA subsidy system so councils keep all the rents they collect from their homes, and receipts from sales of houses or land, giving them the freedom to invest them in building new homes.&raquin building new homes.»

Some fair housing advocates in western New York are slamming the proposal by HUD Secretary Ben Carson is proposing that would raise the rent for people who receive federal housing subsidies.

In 2014, House Republicans sued, saying the subsidies were unconstitutional.

In February, IBTimes reported that a Cuomo donor at the center of the probe saw his real estate firm receive subsidies from the same state housing agency that gave bond work to Cuomo's financial industry donors.

We are instead pressing ahead unilaterally with terrible policies: draining the budgets of families and businesses with excessive green taxes; picking losers by giving the most generous subsidies to the most expensive sources of low carbon energy; and recreating the volatility of the housing market with an emissions trading scheme where the supply of allowances is fixed, so fluctuations in demand lead to wild swings in the price.

New big - ticket items include a $ 1.9 billion subsidy to make 10,000 units in the mayor's affordable - housing plan even cheaper, $ 300 million to renovate homeless shelters and $ 355 million for facade repairs at city public - housing developments.

Though shrinking federal subsidies have severely curtailed the city's ability to offer affordable housing in the past, city officials spoke hopefully about favorable leadership on federal and state levels that might help to restore some of that long - lost funding.

Such subsidies will only go towards inflating the housing bubble in the South even more, and consequently increase regional inequality in this country.

The Rent Stabilization Association — which represents 25,000 landlords — blasted the mayor for the campaign, saying he should spend the money to «feed the poor, house the homeless, and provide rent subsidies to those most in need.»

The appeal court added that since the House of Representatives or any chamber of the National Assembly lacked the power to conduct criminal investigation, its report «can not be used to prevent or shield any of the petroleum marketer and supply companies from being investigated by competent investigative authority upon a criminal complaint that it fraudulently received billions of naira as imported petroleum subsidy payments when it did not import or market the petroleum in Nigeria.»

Trump's funding cuts would cause an estimated 20 % reduction in the operating subsidies to the New York City Housing Authority.

Labour leader Ed Miliband will pledge to repeal the controversial housing benefit reform known as the spare room subsidy - or the «bedroom tax» - if his party win the next General Election in 2015.

The combined worry of cuts to housing benefit and the slashing of the affordable house building subsidy, coupled with the absence of a long term strategy, will be devastating for the housing aspirations of thousands of young people consigned to increasing costs and bringing up their future families in an insecure private rented sector.»

It estimated the city would need to issue an additional $ 4.2 billion in subsidies to meet its goal of creating 80,000 new units of affordable housing.

Medical Malpractice Lawsuit Limitation — Vote Passed (218 - 210, 6 Not Voting) The House passed a bill that would limit to $ 250,000 the non-economic damages that can be awarded in a medical malpractice lawsuit in which the plaintiff's health care was paid for in whole or in part via a federal program, subsidy or tax benefit, and would establish a statute of limitations for initiating such lawsuits of either three years following the plaintiff's injury, or one year after the plaintiff discovers such injury, whichever occurs first.

In response to a follow - up question from Gotham Gazette, Stringer's spokesperson said that the current city housing plan is not geared enough toward those in deeper poverty and with current subsidies favoring low - income households, those with extremely low - income or virtually no income face even more pressure, especially when the rezonings are taken into consideration, given that they can risk furthering the threats of displacemenIn response to a follow - up question from Gotham Gazette, Stringer's spokesperson said that the current city housing plan is not geared enough toward those in deeper poverty and with current subsidies favoring low - income households, those with extremely low - income or virtually no income face even more pressure, especially when the rezonings are taken into consideration, given that they can risk furthering the threats of displacemenin deeper poverty and with current subsidies favoring low - income households, those with extremely low - income or virtually no income face even more pressure, especially when the rezonings are taken into consideration, given that they can risk furthering the threats of displacement.

The mayor took a moment after an unrelated press conference in Brooklyn this morning to address the House GOP's plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with a new package of legislation that would proffer tax credits, cut subsidies and end the requirement that large employers offer their workers affordable insurance.

«Unless we have a real subsidy program that is fully funded and matched with some permanent housing solutions, we are going to see an increase in the shelter population,» Levin said.

In total, the latest round of arrests makes 39 people that the city has caught illegally collecting subsidies from the Section 8 housing program, according to the New York Post.

Oct. 17, 2013: As part of the fiscal 2014 continuing resolution that reopened the federal government, the House voted to require that accurate income verification systems be put in place before the law's exchange subsidies are dispersed.

He's the reason local officials are revamping their foreclosure auction procedures, but he still receives subsidies from the state for houses in poor shape.

What is needed is a much wider use of models already tried and tested, which «lock in» affordability, and even deliver new social housing without subsidy.

A former Chairman, House of Representatives Ad - hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, Mr. Farouk Lawan, on Tuesday appeared before a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Lugbe, as the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission reopened its case of alleged bribery.

Former Troy Housing Authority official Paul Moses was indicted on charges he fraudulently collected nearly $ 50,000 in public assistance and housing subsidies he wasn't entitled to, according to the state Inspector General's Housing Authority official Paul Moses was indicted on charges he fraudulently collected nearly $ 50,000 in public assistance and housing subsidies he wasn't entitled to, according to the state Inspector General's housing subsidies he wasn't entitled to, according to the state Inspector General's office.

The subsidies have been previously challenged in court by House Republicans, who argue the payments are not legal.

[73] A housing bill passed in 1946 increased Treasury subsidies for the construction of local authority housing in England and Wales.

Local Government: Cutting the spare room subsidy will help the disabled in overcrowded housing

THE DEAL: The deal funds the government through January 15, raises the debt limit until February 7, includes a provision in the deal that strengthens verification measures for people getting subsidies under Obamacare and sets up budget negotiations between the House and Senate for a long - term spending plan.

> Yesterday on Local Government: Cutting the spare room subsidy will help the disabled in overcrowded housing

The governor also did not deny that he was the «top Cuomo administration official» quoted in the Daily News questioning de Blasio's strategy as he pushed to renew his control of the city's schools and restructure and reauthorize a real estate tax subsidy to help him build more affordable housing.

The borough president also discussed the need to build more affordable and permanent supportive housing as a means to prevent homelessness, and threw his support behind Queens Assembly Member Andrew Hevesi's Home Stability Support plan, which would give rent subsidies to those in danger of losing their homes.