Sentences with phrase «income public housing tenants»

Meanwhile, Gov. Andrew Cuomo played political hardball of his own at the Bronx's Forest Houses, where he positioned himself as the real protector of low - income public housing tenants.

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There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

«Our private capital slum clearance requires public housing to take care of displaced tenants of the lowest incomes,» Mr. Dagen Bloom quotes Moses as saying.

Rep. Brian Higgins encountered anger and frustration from some Commodore Perry public housing tenants when he held a press conference there to tout his idea of renovating rows of empty, rundown apartments into low - and moderate - income units — and perhaps some market - rate housing, as well.

The LibDems and Tories should promise low - income, public sector tenants that they will bring back a programme of heavily discounted council house sales.

Another big issue for public housing tenants throughout the Lower East Side is NextGeneration NYCHA, which calls for building new mixed - income housing alongside existing residential towers.

But he kept a «worst landlords» watch list while he was the city's public advocate, and a central promise of his mayoral campaign was to protect low - income tenants and make housing more affordable for the poor and working class.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson wants Americans living on housing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on tHousing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson wants Americans living on housing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on thousing assistance to put more of their income toward rent and he wants to give public housing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on thousing authorities the ability to impose work requirements on tenants.

In more than a dozen interviews with The Daily Orange, public housing tenants living by I - 81 in the low - income, majority black East Adams Street neighborhood expressed increasing frustration and anxiety with what several called an unnecessary delay of the interstate's replacement project.

Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.

The plan calls for independent oversight of the city's Housing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violHousing Preservation Department; establishing a public education campaign to inform tenants about HPD's role; empowering a new body or building inspectors to collect fines against landlords; having HPD make repairs not completed by the landlord in the specified amount of time and then billing the landlord; making inspectors carry citations in multiple languages and send out reports in multiple languages; forcing landlords to make repairs within 24 hours of emergency violations; establishing an East Harlem HPD oversight team as a pilot for other areas with at - risk low - income housing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violhousing; providing inspections 24 - hours - a-day, 7 - days - a-week; and improving HPD's follow - up on violations.

«The city has been working on a plan to not only do that, but to increase employment opportunities for low - income residents and public housing tenants.»

Usually, the tenant pays up to 30 percent of their income in rent and a local public housing agency makes up the difference.

Service (s) include: legal advice and representation to low income residents of Philadelphia in civil cases involving bankruptcy, child custody, credit card debt, elderly issues, employment, landlord - tenant, mortgages, public housing / section 8, and welfare, to name a few.

where the premises are subsidized public housing and the tenant's income levels have become too high, or the public funding has been cancelled, or the tenant has not reported income and is therefore not eligible for the subsidy program.

The monthly clinic began in 2009 in response to the critical, unmet legal needs many low - income families in the area face, including housing and landlord tenant issues, public benefits, child support, and expungement of criminal records.

If you are a tenant in subsidized or public housing and provide false information on your income or the incomes of those living with you, or changes to those incomes as per Section 60;