Sentences with phrase «of accessible housing»

As part of the initiative, the institute has developed an online index that rates communities using a variety of factors, including the availability of accessible housing, public transportation, quality healthcare and good schools.
Century 21 is developing a Special Agent Learning Program to provide its agents with information and learning resources on the topic of accessible housing and universal design for people with disabilities.
With their five - year - old daughter Katie suffering from spinal muscular atrophy, a crippling neural muscular disease, the Lagoons plan to tap their new wealth to build a fully accessible house — and then to get into the business of accessible housing as either a developer or development partner.
«I spoke with the organization that is now Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, and they strongly encouraged me to become involved with their membership as there was such a need for real estate agents who understood the challenges of the accessible housing market,» Kerr says.
We condemn the severely disabled through acts not of commission but of omission: lack of accessible housing, accessible transportation, accessible streets and sidewalks, accessible education and employment opportunities, accessible churches.

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One reason for its popularity is the more accessible price point, due in large part to the overwhelming number of semi-detached houses in this community.
Records of corporate dialogues which track the historical progress of ICCR member corporate engagements are housed in our shareholder database accessible only to ICCR members and considered confidential.
Rev. Bernard Sponge of the Interchurch Media Program, who shares my professional interests, was particularly informative and gave me entre to all the relevant and generous people at Khotso House, including, of course, the heroically accessible then Executive Secretary Bishop Tutu.
As representatives of the minimalists I will consider Edward Schillebeeckx's Jesus: An Experiment in Christology (Crossroad Publishing Co., 1979), a long and weighty study of current New Testament scholarship, and Thomas Sheehan's The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity (Random House, 1986), a more accessible argument based on the results of Schillebeeckx and a number of others.
Well, on the trip to my sister's house I had taken my ID out of my wallet and placed it in the front zipper of my backpack so that it was easily accessible.
They need to be in every bathroom of the house so that the child can use any bathroom when they need to and they need to be accessible as well.
Portage Park offers something for every kind of play — six tennis courts, a new soft - surface ADA accessible playground, a slab for in - line skating, a new dog friends area, a bike path, a nature walk, five baseball fields, two combination football / soccer fields and two fieldhouses, one housing a gymnasium and the other a cultural arts building.
The WebMD Health eHome includes a virtual house accessible from the main page of the Health eHome website.
LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon will be recognized for its accessible trails expertise by the office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew A. Beaton on Monday, May 2, at the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
Mass Audubon will be recognized for its accessible trails expertise by the office of Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Matthew A. Beaton on Monday, May 2, at the Massachusetts State House in Boston.
At the same time, we need greater investment in social housing and decisive action to make the private rented sector more accessible and affordable, along with radical solutions to tackle the severe shortage of truly affordable homes.
«Similarly, residential park homes offer a unique and affordable housing choice for thousands of people across the UK and working with local authorities we can help make this a more accessible housing option / lifestyle.»
The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building or preserving more than 100,000 units of affordable housing — enough to house every resident in the City of Buffalo.
The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building and preserving more than 100,000 units of affordable housing and 6,000 of supportive housing.
The plan makes housing accessible and combats homelessness by building and preserving 112,000 units of affordable housing, including 6,000 of supportive housing.
The government accuses Glenwood of being in violation of Fair Housing Act accessibility requirements and «unlawfully discriminated against persons with disabilities... by failing to design and construct Liberty Plaza so as to be accessible to persons with disabilities.»
«The lack of affordable, accessible housing is a significant barrier to independence for people with disabilities and seniors.
The Flagbearer of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, has said that although the designers of the seat of government, the Flagstaff House, failed to make the edifice accessible to physically challenged persons, he would occupy the facility as Ghana's first President in a wheelchair.
Without a national planning policy that specifically considers accessible and adaptable housing for disabled people, local authorities have no obligation to make sure they're delivering the right kind of housing and find it challenging to require developers to build to a higher standard.
The Countryside Alliance believes a vibrant countryside needs five key changes and calls on the Government to: SERVICES — Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport and broadband network HOUSING — Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 HOUSING — Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 housing EDUCATION — Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING — Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS — Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits For more information or to arrange interviews please call the Countryside Alliance press office on 0207 840 9220 or 07500 834 163
HOUSING: Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION: Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING: Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport HOUSING: Promote local solutions to the lack of affordable rural housing EDUCATION: Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING: Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport housing EDUCATION: Enable all children to gain a practical understanding of the countryside FARMING: Support British farmers and producers COUNTRY PURSUITS: Repeal the Hunting Act and champion country pursuits SERVICES: Ensure an accessible and reliable rural transport network
And it is an act of class war to assault the social architecture — the welfare state, the NHS, the principle of equality on education, accessible justice, decent housing — that our forebears fought for, built and that we, the people of this country, have paid for through our taxes and have kept dear for generations because we know that these are what underpin a fairer, better Britain.
Also mounting good campaigns are talented candidates with good ideas like Brian Kavanagh, former chief - of - staff for Council Member Gale Brewer, and aide to former Mayors Ed Koch & David Dinkins; Chris Papajohn who served on the American Civil Liberties Union's committee on disability law when they discovered that U.S. Post Offices are often not accessible to people with disabilities; Gur Tsabar, an aide to Speaker Gifford Miller, is articulate and well - informed on many issues, and authored an editorial in the April 14 Town & Village newspaper about unjust redlining of disabled New Yorkers due to budget concerns; Darren Bloch, a former Con Ed spokesperson who is a member of Community Board 6, is well - versed on housing and homelessness issues.
In addition to supporting the legislation in the current Council session for accessible ferries and taxis, Gerson introduced a housing preservation measure for Section 8 and public housing tenants so that they can have the right of first refusal to buy their apartments if they go on the market, and is gearing up to introduce «grab - bar» legislation so that seniors and people with disabilities can have accessible, safe bathrooms in their residences.
Columbia plans to build a new $ 100 million 47,700 - square - foot field house at 218th Street and Broadway and has promised a host of community amenities in exchange, including a $ 3 million investment in the sports fields, which would be more readily accessible for community use and a new boathouse marsh that would be «gifted» to the city for public use.
Orians and Heerwagen found that two thirds of the paintings included a refuge clearly accessible to the viewer — a church or a house, often with a light in the window.
John Russell of Chadwyck - Healey, the publishers of the CD - ROMs along with HMSO, says: «It will make what's been said in the House far more accessible.
one of the korean brands that has to be easily accessible in our country has got to be Etude House.
In 2005, she and her mother Tina Knowles (who designed all of Destiny's Child's stage costumes) launched House of Déreon, an accessible fashion label named for Knowles» grandmother who made her living as a seamstress.
In a Valley of Violence may not be West's best film (that honor would still go to The House of the Devil), but it is a noble effort into non-genre territory that is probably his most accessible film to date.
But it means that the economic and financial measures must be to correct the inequalities that create impoverishement which result in lack of education, decent and dignified jobs, food, water, accessible health and housing for all, transportation, recreation, etc..
This means that it takes all the intuitive things that top experts do — much of which has not been codified and resides in the heads of a limited few — and boils it down first into patterns and then ultimately rules housed in innovations that are relatively affordable and accessible.
Making Meals and Cleaning House both include video modeling of important life skills in an accessible, clear format.
Of the books in the series, this pack provides lessons in the most fundamental of adult living skills with the least difficult vocabulary and concepts.This transition to adult life program provides in depth lessons on the following life skills: Dress for Success Staying Healthy Cleaning House Doing the Laundry Kitchen Basics Nutrition Grocery Shopping Making Meals Transportation Paying Bills Making Meals and Cleaning House both include video modeling of important life skills in an accessible, clear formaOf the books in the series, this pack provides lessons in the most fundamental of adult living skills with the least difficult vocabulary and concepts.This transition to adult life program provides in depth lessons on the following life skills: Dress for Success Staying Healthy Cleaning House Doing the Laundry Kitchen Basics Nutrition Grocery Shopping Making Meals Transportation Paying Bills Making Meals and Cleaning House both include video modeling of important life skills in an accessible, clear formaof adult living skills with the least difficult vocabulary and concepts.This transition to adult life program provides in depth lessons on the following life skills: Dress for Success Staying Healthy Cleaning House Doing the Laundry Kitchen Basics Nutrition Grocery Shopping Making Meals Transportation Paying Bills Making Meals and Cleaning House both include video modeling of important life skills in an accessible, clear formaof important life skills in an accessible, clear format.
Richard Rothstein and others have documented how schools on their own might be able to narrow the achievement gap, but without adequate affordable housing, accessible health care, and the availability of good jobs, it will be impossible to eliminate it.
The synthesis of research resulted in an integrated approach to preparing mathematics teachers using four technology - based resources housed at the Center for Algebraic Thinking website (Resources are freely accessible at http://www.algebraicthinking.org):
Alvin Chang (Vox): An honorary education writer by virtue of his frequent coverage of issues affecting education, Chang has produced a series of helpful, accessible stories on issues like housing segregation, affirmative action, and the impact of school attendance zones on school integregation that have been a great pleasure to see in recent weeks and months.
And as I mentioned in a previous post, trade publishers such as Penguin Random House and HarperCollins are joining the effort to make ebooks used in the school market accessible, which points to larger shares of their general lists being certified accessible.
The home inspection is a visual evaluation of all the readily accessible systems in the house including the foundation, siding, windows, doors, roof, attic, heating / cooling systems, plumbing, electrical, and the interior of the home.
Created in 1944 under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act (also known as the GI Bill of Rights), the VA loan helps make housing accessible for veterans and their families.
FHA guidelinesare inclusive and accessible to many who can not qualify for conventional home loans; as the FHA marketet share of purchase mortgage loans and refinance mortgages grows, its policy decisions will have increasing influence over housing markets and mortgage lenders.
As part of the New Deal, the federal government created Fannie (followed by Freddie in 1970) to stimulate the housing market by making mortgages more accessible to lower - income borrowers who might not qualify otherwise.
If I stop the SIP right now, but do nt redeem my already purchased units, (if I keep the purchased units as it is), will the online purchase portal of the respective fund house remain accessible for me for lifetime?
Grant funds available through the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) allow us to keep our services affordable and accessible.
This initiative helps seniors to age at home which is exactly what the majority of seniors prefer but with many seniors still living in the own homes, this program will need to be more fulsome and last longer than two years to offset the impending lack of affordable and accessible housing for this demographic.
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