Sentences with phrase «of council houses for»

In Britain, Labour and Conservative governments built millions of council houses for all who needed them.

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Ned Price, spokesman for the White House's National Security Council, denied that US policy on Syria was a part of the Iran nuclear talks.

Pilots in Ireland, Spain, Germany, Sweden and Portugal, as well as Italy, have formed local labor councils in the past few weeks in order to press for collective bargaining outside of Ryanair's in - house employee representative committees.

Women typically own smaller businesses, according to a 2010 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economics and Statistics Administration for the White House Council on Women and Girls.

One of the U.K.'s top private banking houses, Coutts works with the British Fashion Council in supporting the Fashion Forward program for emerging designers.

In Pittsburgh, for example, the city council just assembled a housing task force this year to investigate the housing problem and issued a slate of recommendations in May, one that includes many of the strategies listed in the Furman Center report.

«Larry Kudlow was offered, and accepted, the position of Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council,» Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House Press Secretary, said in a statement Wednesday.

Cook's advocacy for the agreement echoes that of Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who tweeted Wednesday that he would resign from White House Advisory Councils should the United States withdraw.

Sanders, an independent who ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, said the bill aimed to hold opioid manufacturers accountable for their role in the epidemic and force them to help pay for the crisis, which the White House Council of Economic Advisers has estimated cost more than $ 500 billion in 2015..

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump is set to unveil a framework for tax reform, building off work done by the so - called Big Six: a group of top tax policymakers in the Trump administration (Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and National Economic Council director Gary Cohn), the Senate (Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Finance Committee chair Orrin Hatch), and the House (Speaker Paul Ryan and Ways and Means Committee chair Kevin Brady).

Blandin also served as: special assistant to the assistant secretary of administration, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, from 1977 to 1981; executive director of the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, from 1972 to 1977; executive staff assistant in the Office of the Governor, California Council on Intergovernmental Relations, from 1970 to 1971; and just prior to joining ASEC, Blandin served nine months as executive vice president of the Council for Excellence in Government.

The White House Council of Economic Advisers has released a 30 - page strategy for reducing drug costs, and it calls current policies «neither wise nor just.»

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

He was the US Treasury Secretary in 1999 - 2001 under President Bill Clinton and served as the director of the White House National Economic Council for President Barack Obama in 2009 - 10.

The Stonecrest City Council voted 4 - 2 on Monday to de-annex 345 acres of land if the e-commerce giant picks the area for what the company calls HQ2, a corporate hub where Seattle - based Amazon says it will one day house 50,000 jobs.

That includes Kevin Harrington, a managing director of Thiel Capital, who joined the National Security Council, and Michael Kratsios, the chief of staff for Thiel Capital, who took the reins as deputy chief technology officer at the White House.

With all these great benefits to individuals, communities, and businesses comes one more boon: the White House Council of Economic Advisors reports that by increasing productivity and job satisfaction, work flexibility is good for our economy at large.

According to the National Multifamily Housing Council, renters account for more than one third of all U.S. households.

«That this House expresses profound concern that, despite voting 279 in favour and none against the motion calling on the Government to refer genocidal atrocities of Daesh to the United Nations Security Council on 14 April 2016, still, no such referral has been made; recalls the words of the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs in an article in the Telegraph on 27 March 2016, Daesh are engaged in what can only be called genocide of the poor Yazidis, though for some baffling reason the Foreign Office still hesitates to use the term genocide; and calls on the Government to ensure that the unanimous will of Parliament is implemented with urgency.»

I believe that its important to see inner wisdom and the council of friends and wise and knowledgeable people... but God, if he / she exists created us — right... oh yes w / brains... we should be honoring that by using them... I can imagine if God exists every day he is saying to himself / herself «why do people keep asking me for things I have not control over, or really could care less about (people are asking for a new shinny house to replace their perfectly fine house while millions are homeless around the world, hungry, sick, etc.)... why are they not using the gifts and skills they have».

As the wife of Saeed Abedini, the 33 - year - old Iranian - American pastor imprisoned for more than 250 days, testifies before the United Nations's Human Rights Council today, the White House has issued its strongest statement yet advocating for Abedini's release.

Angela Glover Blackwell, Appointee for Member, President's Advisory Council on Faith - Based and Neighborhood Partnerships Angela Glover Blackwell is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Policy Link, a nonprofit organization that strives to advance economic and social equity, improving access and opportunity for all low - income people and communities of color, particularly in the areas of health, housing, transportation, education and infrastructure.

CHAMPIONS INCLUDE: Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Nguyen Xuan Cuong, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Vietnam Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Gilbert Houngbo, President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Former White House Chef, Founder of TROVE and Venture Partner, Acre Venture Partners Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Rajiv Shah, President, The Rockefeller Foundation Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

In January of 2012, actor and musician Gary Sinise asked Temecula City Council if he and his Lt. Dan Band could play a benefit concert at City Hall to help his foundation (Gary Sinise Foundation) contribute to building a house for a wounded veteran who wanted to move to Temecula.

Dave Lewis, Group Chief Executive, Tesco (Chair) Erik Solheim, Executive Director, United Nations Environment (Co-Chair) Vytenis Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Peter Bakker, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development John Bryant, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, Kellogg Company Paul Bulcke, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Nestlé Wiebe Draijer, Chairman of the Executive Board, Rabobank Shenggen Fan, Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute Peter Freedman, Managing Director, The Consumer Goods Forum Louise Fresco, President of the Executive Board, Wageningen University & Research Liz Goodwin, Senior Fellow and Director, Food Loss and Waste, World Resources Institute Marcus Gover, Chief Executive Officer, Waste and Resources Action Programme Hans Hoogeveen, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Netherlands to the UN Organizations for Food and Agriculture Selina Juul, Chairman of the Board and Founder, Stop Wasting Food Movement in Denmark Yolanda Kakabadse, President, WWF International Sam Kass, Senior Food Analyst at NBC News and former U.S. White House Chef Michael La Cour, Managing Director, IKEA Food Services AB Michel Landel, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Sodexo Esben Lunde Larsen, Minister of Environment and Food, Denmark José Antonio Meade, Minister of Finance, Mexico Gina McCarthy, Former Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Denise Morrison, President and Chief Executive Officer, Campbell Soup Company Kanayo Nwanze, Former President, International Fund for Agricultural Development Rafael Pacchiano, Secretary of the Environment and Natural Resources, Mexico Paul Polman, Chief Executive Officer, Unilever Juan Lucas Restrepo Ibiza, Chairman, Global Forum on Agricultural Research Judith Rodin, Former President, The Rockefeller Foundation Oyun Sanjaasuren, Chair, Global Water Partnership Lindiwe Majele Sibanda, Vice President for Country Support, Policy and Delivery, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa Feike Sijbesma, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board, Royal DSM Andrew Steer, President and Chief Executive Officer, World Resources Institute Achim Steiner, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme Tristram Stuart, Founder, Feedback Rhea Suh, President, Natural Resources Defense Council Rhoda Peace Tumusiime, Former Commissioner for Rural Economy and Agriculture, The African Union Sunny Verghese, Co-Founder, Group Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, Olam International Tom Vilsack, Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture Senzeni Zokwana, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Republic of South Africa

In approving the Nitti subdivision, a planned development of 56 new homes to be built on the site of the former Elmhurst Hospital site on Berteau, Elmhurst city council members also approved substantial increases in impact fees that will add $ 10,100 to the cost of a house in the subdivision and generate $ 470,000 for Elmhurst schools and $ 95,000 for the Park District.

2009 N.M. House Memorial 58 requests the governor's women's health advisory council to convene a task force to study the needs of breastfeeding student - mothers and make recommendations for breastfeeding accommodations in school environments.

The budget laid out by Mayor Bill de Blasio, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and members of the City Council designates funds for crime prevention in public housing developments, enhanced services for inmates, free school lunch for middle schoolers, child care for low - income families, and...

By Luke Tate, Special Assistant to the President for Economic Mobility, White House Domestic Policy Council & Josh Miller, Director of Product Management, White House Office of Digital Strategy

The plans mean new tenants will lose the right to live in a council house for life and instead local authorities will be able set a fixed term tenancy of between two and five years.

Crucially for the council, the deal committed both sides to the wider regeneration of the area through the development of a «North Tottenham Regeneration programme», including plans to build 1,650 new flats and houses, a library, a cinema, bars, shops and restaurants and a Sainsbury's supermarket.

Philip Blond is certainly prolific at churning out this drivel, but for me the essence of Red Toryism is the following section (from the article that Stuart cited): «Councils have used their housing stock to generate cash income for benefit dependency for generations.

Last week, Susan and Lucy, along with other residents, teamed up with housing activists to call on councils to bring them back to London and to investigate the suitability of Boundary House as accommodation for families.

To me this has never made sense, ever since the abolition of Avon County Council, the idea of real strategic planning for transport, housing, jobs and growth has eluded us.

A few of stories from this month's casework tray: - We recently received an angry letter from a constituent who was complaining the local council had refused permission for a satellite dish at the side of his house.

She was sent there by Newham council after she turned to them for support with housing following the breakdown of her relationship.

Oral Questions - Home Office, including Topical Questions Statement — European Council Legislation - European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL]- Committee of the whole House Legislation - European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL]- Report stage Legislation - European Union (Approvals) Bill [HL]- Third reading Backbench Business - Local government finance settlement for rural authorities Adjournment - Policing violence at hunts - Chris Williamson

Sir Steve Bullock, the Labour mayor of Lewisham and housing spokesperson for London Councils, told politics.co.uk that more and more families were being forced into bed and breakfast accommodation, paid for by the taxpayer, as a result of the changes.

«The State Executive Council has already approved the bill to give effect to this initiative, which we shall soon transmit for the consideration of the House of Assembly and passing into law.

Four days ago DCLG wrote to councils in England - housing is a devolved issue - asking for the number of social and council housing blocks in each area above 18m in height, that used aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding.

At 10 a.m., Housing Rights Initiative and NYC Council Oversight & Investigations Committee Chair Ritchie Torres announce an investigation into Kushner Companies for falsifying permits with the NYC Department of Buildings and the impact it had on reducing the number of rent - stabilized apartments across the city, Kushner Companies Headquarters, 666 Fifth Ave., Manhattan.

And Graham Brady has declared that the challenge for his colleagues is «to come up with solutions that are as appealing, and encapsulate our principles as perfectly, as the sale of council houses back in the 1980s».

At the start of the 1980s, local authorities were one of the biggest direct providers of housing: Right to Buy and other policies, such as the right for tenants to opt for management by an «approved landlord» rather than the council under the Housing Act 1988, were intended to transform them into «enablers&housing: Right to Buy and other policies, such as the right for tenants to opt for management by an «approved landlord» rather than the council under the Housing Act 1988, were intended to transform them into «enablers&Housing Act 1988, were intended to transform them into «enablers».

Also at 11 a.m., the NYCHA Citywide Council of Presidents announce a campaign to push New York City for human rights and dignified living conditions for people living in New York City Housing Authority communities, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Experts warn that councils could choose to spend this on other forms of emergency accommodation, including housing for older people and homeless people.

For example on housing their ideological position suggests that they would try to build a lot of new council housing.

«Domestic violence, or the threat of it, is understood to be a good reason for leaving a property, but for the council to owe a housing duty, the person must also be in priority need.»

You can see the negative effects of gentrification in traditionally working class areas of London such as Hackney, where the demolition of estates to make way for new private housing complexes has led to some local residents on low incomes being relocated by the council to other parts of the country, away from their families and support networks.

As Chair of the Council's Housing and Buildings Committee, I am thrilled that the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) has for the first time in its history voted to freeze rent for 1.2 million rent stabilized tenants,» said Williams, who represents the 45th Council District in Brooklyn.

I asked Lander what he made of the independent expenditures that REBNY has made, through their Jobs for New York PAC, on behalf of Council Member (and fellow Progressive) Margaret Chin, and if that violated the Progressive Caucus» stated principles on affordable housing.