Sentences with phrase «of emergency housing»

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He's now being urged to declare a nation - wide «state of emergency» over the issue by a White House commission, as part of a wide - ranging list of recommendations which also encourages easier access to heroin antidotes and mental health treatment.

White House opioid commission urges state of emergency on crisis.

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.

The Obama Administration's request for $ 3.7 billion in emergency funding, largely to deal with the care of the children and expedited hearings on their deportations, has not been warmly received by the Republican - led House of Representatives.

Indeed, Secretary of Health Tom Price confirmed that the White House would not declare a state of emergency at this time.

When the collection of major works housed at the city's world - class Detroit Institute of Arts Museum was in danger of being liquidated to pay off municipal debt, the federal mediator, Judge Gerald Rosen, city emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, and other civic leaders leaned heavily on community and national foundations, lawmakers and the museum itself to put their money where their masterpieces were.

Bremmer is an unapologetic globalist (as am I.) But in his new book: Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism, he says that critics who focus on Trump «and ignore the underlying emergencies that lifted him to the White House... exacerbate the American problem of us vs. them.»

Both chambers pared Obama's request for two years of emergency funds to just this year; the Senate is offering $ 2.7 billion and the House of Representatives $ 1.5 billion.

A federal judge issued an emergency stay on parts of the executive order Saturday evening, but the DHS and the White House responded early Sunday, saying that the order continues to remain in force.

I was reminded of this point at a recent meeting of the Emergency Food and Shelter Board - an organization I have served on for several years now with a primary goal of providing transitional housing to at risk homeless.

It seems crazy to even talk about the idea of someone moving to a smaller house or trading in their car in order to bulk up their emergency fund or fund their 401 (k), even if doing so would probably make them happier in the long run.

We save for emergencies, for down payments on a house, our children and their future needs, and we save for our future when we're not working, and in some form of retirement.

One of the ways the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) measures hurricane damage is by the Waffle House Index.

This might be a little late for Florida residents, but for people in the Carolinas and other places — and for future storms — here's some good advice: At the first sign of a possible major storm make sure your gas tank is full (it's always a good idea regardless of circumstances) and keep extra cases of bottled water and other emergency supplies in your house.

Seattle is also in the midst of a housing crisis, with King County even going so far as to declare a state of emergency over the issue in 2015.

* $ 100k deposit on a $ 500k apartment (80 % LVR) * $ 80k deposit on another $ 400k apartment (80 % LVR) * $ 30k in stocks (see above for allocation) * $ 24k three months emergency fund placed in mortgage offset account (3 months of two mortgage repayments plus strate levies for both properties $ 18k, 3 mths living expenses $ 6k) * $ 16k left - > save that for building up another deposit / down payment for either a studio / 1or2 br apartment or a house

I would like to acknowledge what is a long list: Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Office of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Department of Financial Services, the New York Legal Assistance Group, Staten Island Legal Services, the Legal Aid Society, MFY Legal Services, various bar associations, New York City Department of Small Business Services, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Housing Services of Staten Island and the Northfield Local Community Development Corporation.

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.

About 75 % of the tax money would go towards funding more affordable housing and the rest towards emergency and shelter services for the homeless.

The hundreds of pages of transcripts from eight meetings and six emergency conference calls held by the policymaking Federal Open Market Committee, show Fed officials struggling from the start of 2008 to assess the economic damage of a steep drop in housing prices and then worrying about the implications of their actions to halt the crisis.

Another common situation where people decide to make a 10 % down payment is when they wish to set aside a portion of their cash for things like emergency funds, remodeling their house, or other investments.

A Sept. 15 inspection found Civic Towers unsafe for habitation due to mold and water intrusion from the hurricane, and the city is accusing owner Redwood Housing Partners of Burlingame, California of preventing residents from accessing their belongings, according to a Sept. 20 emergency motion in Miami - Dade Circuit Court.

In December, the House of Representatives passed an $ 81 billion emergency aid bill to help hurricane victims in Puerto Rico, Florida and Texas, and wildfire victims in California.

Late into the night last Monday, the House of Commons held an emergency debate, initiated by Conservative Party MPs, on the process for the Trans - Mountain Pipeline.

Meanwhile, researchers in Regina found that Housing First created cost savings of nearly $ 75,000 per person annually through lower costs of policing, days in hospital, emergency room visits, and detox visits.

«However, redoing a kitchen, re-siding a house, or financing other home or auto «upgrades» would not be good use of emergency funds.»

After Nava was released from the hospital, George invited him to stay at his house, and another student, Jonathan Hwang, volunteered to stay with Nava and wake him every four hours as the emergency room doctor had ordered (because of the possibility that he had sustained a concussion).

Some churches are involved in community services, especially emergency - care services: crisis counseling centers, battered women's shelters and other housing for homeless women and young people — many of whom are running away from physical and sexual abuse.

I practice the sabbath day, and to think that because one went out of the house on Saturday if there is an emergency, they will be put to death is crazy, something is definitely wrong with this law.

In the U.S. there are at least 3,000 emergency pregnancy centers, 20 percent of which offer not merely counseling and emergency funds but also hospital coverage, housing, job training and postnatal care.

«They've been able to end food emergency calls in the Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh, we'd like to see that replicated across the region.»

Now the canned frosting is only in an emergency like if there is not any chocolate in the house and not a cookie or piece of cake.

I think every house needs a jar of emergency cookies standing by for these things... and now I think it should be labeled «Tumble Cookies».

These are the teethers that you'll keep at Grandma's house, in your diaper bag, in the glove compartment and other In Case of Emergency locations.

And according to Mr. Rothman - Shore, the B can be updated to mean «Bathroom» (i.e. have kids go to the bathroom before you leave the house) when children are toilet trained, an update that came to him after he recently used the mnemonic when trying to get his kids out of the house during an emergency.

Child Proof the House (Set the temperature of your hot water heater to 120 degrees F, use covers on electrical outlets and latches on cabinets, keep household cleaners, chemicals and medicines completely out of reach and always store them in their original container and know the Poison Control Center number (1-800-222-1222), do not carry hot liquids or food near your child and do not allow your child near stoves, heaters or other hot appliances (especially curling irons), and when cooking, use the back burners and turn pot handles inward, to prevent drowning, never leave your child alone near any container of water, keep a list of emergency numbers near the phone, and lock rooms that are not child proof).

The kids will be fine, the teenager will make sure they don't fall down a well and you'll be in the house in case of emergency.

You also won't have to worry about the crying baby for 30 minutes to 2 hours straight if you were out of the house at feeding time and forgot the emergency bottles.

But if parents wants to have formula in the house in case of emergency, they should buy it instead of getting it as part of a marketing campaign via the hospital.

These guards are hard to open for kids, but adults can easily open them in case of any emergency like a house fire.

My husband wanted us to see a doctor, but we live in a small, isolated town with no health services, so our only solution would have been to go to the emergency department of the nearest hospital (40 minutes» drive from our house), and — with my temperature at 39.5 °C — I didn't feel like driving, I didn't want to bring my daughter with me to the hospital, and who knows how many hours we would have had to wait.

I know how long it takes to get out of the house in an emergency, and how long it can take to get through the doors of a hospital.

From what foods are allowed to be in their houses, to always having emergency medications on hand, to where they're allowed to go in public, having a child with severe food allergies takes over most aspects of a family's day - to - day activities.

(These moments, of course, are fewer and farther between than the moments of cursing and bemoaning the fact that my boys attend a school where lunches have to be ordered a full week in advance — so there's no emergency lunch - money fallback available in our house!)

There will be no emergency bill after then, and Jack Straw has reinforced that in the House of Commons.»

The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Kwara State Ministry of Justice, Jimoh Mumini, made this known after an emergency Security Council meeting chaired by Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed on Wednesday at the Government house in Ilorin.

The agreement, hailed as historic by politicians was approved following emergency legislation in the House of Commons.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency at the New York City Housing Authority and ordered an independent monitor be appointed to oversee and expedite repairs to the agency's deteriorating buildings, where 400,000 New Yorkers live.

Also at 10 a.m., Rep. Dan Donovan, the House Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications, will chair a Congressional field hearing at the College of Staten Island titled Securing our Communities: Federal Support to High - Risk Urban Areas, Center for the Arts, 2800 Victory Boulevard, Building 1P.

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