Sentences with phrase «off of social housing»

The group Sweets Way Resists have been campaigning against the sell - off of social housing on the estate in Barnet, which is due to be replaced with over 200 houses and flats, just 59 of which are set to be «affordable».

In September, Daniel Gardonyi was arrested during a protest against the sell - off of social housing in North London.

The campaigners previously spent around six months occupying empty homes in Sweets Way, North London in a protest against the sell - off of social housing on the estate.

Not exact matches

If not, then best of luck with Social Security, a paid off house and hopefully after - tax investment accounts.

Despite Swann's success, the idea didn't really take off in urban areas in America until the 1980s, when rapidly increasing real - estate prices began shutting many out of homeownership, according to Reinventing Real Estate: The Community Land Trust as A Social Invention in Affordable Housing, by James Meehan.

One would hardly realize that the problem facing U.S. industrial employment is that wage earners must earn enough to pay for the most expensive housing in the world (the FDIC is trying to limit mortgages to absorb just 32 per cent of the borrower's budget), the most expensive medical care and Social Security in the world (12.4 per cent FICA withholding), high personal debt levels owed to banks and rapacious credit - card companies (about 15 per cent) and a tax shift off property and the higher wealth brackets onto labor income and consumer goods (another 15 per cent or so).

The same people who protest international support for third - world countries saying «we need to take care of our own first» are ironically the same people who actually want to abolish food stamps, the WIC program, free school lunches, welfare and social security in the US, never mind the fact that the people who benefit from these programs are the ones who cut their lawns, clean their homes, serve their meals in restaurants, and build their houses, all while going home to a tiny apartment they share with 6 other people and finding nothing to eat in the house but a can of green beans because payday is still 2 days off and there's only enough gas in the car to get them to work the next two days, so driving around town for 2 hours trying to find an open food bank isn't an option.

Dr. Danny Singley: Well, and the counterpoint to that is often times, getting social support and getting out of the house and connecting with other people can fall off the radar for mom too.

The plan is short - sighted in the extreme, unless of course the very intention of it is to kill off social housing altogether.

The aspiration that you leave a house for your children - aside from being a reality for only certain privileged sectors of the population - can also be seen as less «essential» if we are to move away from a situation of astronomical house prices which even most well off young professionals can not afford, and towards a more realistic housing market, in which safe, secure, good quality social housing played a key role.

Selling off the most expensive fifth of social housing could help cut the waiting list for council homes by as much as 600,000 in five years, a thinktank has claimed.

With the cameras it uses to cover Congress shut off by the Republicans, C - SPAN turned to social media feeds to beam live coverage of the House Democrats» protest to the public.

Selling off existing social housing and allowing local people to build their own homes are just two ideas that would vastly increase the number of new homes being built in Britain, says Nick Faith of Policy Exchange

He insists an ambitious programme of reform can win over ordinary voters, saying: «The real middle Britain — of insecure self - employment, rip - off private pensions, unaffordable housing, mounting tuition fee debt and crisis - ridden social care — is crying out for a Labour government committed to fundamental reform.»

I'm not sure how closely y ’ all follow this little blog of mine, but if it isn't painfully obvious already, I've slacked off a bit on the blog / social media scene this week while I'm hustling all over our house to prepare for several upcoming Christmas tours.

Throw in the fact that editors in most big houses are squandering their money on whatever social justice fad there is, and the end result is a huge number of readers who feel either ripped off by high prices, unsatisfied by the available content, or both.

There are a lot of assumptions included in this figure such as your house being paid off and social security providing the income amount expected.

Now this might sound low, but combined with social security and a paid off house, is plenty to life off of for the next 20 - 30 years in most areas of the country.

Besides overfeeding, there are numerous environmental and social factors that contribute, including decreased daily exercise as a result of the summer heat, or confinement to the house while leash holders are off at work.

«I am absolutely delighted that PS4 is off to such a great start in Japan,» said Andrew House, President and Group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. «The responses we have received for the PS4 system's integrated social capabilities have been phenomenal, and I couldn't be more thrilled that gamers are utilizing these unique features to engage, share, play and connect with users around the world.

People leaving prison not only face the aforementioned barriers but also face the additional barriers of disjointed, poor or no rental references, low social skills / low self esteem, prejudice and discrimination, having been taken off the public housing list, or coming out with a public housing debt or other debts.

Aborigines are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy (see Gideon Polya, «Film Review: «Utopia» By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 14 March, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm; Gideon Polya, «Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid Australia», Countercurrents, 16 February 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya160214.htm; «Aboriginal Genocide»: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/; MacRae A, Thomson N, Anomie, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, McLoughlin N, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Trzesinski A, Urquhart B (2013).

ASBURY PARK, NJ — After more than 900 volunteer hours logged, nearly 5,000 dials made during phone banks, millions of social media ad impressions and emails delivered to supporters» inboxes, and thousands of leaflets and conversations shared at train stations and volunteer house parties across the state, Planned Parenthood Action Fund of New Jersey's (PPAFNJ's) get out the vote efforts paid off.

Playing off the success of Colantuono's virtual open house, Coldwell Banker will be hosting VR week on its blog and social channels this month.

I'm not sure how closely y ’ all follow this little blog of mine, but if it isn't painfully obvious already, I've slacked off a bit on the blog / social media scene this week while I'm hustling all over our house to prepare for several upcoming Christmas tours.