Sentences with phrase «on public housing ritchie»

The bureaucracy connected with gaining permission to do volunteer work on public housing would be the easy part.

I used to work down in JC & Newark in the early to late 90's for a construction company and have been in the worst of areas while working on public housing projects & private projects.

Calvin Gurley — Accountant and auditor, served as a member of a mayoral commission on public housing

In a similar fashion, student loans and financial aid count as income on your public housing benefit application.

September 14 — «Class Divide (2016)» is a documentary about class division and gentrification in the West Chelsea neighborhood of New York City and its effects on public housing.

Sea level rise and its impact on public housing is just one risk climate change poses to HUD's mission.

«The findings of this report make it clear that NYCHA is in need of immediate reforms from the ground up,» said City Council Member Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing.

Their comments were in response to requests from Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Committee on Public Housing, for assurances that the housing authority leaders would not sell property — which former Mayor Michael Bloomberg had proposed as a fix for NYCHA's ballooning operating deficits and $ 17 billion backlog in repairs.

Albany, NY — State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester), New York City Council Member Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, Senator Diane Savino (D - Staten Island / Brooklyn), Senator Adriano Espaillat (D - Manhattan / Bronx), Democratic Ranking Member of the Senate Housing Committee, and more than 500 hundred New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) tenants, today rallied at the state capitol to call for increased state funding to update and repair deplorable conditions in NYCHA developments in the Bronx and beyond.

NYC Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing: «For too long the state has abdicated its responsibility to public housing and complacently accepted its rapid decline.

As Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing, Council Member Torres oversaw the New York City Housing...

ALBANY — State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has reached deals with three major real estate firms to stop what he claimed was the illegal denial of apartments to people on public housing assistance, the Daily News has learned.

He is the youngest member of the City Council and was elected to the body in 2013, and he chairs the Committee on Public Housing in addition to sitting on the Land Use Committee.

Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Council's Committee on Oversight and Investigations — who previously headed the Committee on Public Housing — said the Council found that 323,000 residents were deprived of heat and hot water during the winter.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency agreed this weekend to pay $ 100 million for new boilers at dozens of public housing developments damaged by Superstorm Sandy after Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the Council's comittee on public housing, held a Public Housing Committee hearing in a Coney Island NYCHA development last month to raise awareness of the issue.

Today Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito today announced that Councilman Ritchie Torres was appointed Deputy Leader and Chairman of the Committee on Public Housing.

NYCHA's inability to accurately and effectively keep out sex offenders must be investigated and addressed quickly, and I look forward to the hearing on this topic in order to get NYCHA's plan for removing them,» said Council Member Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing.

Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Committee on Public Housing and a NYCHA native himself, was on hand to praise the «bold plan.»

Councilman Ritchie Torres was appointed Deputy Leader and Chairman of the Committee on Public Housing

MADISON, Wis. (AP)-- Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday called on the Wisconsin Legislature to pass a sweeping welfare overhaul package that includes requiring parents on food stamps to meet a work requirement, imposes new drug testing on public housing applicants and lays down a photo - identification requirement for food - stamp recipients.

City Councilman Ritchie Torres, who chairs the council's committee on public housing, described it as «outrageous» that it was taking NYCHA this long to hire a permanent replacement for its director of elevators.

She will also work with Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chair of the council's committee on public housing, to hold «NYCHA accountable to residents,» she said in a statement.

On the MTA he is on the defensive; on public housing, he is proactively criticizing de Blasio and casting himself as a politician who delivers results.

Council Member Torres, Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, allocated $ 3 million dollars toward security cameras and layered access in the Parkside development.

Bronx council member and Committee on Public Housing Chair Ritchie Torres was even more direct and said the Trump administration «poses the gravest threat to public housing» in NYCHA's 83 years.

A general preference will be given to veterans and to persons on public housing waiting lists for all units.

Most «egregiously» — at least, according to Bronx Councilman Ritchie Torres, chairman of the Committee on Public Housing — the city assesses NYCHA a payment in lieu of property taxes on its buildings that exceeds $ 30 million each year.

City Councilmember Ritchie Torres, Chair of the Council's Committee on Public Housing, announced that the Committee would require Olatoye to appear before an oversight hearing in early December.

The New York City Council Committee on Public Housing holds an oversight hearing examining elevator safety in NYCHA housing following the death of Olegario Pabon at Boston Road Plaza, Council Chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

City Council members said they found «common ground» with Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo on public housing issues after a lengthy, closed - door meeting at the State Capitol Tuesday.

The state health department will open an investigation into what impact NYCHA's lead paint failures have had on public housing tenants in southern Queens.

Bronx prosecutors have quietly stopped charging people arrested for trespassing on public housing projects through stop and frisk procedures, unless they interview the arressting officer and the officer convinces them to proceed.

NYC Council members said they found «common ground» with Cuomo on public housing issues after a lengthy, closed - door meeting at the state Capitol.

Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits for the poor.

Ritchie Torres, who chairs a city council committee on public housing, said at the press conference that there was a direct link between the falsification of permits and the decline in affordable housing in New York.

Not exact matches

Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.

The House Committee on Energy and Commerce has also requested Zuckerberg's testimony, while the Senate Judiciary Committee has been mulling doing so since two senators asked its chairman, Sen. Chuck Grassley, to bring the billionaire in for a public hearing.

The White House will hold more than 100 open houses during the month of December and host more than 25,000 visitors on public tours.

The Arthur Liman Public Interest Program at Yale first collected data from state and federal corrections officials in 2014 and again, in more detail, last year, taking what amounts to a comprehensive census on the use of solitary confinement in the U.S. Researchers found that in the fall of 2015, at least 67,442 U.S. prisoners were kept in some kind of restricted housing.

A White House National Security Council spokesman said «While we have no comment on individual actions, protecting critical infrastructure, including the supply chains associated with such infrastructure, is a critical part of protecting Americas national security and public safety.»

Republican House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady on Wednesday cautioned against the U.S. imposing «indiscriminate» tariffs against China and he encouraged a wider public discussion before the U.S. takes new trade measures.

The only problem is that it's still legal to fire LGBT employees in 28 states where such workers aren't covered by state laws that protect various minorities from discrimination on the job, as well as in housing and public accommodations.

So when Daren Metropoulos bought the 12 - bedroom house in 2016, it was the private equity firm Rizvi — through a shell company called «Mansion Holdings» — on the other side of the $ 100 million deal, according to the public records.

President Donald Trump will not assert executive privilege to block fired FBI Director James Comey from testifying on Capitol Hill, the White House said Monday, setting the stage for a dramatic public airing of the former top law enforcement official's dealings with the commander in chief.

Public housing vouchers for the poor are targeted as well, much to the consternation of the pragmatic - minded lawmakers on the House and Senate Appropriations committees, whose programs were significantly curbed by a hard - fought 2011 budget and debt agreement.

USA Today in late February reported that Shulkin's assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs, John Ullyot, in a call initiated by Cashour, had lobbied a senior aide on the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade members of Congress to call the White House and request Shulkin's ouster.

She was invited to the White House during President Obama's administration to speak about financial literacy and to moderate a public meeting of the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability at the U.S. Treasury Department.

Zuckerberg and his cohort have taken to employing tactics normally used by high - profile celebrities and movie stars, such as «purchasing houses through trusts or corporate entities so that the owners» names are not on public deeds,» in an effort to keep their identities secret while they construct megamansions throughout the Bay Area and Palo Alto in California.

The Republican - led Mississippi Senate voted 31 - 17 to pass House Bill 1523, otherwise known as the «religious liberty» bill, states that public employees, businesses, religious organizations and social workers will not face repercussions for denying services to people based on «sincerely held» religious beliefs.

On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.On Jan. 26, Acting Attorney General Sally Yates contacted White House counsel Don McGahn to raise concerns about discrepancies between the public accounting and what intelligence officials knew to be true about the contacts based on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.on routine recordings of communications with foreign officials who are in the U.S.