Sentences with phrase «public housing agency»

Scotland County, North Carolina, Public Housing Agency and Two Former Employees to Pay Over $ 2.7 Million to Settle Sexual Harassment Lawsuits

The country's largest public housing agency says it's made major progress responding to residents» requests for repairs.

Usually, the tenant pays up to 30 percent of their income in rent and a local public housing agency makes up the difference.

Members of the State Assembly grilled NYCHA Chairman John Rhea Friday concerning the public housing agency's controversial plan to build market - rate housing alongside existing low income developments on the Lower East Side and elsewhere in Manhattan.

Developing land owned by the New York City Housing Authority has the potential to generate much - needed revenue for the public housing agency while simultaneously creating more affordable housing, but those benefits drop off abruptly in less affluent neighborhoods, according to a report released today by NYU's Furman Center.

The New York City Housing Authority is the only public housing agency that has a line item in the budget.

Cuomo and lawmakers, however, also agreed to install an independent monitor to oversee NYCHA, a step that was sought by tenants of the authority, but vehemently opposed by the public housing agency.

During 48 months, Dawn Sanders - Garrett, head of Buffalo's public housing agency, took 34 trips — almost all to conferences or meetings sponsored by five different industry groups — at a cost of $ 27,000.

The city's troubled public housing agency is facing more legal action.

Roughly 5,000 apartments become available each year inside developments run by the New York City Housing Authority, the largest public housing agency in the nation.

As the highest ranking external Board Member, he has overseen a public housing agency slouching towards «demolition by neglect.»

The Assembly appears ready to weigh in on the scandal plagued New York City's public housing agency.

Today U.S. Rep. Nydia Velazquez introduced legislation aimed at making public housing agencies more responsive in future natural disasters.

In November, the Department of Housing and Urban Development passed a new rule mandating that the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) and approximately 3,100 other public housing agencies implement smoke - free policies over the next 18 months.

Public housing agencies, or PHAs, are HUD - approved entities that administer Section 8, public housing and other low - rent and homeowner assistance programs in communities.

Examples include a partnership between HFA and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services to reach foster children who are pregnant or parenting (Cyd Wessel, Healthy Families America); a partnership with SafeCare and local drug courts (Dan Whitaker, SafeCare); partnerships PAT and Parent Child Home Program have formed with local public housing agencies (Kerry Caverly, PAT and Sarah Walzer, PCHP); and partnership between NFP and Goodwill Industries in Indiana (Molly O'Fallon, NFP).

This includes Public Housing Agencies and Multi-Family owners.

Tash is the Executive Director of the Alberta Network of Public Housing Agencies (ANPHA), the industry association for non-profit housing in Alberta, Canada.

Not exact matches

The Department of Housing and Urban Development has been encouraging local public agencies to enact smoking bans, and some 228,000 public housing units were already smoke Housing and Urban Development has been encouraging local public agencies to enact smoking bans, and some 228,000 public housing units were already smoke housing units were already smoke - free.

The White House has not put out an official statement confirming the order, just as it has not confirmed that it has frozen grants and contracts at the age ncy, that the agency is not allowed to communicate with the public, or that the EPA will be barred from funding original science.

In Quebec, for instance, public low - income housing agencies estimate that a recent cut in funding slashed their repair budgets by 30 %.

Trump signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for those who receive benefits from government assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing.

While unpaid postcollege internships have long existed in the film and nonprofit worlds, they have recently spread to fashion houses, book and magazine publishers, marketing companies, public relations firms, art galleries, talent agencies — even to some law firms.

USA Today's Donovan Slack reports: «John Ullyot, the VA's assistant secretary for public affairs, asked a senior aide at the House Committee on Veterans Affairs to persuade lawmakers to call the White House and say they wanted Shulkin out... The move was unsuccessful — but audacious since Ullyot is the secretary's highest ranking aide tasked with publicly defending him and the agency.

Another agency available to residents is the Massachusetts Housing Partnership (MHP), a public non-profit for affordable hHousing Partnership (MHP), a public non-profit for affordable housinghousing.

Primary Underwriting The new issue public finance pipeline provides a diverse offering of municipal products, including major governments, agencies and authorities, local governments, essential services, healthcare, housing and redevelopment, education, corporations, middle market corporations and economic development issues.

Our comprehensive array of capabilities includes acquisition, construction and permanent financing for public and private developers and investors; agency financing for multifamily and seniors housing properties; and debt and equity capital for the affordable housing industry.

The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation, Energy, and Homeland Security, and the Environmental Protection Agency shall develop plans for implementing the requirements of this memorandum, providing technical assistance to nonfederal actors engaged in predevelopment activities, and educating grantees and the public on the benefits of predevelopment and the Federal resources available for these activities.

The very laws and agencies set up to protect them from poor houses, starvation and medical negligence sweep them into a corner out of public view, where they are fed, housed and forgotten.

The actions of government» through zoning boards, urban renewal agencies, public housing authorities, school boards, etc.» inevitably contributed, or so the argument went, to residential segregation.)

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

«Noting the fact that the Sexual Orientation Regulations are being voted on in the House of Commons today,» said the Cardinal, «I again express our concern at their impact, not only on adoption services, but on cooperation between faith - based voluntary agencies and public authorities in public funded services....

Their Supportive Services Programming fulfills the role of health, wellness and social services coordinator for agencies and facility owners involved in the oversight of public housing.

fulfills the role of health, wellness and social services coordinator for agencies and facility owners involved in the oversight of public housing.

We offer a wide range of public and in - house training courses (some accredited), and work in partnership to help agencies develop effective approaches to support children's relationships with their fathers and other male carers.

During 2007 - 08 we ran ten public Roundtable events (open to participants from all agencies within a region) and another three in - house (organised for a specific agency or group of agencies).

The Chicago Food Policy Action Council and the Food Chain Workers Alliance have played a leadership role in the City's adoption of the Program by supporting the Chicago Good Food Taskforce organized by the Mayor's Office including multiple City of Chicago Sister Agencies (Chicago Public Schools, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges, Chicago Housing Authority) and Departments (Department of Public Health, Department of Family and Support Services, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Aviation, and Procurement).

At today's Wiki White House at Google (also sponsored by the New America Foundation and Wired), Ellen Miller made a great point: as far as government information goes, «public» information should ultimately mean «online» information — citizens should not have to dig through paper in some government office to find out what an agency (or an officeholder) is up to.

Residents of public housing are suing NYCHA in order to get an independent monitor appointed to oversee the agency...

«The situation we have seen is as upsetting and disturbing as anything I have seen anywhere, and I've been through public housing all across the country,» said Cuomo, who previously worked for the federal agency overseeing public housing.

Ortom, who later announced the ban on public procession shortly after security operatives whisked him away to Government House in Makurdi also called on security agencies to carry out thorough investigation into the attack on protesting students which led to the loss of lives.»

On November 15, the DOI released the results of an investigation detailing how NYCHA failed to inspect for the hazardous paint at its public housing facilities, and also submitted false documentation to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be perhousing facilities, and also submitted false documentation to the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be perHousing and Urban Development (HUD) stating that the agency was in compliance with federal laws requiring the inspections to be performed.

He had served at various organisations as Public Relations Officer and Press Secretary including Delta State Govt House, Asaba; Ministry of Information, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Health, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), National Press Centre, and National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA).

Michael P. Kelly, a former general manager of New York City's public housing authority, is returning to the job at a time when the agency faces financial pressures even more dire than when he left.

This include seven EFCC investigators, officials of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, officials of the Ministry of Transport, Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, and officials of Bureau of Public Procurement.

He also worked as a policy analyst on a New York education task force, and as a consultant with public housing authorities and child support enforcement agencies around the country.

NORTH HUDSON The public got their first look at the Gateway to the Adirondacks in North Hudson project on Monday when state agencies held an open house - type event to showcase early blueprints for the facility.

The new fellows follow an initial group of 18 chosen last year who came up with ways to digitize disaster recovery efforts, make more government data available to the public for free, and eliminate duplication while speeding up the adoption of new technology by government agencies, Obama told a White House event attended by most of his Cabinet.

The embattled head of the city's public housing authority was grilled at a city council hearing Tuesday over her agency's failure to conduct mandatory lead paint inspections for years.

Because of this, and what Diaz characterized as a complete disregard of public sentiment, Diaz asked the two agencies responsible for approving a plan for the Muller Center — the United State Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Office of Economic Adjustment (OEM)-- to reject the shelter plan submitted by the mayor's office.