Sentences with phrase «public housing because»

The great tragedy in all this is that I believe that gardening and clean up can have a direct impact on reducing crime in public housing because it provides a pleasant environment and in turn an attitude of hope.

Not exact matches

In August 2007, 22 members of the House of Representatives asked George Bush to back away from the SPP because of their concerns that it may undermine U.S. sovereignty and their strong objections about important discussions continuing «out of public view and without congressional oversight or approval» or the «proper transparency and accountability.»

(Never forget House Speaker Paul Ryan's now - deleted tweet celebrating a public high school employee's salary increasing by $ 1.50 weekly because of the GOP tax law.)

Democrats are corrupt because they could win this game with public pressure by saying if the Fed raises rates, your credit card payments go up, your car payments go up, the value of your house declines, bankers profits increase (not that they aren't too high already).

There's a strong public interest in regulating the sale of housing to people who don't live and work in the Vancouver region, because non-local buyers make housing less affordable for everyone else.

And because the Trump administration has eliminated the public release of White House visitor logs, we won't know which CEOs are meeting with the president or his top associates.

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, said both individuals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the situation.

The word Diwali itself means «festival of lamps», because houses and public spaces are decorated with scores of small oil lamps in honor of the goddess Lakshmi, to whom Hindus pray to for success and wealth.

Not sure what my sin was but perhaps because I am Italian and from NY, I am often loud and outspoken and like to laugh and tell jokes in public, also not the best housekeeper and we have cats, in the house no less, and I am an artist.

The House GOP letter is especially encouraging because it comes as Senator Marco Rubio has taken such a public interest in the issues of income mobility and increasing the returns to work at the lower end of the income distribution.

After all, it wouldn't be the first time that the public have seen her getting down and dirty, because she recently had sex with Marco Pierre White Jr in the BB House.

Robin Kaplan: Yeah, and so - actually Whitney and Daisy, I'd love for you to kind of answer this question as well: After your harassment incident - Whitney, you mentioned that you had a really tough time leaving the house when it was feeding time because of this incident - so would you say you're pretty nervous about breastfeeding in public after this?

Because CHA basketball leagues are aimed at their residents, Park District officials say they realized there was an interest in such a program well outside the boundaries of public housing.

While breast may be best for baby, some mamas are reluctant to breastfeed because they aren't comfortable with breastfeeding in public and don't want to be stuck in their house for months.

Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee and one of the principal architects of the GOP turnout apparatus nationwide, said a top - notch voter identification and turnout effort matters more in a congressional race than a presidential one because there is «much less of a public dialogue» about individual House contests.

But most did so because they worried about what continued high immigration levels meant for access to public services, housing and jobs.

The reporter who accused White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders of inflaming the public against the media at a press briefing, Brian Karem, says he did it because he's tired of being bullied by the administration.

The governor's staff asked elected officials to dress down and remove their ties before a recent public housing event because Cuomo wasn't wearing one, sources told The NY Post.

Because today's sprawl is too often built with public debt that allows upstate developers to build big houses on large lots in what were, till yesterday, green fields.

Specifically, members of the House of Commons» Public Accounts Committee have argued that because companies benefit from all the things on which governments spend money, they should pay more in taxes.

The people who believe immigration is the biggest issue affecting the UK today (public services, housing, jobs, benefits, the lot) mostly believe this because they read it in various newspapers who make a big issue out of it.

As he did in 2008 were he boarded public transport (trotro), because Prof. Mills was then conducting house to house campaign when he «Nana Addo» ordinarily will never do that «He said.

It's worth remembering that the House of Commons does not meet immediately after a general election anyway — and the process of determining who will be prime minister need not be swift just because the media and the public expect it to be.

«In the past few days there has been much pressure on me to make public comment about these matters, but I felt that it was right and fitting that I should make no comment until Parliament reconvenes, because it is this House and this House alone that I serve, as well as being accountable for the actions of its Officers.

«Sal stands against the transfer station because it would hurt the neighborhood, hurt public housing residents, and hurt kids from around the city who play at Asphalt Green,» an Albanese spokesman told DNAinfo New York.

He described how there was no case to be made for reserving seats for Bishops in the House of Lords on the basis that those men are uniquely well placed to provide vital expertise on matters of public policy, because they are not.

He wants a moratorium on building public and subsidized housing because he said public housing is the cause of an abundance of vacant buildings in the city.

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.

At first, Mayor Bloomberg sounded he was outlining why three terms as mayor was enough experience in public office for him, but he quickly switched gears and began characterizing City Hall as the perfect preparation for the White House because it allowed him to buck the Beltway establishment and get real on - the - ground knowledge.

It is the Wal - Mart's of the business world who are profiting most from the low minimum wage standard and also relying on taxpayer subsidies to keep their poverty wage workers fed, housed, and health enough to work for them because these minimum wage workers are paid so low they qualify for food stamps, Section 8 and public housing rent subsidies, Medicaid, and the Earned Income Tax Credit,» Hawkins said.

«I look forward to doing all I can to ensure that my unique story of being a 19 - year - old who moved here, came out at 16, who... found out he was HIV positive at 22 years old, who lost his health insurance three weeks later, who couldn't get insurance because of a preexisting condition, who grew up in public housing, who has always struggled to make ends meet here in New York City,» Johnson said during his inaugural address.

The Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG) has welcomed a recommendation in a report by the House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee that the «self - employed» should be given at least «worker» employment status unless the engager of their labour can prove otherwise.1 This is a recommendation that LITRG made in written evidence to a separate inquiry.2 LITRG believes that the denial of employment rights to people working in the «gig economy» and the exploitation of other flexible workers regarding their taxes share a common cause: the workers» own lack of knowledge, their reluctance to challenge their treatment because they lack confidence or just need the work and the businesses involved apparently having little fear of action being taken against them by public bodies.

«So if a person doesn't have private insurance and their house just got washed away, that's when communities steps up, and that's when neighbors step up, and that's when government is helpful because that's what public service is all about at the end of the day, is helping people and these are clearly people who need help.

NYC Public Advocate Letitia James is fuming over de Blasio's appointment of a «chief compliance officer» to his beleaguered Housing Authority, saying the move is nothing more than window - dressing because the job already exists.

The gov's staff asked elected officials to dress down and remove their ties before a public housing event Monday because Cuomo wasn't wearing one, sources told The Post.

For the House of Lords to earn the confidence of the public, all of us must respect the privileges that come with a peerage and recognise that — because we are unelected — it is especially important to meet the standards the public have a right to expect, and to act swiftly when we fail.»

Pavan Dhaliwal, BHA Head of Public Affairs, commented, «We were critical of the Government's plans for reform of the House of Lords because they included retaining the Bishops.

House Democratic Majority Leader Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland told reporters Friday on a conference call, «As I've said in the past, I'm for a public option but I'm also for passing a bill... but you know we'll have to see because there are many other aspects of the bill as well.»

Michelle de la Uz — appointed to the City Planning Commission by de Blasio when he was public advocate, and reappointed by current Public Advocate Letitia James — has become one of the de Blasio administration's most ardent critics, often voting against the city's housing and development proposals because she believes they do more harm than good and that the housing is not at the levels of affordability it shoupublic advocate, and reappointed by current Public Advocate Letitia James — has become one of the de Blasio administration's most ardent critics, often voting against the city's housing and development proposals because she believes they do more harm than good and that the housing is not at the levels of affordability it shouPublic Advocate Letitia James — has become one of the de Blasio administration's most ardent critics, often voting against the city's housing and development proposals because she believes they do more harm than good and that the housing is not at the levels of affordability it should be.

This article makes a reasonable argument that local governments are in trouble because of the burst of the housing bubble, not your mantra of unionized public employee salaries:

Aresimowicz says he's calling for a September 14th budget vote because his House Democratic caucus wants to avoid what he says are Democratic Governor Dannel Malloy's draconian cuts to public education that would take effect if there is no budget by October 1.

Currently the department uses 60 cameras in five precincts and one public service area that oversees a city housing complex — the first phase of a rollout ordered by a federal judge who ruled in 2013 that the department's use of stop - and - frisk was unconstitutional because it disproportionately targeted minorities.

Because the transfer station sits less than 300 feet from two public housing projects, the Stanley Isaacs Houses and John Holmes Towers, State Assemblyman Micah Kellner has introduced legislation that would make it illegal to site such facilities within 800 feet of public housing complexes in the city.

Public Advocate Letitia James is fuming over Mayor de Blasio's appointment of a «chief compliance officer» to his beleaguered Housing Authority, saying the move is nothing more than window - dressing — because the job already exists.

«We do have to reform but I just want to say that I continue to believe that the vast majority of members of this House are upright, decent, honourable people who have come into politics, not to feather their nests, but because they have heeded the call of public service,» he said.

We need to make sure that we are in control over the things that affects us.Anytime there is flood and people loose their life, most of the blame goes to sitting presidents.I am not saying that the central government does not have responsibility to ensure that enabling environment is created.They have a great work to do but as citizens what is our quota?When you move around Accra, sometimes i becomes angry within myself because i am in doubt as to whether our sanitation laws exit.People because of the tax they claim they pay waits for zoom lion workers to come and clean the choked gutters before our houses and shops either than that, it will remain like that.Is it modernity or civilization that has turned us to forget our traditional values or duties of ensuring that our environments is clean?Everybody in our Ghanaian setting knows the responsibility of men and women in making sure that our environments are clean not waiting for flood to occur and we start blaming sitting presidents.To the media, though your responsibility is to keep governments on it toes, you equally have a mandate in educating the public of what we are expected to do as citizens in other to ensure that our dear nation is a better ecosystem for all of us to live.The attention of the media should be shifted from making politicians popular to making us aware as citizens of our responsibilities.I sometimes get confused to hear journalists calling opponents to comment on issues concerning the sitting governments and the only thing that comes to my mind is what do the journalist want to hear from the political opponents?Nothing.They will end up criticizing without giving an alternative.The media should rather resort in questioning people directly to where the problems are coming from.Let us build our institutions.When it comes to energy issues.Citifm will call Hon.KT Hammond who was a deputy minister living who he worked under (His boss at that time) and I always become confused because what can we expect from him?nothing.

Because right now, New York State is subsidizing luxury development instead of really subsidizing the kind of affordable housing we need, the kind of infrastructure and public schools that we need.

In a lawsuit, tenant leaders representing the 400,000 people living in public housing have asked a judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the New York City Housing Authority because it has failed to provide heat and hot water, keep residents safe from lead, involve tenants in policymaking and hire residents, as required by federal regulhousing have asked a judge to appoint an independent monitor to oversee the New York City Housing Authority because it has failed to provide heat and hot water, keep residents safe from lead, involve tenants in policymaking and hire residents, as required by federal regulHousing Authority because it has failed to provide heat and hot water, keep residents safe from lead, involve tenants in policymaking and hire residents, as required by federal regulations.

One prominent Democrat party official disagreed saying Blake had a good shot because of his national network and work in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement in the Obama White House.

And the White House opposes the measure because it «is contrary to the widely - accepted scientific consensus that GHGs are at increasingly dangerous concentrations... [and] would strip EPA of its authority to protect the public from GHG pollution.»