Sentences with phrase «public housing system»

Town Camp people have no faith in the Northern Territory Government or their public housing system.

Bruce Davenport Jr. grew up within the New Orleans public housing system, made drawings as a child, and played football in college until an injury, followed by Katrina, precipitated his return to making art.

And more resources are being devoted to the city's public housing system, particularly to improve security after a recent crime spike.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday in Brooklyn Supreme Court, names the police officer, Peter Liang; the officer's partner at the time, Shaun Landau; the New York City Housing Authority, which runs the public housing system; and the New York Police Department, along with the city.

Now, they are scrambling to decipher how the executive order might affect the city's finances and how the city will fund repairs to the largest public housing system in the country.

Actress and gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon took aim at her ally Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo due to their feuding over New York City's public housing system (NYCHA), vowing not to engage in such a «pissing contest» if she were to become governor.

After years of neglect and a winter of heating failures, New York City's massive public housing system is finally getting attention from politicians, who are simultaneously promising a fix and using the crisis to blame and bludgeon their rivals in an election year.

He gave $ 250 million to the city's beleaguered public housing system — but then declared a state of emergency and ordered an independent monitor.

As Mayor Bill de Blasio and leaders of the embattled New York City Housing Authority continue to respond to fallout from revelations that NYCHA had failed for years to comply with federal and local laws around lead paint inspections, some elected officials are renewing calls for the state take a more active role in the city's massive public housing system.

In her speech on Tuesday Ms. Nixon called for a greater investment in the city's ever - deteriorating public housing system.

With more than 400,000 residents, the New York City Housing Authority, or NYCHA, is the largest public housing system in the country.

With the city's public housing system in crisis, Mayor Bill de Blasio rode the pine on Thursday — as he headed down to Florida for a baseball spring training getaway...

By way of example, Mr. Stringer said that Chicago's public housing system receives $ 3,500 in federal energy subsidies per unit, whereas New York's obtains just $ 101.

The troubles and scrutiny only accelerated in the final months of Shola Olatoye's tenure as chairwoman of the nation's largest public housing system.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is all talk when it comes to supporting residents of the city's public housing system, Mayor Bill de Blasio charged Friday.

Fields is one of more than 400,000 residents of the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the country's largest public housing system, who stands to be impacted by the executive order signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo declaring a state of emergency this past Mon., Apr. 2nd.

In a follow - up to the debate, Gotham Gazette asked Stringer's office about his apparent openness to some home ownership among NYCHA tenants and what that might mean for a privatization of the nation's largest public housing system.

Reginald Bowman, President Citywide Council of Presidents of the New York City Housing Authority — the official leader of residents of the city's sprawling public housing system — blasted the pol's remarks as reminiscent of decapitated French Queen Marie Antoinette.

The steps were taken to address recent problems plaguing the public housing system, including a lead paint scandal and problems with boilers and heating systems that left 300,000 people without heat and hot water during the winter.

She also cited a report from 2014 in which the city inspected 36 apartments of the 177,666 apartments in the public housing system, or less than 1 percent of units, and found one lead paint hazard.

New York City's sprawling public housing system — the largest in the U.S. — needs an estimated $ 25 billion of repairs, up from $ 6 billion in 2005.

Cuomo is all talk when it comes to supporting residents of the NYC public housing system, de Blasio charged.

Not exact matches

What I can say though, Wolf, is, as you said, we were public about the fact that we were dealing with cyber intrusions and the State Department was public about that, but the fact of the matter is that we have different systems here at the White House, so we have an unclassified system and then we have a classified system, a top - secret system.

«It's an all - embracing system,» explains a senior public - housing officer.

Georgia ranks No. 1 in workforce development and has one of the largest university systems in the U.S., housing more than 50,000 annual graduates from 31 public colleges and universities.

Each country's debt overhead, housing prices, tax rates, public subsidies and fiscal systems determine product prices.

By building and operating an excellent public transit system, employers can access a wider pool of employees, employees can access more job opportunities, families can deal with housing affordability challenges by living with one less car, and productive and busy people can save time by having a fast and reliable alternative to sitting in traffic.

Opening Statement to House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics, Finance and Public Administration — The Australian Payments System

When the Church (or at least the U.S. bishops conference) pronounces on public policy specifics» welfare reform, medical delivery systems, or armaments strategy, for examples» the Catholic house divides the other way.

But what of situations where a dual - race system arose not de jure but de facto, i.e., in response to housing patterns in which public officials and public policy had little or no direct role?

Run by radicals for approximately twenty years, Berkeley has experienced the virtual ruin of its public school system, a vastly increased municipal bureaucracy, a greatly diminished housing stock (thanks to stringent rent controls and other restrictions on property rights), increased crime and drug abuse, widespread corruption, and wholesale waste of public funds.

The plan establishes a set of six fundamental principles for the region, which include: transportation and other infrastructure upgrades; new commercial and residential growth; land use and transportation decisions based on policies like the Global Warming Solutions Act and the Clean Energy and Climate Plan; creation and preservation of workforce housing that matches new job rates; creation and maintenance of an effective public transit system; and coordinated planning and implementation efforts.

Also at 11 a.m., more than 25,000 letters will be delivered to state leaders demanding action this year to address decades of inconsistent and unreliable state funding which has placed New York State's system of mental health - housing at its financial breaking point, Assembly chamber public entrance, 3rd Floor, state Capitol, Albany.

Mr. Speaker, I am proud to report to this august House that after a few months of intense preparation, the Akufo - Addo Government has: • rolled out the destiny - changing free Senior High School policy across all public schools to ensure equal opportunities for every Ghanaian child • rolled - out the National Digital Property Addressing System to provide a unique address for all properties in Ghana • Launched the National Identification Scheme; and • Restored the teachers and nurses training allowances.

Elsewhere in the housing strategy, the theme of building new homes continues with a # 500 million Growing Places Fund, the release of public sector land for building, a # 400 million Get Britain Building investment fund, a simplified planning system and support for self builders.

Rapper Ja Rule joined local elected officials and public housing residents from across NYC at a rally Tuesday to call for investment and immediate renovations to NYCHA's failing heating systems.

Cuomo will be demanding federal budget relief from Senate and House members representing states whose public university systems, for the most part, charge higher tuitions than New York's.

Australias House of Representatives is elected by the Alternative Vote (AV) system, which will be offered to the British public in a referendum next May.

Earlier this year, the Times reported that the group was targeting «10 to 15 House lawmakers whose records and public statements have not been supportive of what Mr. Soros calls a system of «citizen - led» elections.»

In July 2004, the Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) of the House of Commons and, concurrently, Sir Hayden Phillips, Permanent Secretary at the Department of Constitutional Affairs, both concluded reviews of the system.

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY (02/15/2013)(readMedia)-- Community Voices Heard and a number of allied organizations will host a public meeting in Poughkeepsie with federal and state elected officials to discuss issues important to low - income residents of the Hudson Valley, including affordable housing, youth issues, raising the minimum wage, immigration reform, safety net programs, job creation, instituting a Fair Elections system in the state, as well as the federal and state budget.

The House of Commons» public administration committee's report on the honours system of July 2004 recommended the abolition of the Order of the Bath and the Order of St Michael and St George for this purpose.

But a day later, he would not specify what legal action would look like — though he maintained that he and other mayors across the country would fight in court — nor explain how the city would handle retaliatory cuts to federal funding for the NYPD, the New York City Housing Authority and the city's public hospital system.

House Democrats are crying foul over a massive education bill they say would further erode the state's public school system.

In his first public comments since the budget deal was struck over the weekend, de Blasio repeatedly said Gov. Andrew Cuomo is on the hook for system - wide repairs at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York City Housing Authority.

Last year, de Blasio asked the Legislature for $ 300 million in new funding to help make capital improvements at the New York City Housing Authority, the crumbling system of public housing with a multi-billion dollar dHousing Authority, the crumbling system of public housing with a multi-billion dollar dhousing with a multi-billion dollar deficit.

In his first public comments since the budget deal was struck over the weekend, Bill de Blasio repeatedly said Andrew Cuomo is on the hook for system - wide repairs at the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the New York City Housing Authority.

Osborne's forecasts of continued austerity in the next parliament, a media and public discourse which continues to harden public opinion against claimants, and an ongoing failure to fix underlying causes of social security spend — by building houses and creating well - paying jobs — all mean that our social security system is heading in the direction of much more short - termism.

As Senate lawmakers continue to haggle on Thursday on a one - house budget resolution, the good - government group Common Cause is urging the Independent Democratic Conference to continue to push in the negotiations for a public financing system.

Rep. John Katko asked a committee of House and Senate members Wednesday to restore $ 12 million in funding for Centro and billions for other public transit systems that were cut in a highway bill the House passed earlier this month.