Sentences with phrase «social houses every year»

That requires some big and really bold policies, such as — childcare free at the point of use; building 10,000 social houses every year; raising real wages and tackling insecure work.

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.

When you outsource your social media outreach efforts, you often sacrifice quality for quantity, and in the past year we discovered that if we take our social media efforts in house and spend less time on posting but more time on developing great content and promoting that, we have much better results and feedback.

And on Monday, it involves hosting no fewer than 21,000 children and adults for the annual Easter Egg Roll, a 139 - year - old tradition and the Super Bowl of White House social events.

«We will fight to defend them because they are about the health and economic security of America's working families, and we will not use Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security as an ATM machine for the Republicans to give tax breaks to their wealthy friends and corporate America,» House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said at her year - end press conference, signaling that Democrats would not support cuts to Social Security and other entitlements.

Before the end of this year, Social Development Minister Jean - Yves Duclos is slated to table a national housing strategy, the first bid by Ottawa to take a lead in the area — mostly dominated by provinces and cities — in decades.

As housing prices soared, social housing went unbuilt for years.

NDP commitments include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (already implemented by the Conservatives (but with a different phase in); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; and, increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI).

NDP promises include a two point cut in the small business tax rate (already implemented in the budget by the Conservatives); extension of the accelerated capital cost allowance for two years (also already implemented by the Conservatives); an innovation tax credit for machinery used in research and development; an additional one cent of gas tax for the provinces for infrastructure; a transit infrastructure fund; increased funding for social housing; a major child care initiative; increasing ODA funding to 0.7 per cent of Gross National Income (GNI); and restoring the 6 % annual escalator to the Canada Health Transfer.

[1] Admittedly, the Trudeau government did announce $ 30 million in temporary funding for some social housing agreements in its first budget; but that was just two years of funding.

(Four years later, social housing built from shipping containers does arise in the Downtown Eastside, planners crediting Paulsen's series.)

The common assumption is that some savings, in addition to Social Security and a less expensive lifestyle (no more kids in the house, no more commuting costs) will all add up to financial security in our sunset years.

In spite of the economic and social turmoil, 1970 also became famous as the year that the King of Rock «N Roll, Elvis Presley, visited President Richard Nixon in the White House.

Sye notes that a bill called the «No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,» which would place new restrictions on the healthcare law President Obama signed last year, was the third House resolution introduced this year, which he calls a testament to new GOP fervor on social issues.

Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

«When we started 11 years ago, we found ourselves sitting in between [the] European headquarters of multinational companies based in Hammersmith and, on the other side of the church, social housing and tremendous amounts of disengaged youth who were a long way from jobs.

In my years as lead parent, I have gotten the kids out of the house in the morning; enforced bedtimes at night; monitored computer and TV use; attempted to ensure that homework got done right; encouraged involvement in sports and music; attended the baseball games, piano lessons, plays, and concerts that resulted; and kept tabs on social lives.

After some fits and starts over the years, a plan for a new Community Family Center in Highland Park to house multiple social service agencies may finally be moving forward.

ACS is a continuous nationwide survey that collects detailed information on demographic, social, economic, and housing characteristics; these data are only available by zip code as 5 - year estimates (6).

Inclusion criteria: ≤ 25 years, low educational level (primary school or prevocational secondary school), maximum 28 weeks of gestation, no previous live birth, understood Dutch, and at least 1 of the following additional risk factors: no social support, previously or currently experiencing domestic violence, psychosocial symptoms, unwanted and / or unplanned pregnancy, financial problems, housing difficulties, no education and / or employment and alcohol and / or drug use

Buffalo Police Officer Richard Hy, 29, a three - year member of the force last assigned to the Housing Unit, was suspended without pay over his video skits using the social media site Vine.

Quite the social media push from the White House these days... purely a coincidence that we're in an election year, right?

The housing situation in the capital has been descrbed by many as the «social - cleansing» of London and similar protests have been held around the city in the last year.

Just a few years ago, a similar protest for social housing led by working - class families ended without any tangible achievements.

The same year, the estimated number of people on the social housing waiting register in England reached 1.7 million.

«I've been to Govanhill twice this year to film for Dispossession, a documentary on the social housing crisis,» Sng says.

Republicans on the House Budget Committee are pushing forward with a new budget resolution this year designed largely to rein in spending on entitlement programs like Medicare and Social Security, according to the panel's chairman.

Here's something not a lot of people know: The Lib Dems have ensured the first net growth in the social rented housing sector for almost 40 years — its not even remotely enough, but it's a significant turnaround.

The 2010 Spending Review reduced the DCLG's annual housing spending - which supports social housing - by about 60 % to # 4.5 bn for the four years starting 2011 - 12, compared with # 8.4 bn over the previous three years.

The Lib Dems have ensured the first net growth in the social rented housing sector for almost 40 years --

The 73 - year - old financial information industry billionaire, who earned a reputation as a social liberal with strong Wall Street ties during his time as New York City mayor, has considered a White House run for years.

If implemented, from 2013, 670,000 households in the social sector will have their housing benefit cut by an average of # 13 per week - # 670 penalty a year - if they are deemed to have a spare bedroom according to DWP's proposed size criteria.

Social media lit up with activists enthusing about plans to nationalise rail and energy companies, abolish tuition fees and build 100,000 council houses each year.

The Association is pleased to see # 170 million for the delivery of otherwise unfunded social homes especially at a time when we are building fewer houses per year than any time since 1945, although this will be, in the main, financed from savings from the existing housing budget.

Cameron's plans would see statutory guidance issued to local councils demanding people live in the local area for two to five years before they are allowed on the waiting list for social housing.

The comment comes ahead of a major speech on immigration from the prime minister tomorrow in which he will insist foreign nationals pay for GP appointments and be resident two years before they can access social housing.

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.

What is clear is that we have a chronic shortage of housing, social and private, with roots going back many years across both governing parties.

For many years Labour held to a policy of not allowing residents of Northern Ireland to apply for membership, [167] instead supporting the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) which informally takes the Labour whip in the House of Commons.

In a speech hosted by the Chartered Institute of Housing Cymru, Peter Black AM will state that his party will double the current Social Housing Grant budget of # 35million per year to # 70million per year in the next Assembly term and set a target of 20,000 new affordable homes over the same period.

Carwyn Jones has been an outstanding leader of Welsh Labour and First Minister for more than 8 years, and I was his colleague and Minister in his Government for 15 years, securing pioneering legislation in housing, social services, health, trade union rights and the environment.

The ten - year plan for bringing down the peace walls forms part of a broader social integration package featuring measures on shared schools and housing, as well as a surge on regeneration projects.

No wonder house prices doubled, whilst social housing waiting lists rose by 500,000 families in ten years.

Over the next four years many disabled people will see a reduction in the overall value of their benefits, as well as specific reductions in the levels of housing benefit; unemployment benefit; the loss of disability living allowance (DLA), which contributes towards the - often significant - extra costs of living as a disabled person; as well as reduced access to social care services as a consequence of local government funding cuts.

The priority must be for more social rented housing, first to make good the loss in social housing stock that has occurred over the last 20 years, and then to urgently tackle the backlog.

Firstly, years of undersupply have made social housing an unattainable prospect for most.

Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, who chairs the state Assembly's committee on social services, urges New York to embrace a «proven long - term solution to our homelessness crisis by creating and adequately funding 35,000 units of supportive housing over the next 10 years.»

The Youth Foundation, a centre for social innovation, is hosting events at all three party conferences this year in the unusual location of local currey houses.

Years of low investment in social housing, lack of regulation of the Private Rented Sector, and the insecurity of shorthold tenancies has created a system where those who are struggling can fall too easily through the cracks.

In a Washington Times op - ed last year, Carson sharply criticized HUD's Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing program, designed to incentivize desegregation - based planning in the nation's cities, calling it a «mandated social - engineering scheme.»