Sentences with phrase «thousands of abandoned properties»

Cities like Philadelphia and Detroit are embracing ideas like community gardens, as they struggle to reinvent themselves after the closure of many factories and mills leaving the city with thousands of abandoned properties.

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-- «California's housing crisis is so bad, families are squatting abandoned homes just to survive,» by Mother Jones» Bryan Schatz: T» he right to adequate housing — not just four walls and a roof, but «a safe and secure home and community in which to live in peace and dignity» — is decreed by the United Nations, but you wouldn't know it by looking around California, where nearly a quarter of the nation's homeless people live... In Oakland, where buyers routinely offer hundreds of thousands of dollars over asking prices, there are nearly four vacant properties for every homeless person.

Eatontown, New Jersey (August 2nd 2017)-- The tumultuous flooding in Texas has not only destroyed property, homes and buildings but has left thousands of animals lost, injured displaced or abandoned.

Taking as it's source a single image from her landmark artwork ex libris (2010 - 2012), which encompasses a salvaged history stemming from an archive of thousands of books belonging to the Palestinians which were looted in 1948 and now sit in the Jewish National Library at Hebrew University in Jerusalem where they are catalogued under A.P (Abandoned Property).

Six thousand of these books are kept and catalogued at the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem under the designation «A.P.» (Abandoned Property).

«We realized that there were tens of thousands of government - owned properties that are vacant and abandoned that are not bringing in any tax revenue,» says Jennifer Shockley, assistant director of public policy and political affairs at the Pennsylvania Association of REALTORS ®.