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May 2010

Tuesday May 18, 2010

Bill Quigley and Tony Romano: We Call These Projects Our Home

National - Public housing in this country is rapidly becoming endangered, and with it, the lives of low-income people. Public housing provides a safety net for the working poor and those on a fixed income, which is critical in today's housing market considering that as of 2008, there was no county in the U.S. where an individual working 40 hours a week at minimum wage could afford a one-bedroom apartment at fair market rent.Read More >

Tuesday May 18, 2010

Residents and Tenants Call for Expansion and Maintenance of Public Housing

National - As Congress is poised to consider new legislation to drastically reform public housing, residents and advocates released a new report calling for Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to strengthen and expand public housing.Read More >

Tuesday May 11, 2010

Low-Income NY'ers & Elected Officials Call on City to Convert Condos in Low-Income Areas into Affordable Housing

New York City - Harlem - Six primarily low-income neighborhoods across the city are home to 4,092 empty housing units, on the market for an average of nearly $2 million, as New York City continues to face record homelessness and increasingly unavailable low-income housing, according to new data released today by Right to the City-NYC (RTTC-NYC). The report, People without Homes, & Homes without People, follows RTTC-NYC's fall count of vacant condos in these six neighborhoods.Read More >

Monday May 10, 2010

For Drug Users, Coalition Serves as Voice in Albany

New York City - In a borrowed room in Chelsea on a recent Monday night, 13 people sat under fluorescent lights discussing the time-honored art of lobbying and the cold calculus of political persuasion. And for this unusual organization, the typical difficulty of being heard among the vast jumble of special interests clamoring for attention in Albany is complicated by the fact that it represents drug users, past and present.Read More >

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