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CoreLogic: 58,000 Homes Lost to Foreclosure in October in the US

Published in Tuesday December 4th, 2012 In In the media

December 3rd, 2012 There were 58,000 foreclosures completed in the United States during the month of October, CoreLogic reported Monday with the release of its latest National Foreclosure Report. October’s tally was down 17 percent from last year when 70,000 foreclosures were completed during the month.   On a month-over-month basis, completed foreclosures fell 25 percent. CoreLogic […]

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Free Webinar: “The Human Right to Housing: A Report Card on U.S. Policy”

Published in Tuesday December 4th, 2012 In Mobilisation and agenda

FREE WEBINAR  The Human Right to Housing: A Report Card on U.S. Policy Monday, December 10 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. EST On Monday, December 10, in commemoration of Human Rights Day, the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty will be hosting a free webinar on U.S. compliance with the human right to housing. In June 2011, the […]

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Hurricane Sandy’s Rising Costs

Published in Friday November 30th, 2012 In Opinion

November 27, 2012 The New York Times Editorial Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s latest request for federal aid to help New York recover from Hurricane Sandy presents a shattering picture of what a giant storm can do to a dense metropolitan area. The total price tag, he said, would be more than $42 billion: $33 billion to repair […]

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Tipping the Scales in Housing Court

Published in Friday November 30th, 2012 In Opinion

November 29, 2012 by MATTHEW DESMOND IT’S easy to tell who’s going to win in eviction court. On one side of the room sit the tenants: men in work uniforms, mothers with children in secondhand coats, confused and crowded together on hard benches. On the other side, often in a set-aside space, are not the landlords […]

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A Vacant Lot Offers Refugees a Taste of Home

Published in Tuesday November 27th, 2012 In In the media

The refugees are accidental farmers in an unlikely urban field that is part of an ambitious plan to transform vacant land. The lot sits on one of the busiest corners of this expansive city, across from an English pub, near a light-rail stop and in sight of the glimmering high rises that punctuate downtown.

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U.S. Asks New York Landlords for Vacant Apartments to House Displaced Families

Published in Monday November 12th, 2012 In In the media

November 11, 2012 City, state and federal officials are trying to assemble a pool of vacant apartments in New York City that could supplement the city’s shelter system in housing hundreds if not thousands of families displaced by storm damage and power outages. Although many people have clung to their homes despite having neither heat nor […]

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For many, D.C. housing waiting list offers little more than hope

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 04, 2012 Ceola Lewis has been waiting a long time. In 1975, Lewis signed up for the District’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, which used to be known as Section 8. At the time, she was 19, living with her mother and working a string of low-wage jobs to provide for herself and her newborn daughter. […]

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With $200 Million in U.S. Housing Aid, Officials Begin Relocating the Displaced

Published in Tuesday November 6th, 2012 In In the media

November 05, 2012 Officials said they were working on Monday to provide temporary housing for people displaced by Hurricane Sandy despite confusion and conflicting accounts of how many needed places to live. “We don’t really know yet, in truth,” Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo said at a briefing, adding that the estimates ranged from 10,000 to 40,000 […]

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Housing Nightmare Looms in Wake of Storm in New York

Published in Monday November 5th, 2012 In In the media

November 04, 2012 New York City officials said on Sunday that they faced the daunting challenge of finding homes for as many as 40,000 people who were left homeless after the devastation of last week’s storm, a situation that the city’s mayor, Michael R. Bloomberg, compared to New Orleans’s after Hurricane Katrina. The mayor said that […]

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Occupy the DC Council: A Homeless and Poor People’s Town Hall Meeting

Published in Monday October 29th, 2012 In Social movement news

October 29, 2012 Homeless advocates, non-profits and the faith-based community from DC will mobilize at least 1,000 homeless people – abused mothers with their children, working men who can’t afford housing, disabled people, veterans and the mentally ill – to demand that the mayor and the DC Council end homelessness. Not by accident during the […]

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