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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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Banks Threaten Elderly Veterans With Foreclosure in the USA

Published in Tuesday September 18th, 2012 In In the media

September 18, 2012 Robert Moses (pictured above) is 92, an African American and a World War II Navy veteran. Don Baird is a couple of weeks shy of his 90th birthday, is scheduled for heart surgery next week, and is also a World War II veteran. Aside from being former servicemen, both men also share one […]

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Exposure: Young and Homeless in the US

Published in Monday September 3rd, 2012 In In the media

August 31st, 2012 By CRAIG BLANKENHORN SADLY for the children across America who are homeless today, neither presidential campaign is expected to pay much attention to them, with big policy speeches or new ideas about improving their situation. There are 1.6 million homeless children in the United States. I want to be the witness to this, […]

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Post-Katrina Reforms in New Orleans Continue to Disenfranchise African-Americans, Poor

Published in Friday August 31st, 2012 In Opinion

August 29, 2012 Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans has become a laboratory for government reforms. But the processes through which those experiments have been carried out have rarely been transparent or democratic, and they have often been divisive, pitting new residents against those who grew up here, rich against poor, and white against […]

Hurricane Isaac soaks Gulf Coast and tests New Orleans levees

Published in Wednesday August 29th, 2012 In In the media

Hurricane Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans on Wednesday, but the multibillion-dollar barriers built to protect the city itself after the 2005 Katrina disaster were not breached, officials said. Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said about 2,000 residents of the area had been ordered to evacuate but only about half were confirmed to have gotten out before Isaac made landfall late on Tuesday.

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In Small Town in the US Hit by a Storm: Hope, Despair and a Mudfest

Published in Monday August 27th, 2012 In In the media

August 26, 2012 By NOAH ROSENBERG One house on Main Street here is not like the others. It seems to twist, stretch and taunt the fine line between hope and despair that has inextricably woven itself into the town fabric over the past year. This house, with its dormer windows still intact, looms tall — too […]

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United States: UN expert calls for consultations with indigenous peoples over private land sale in Black Hills, South Dakota

Published in Thursday August 23rd, 2012 In News on the Rapporteurs

August 22nd, 2012 The United Nations Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, James Anaya, urged today the United States Government and the local and state authorities in South Dakota to address concerns expressed by the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples about an impending private land sale in the Black Hills region of the […]

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