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Judge Rules In Favor Of The City and Affordable Housing Project |
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| A Colorado district court judge ruled in favor for Aspen and for a developer in a lawsuit that was filed by neighbors who did not want the Boomerang low-income housing project built. | |
Kobe Bryant Helps Raise Awareness About Homelessness In Los Angeles |
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| Recently, a new channel TakePart TV that was created by Participant Media , has joined with Kobe Bryant, NBA superstar, to produce a video web series that will focus on homelessness in Los Angeles, California. The video web series will have five parts and can be watched on YouTube | |
Kroger's Atlanta Division Holiday Food Drive Raises $478,000 |
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| From November 18th through December 24th of last year, Kroger grocery stores sold icons that had a value of $1, $3, or $5 to their customers. The money raised from these store sales will be given to For Feeding America Food Banks | |
Lack Of Affordable Rental Housing In Connecticut |
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| A new report by Partnership, an advocacy group for Hartford affordable-housing, stated there is a need for more low-income housing for renters in Connecticut. Renters are now facing rising costs | |
Las Vegas Homeless Population Seek Shelter As Weather Gets Colder |
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| More than 9,000 homeless individuals in Clark County, on any given night seek for a place to sleep at a homeless shelter. The homeless shelters in Las Vegas are already near maximum capacity and this is before winter has begun | |
Lincoln County In Oregon Has Received $22,348 For Shelter And Emergency Food Programs |
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| The federal funds are given to high-need areas throughout the United States. A local board will decide how the funds are to be dispersed in the county | |
Local Food Pantries Experience Increased Demand As Donations Get Smaller |
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| After the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays, many local food pantries have to prepare for what is typically called the dry spell. This when donations dry up. Many food bank organizations were overflowing with food donations during the holidays but now they face shortages | |
Long Waiting List For Public Housing In Washington D.C. |
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| Poor families, in Washington D.C., who have applied for housing assistance vouchers will actually have to wait for years and for some, decades. Now, the Housing Authority (DCHA) is thinking about closing the waiting list for vouchers and the timing couldn't be worse. Last year over 11,000 families applied and almost half of them were homeless | |
Long Waiting List For Vero Beach Homeless Family Center |
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| The family homeless shelter plans to open a new facility that will have 40 units. The cost to build the center will be approximately seven to ten million dollars | |
Louisiana Receives Federal Aid For Low-Income Housing |
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| Louisiana received over $8 million for disabled low-income rental assistance. The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced the funding today. The Louisiana Housing Corporation gets the funds for 200 units | |
Louisville Affordable Housing Trusts Receives $450,000 |
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| The fund in Kentucky is to be used to get low income housing back on the market and to keep people in their homes. For every one million dollars invested it will create 84 housing units | |
Low Income Housing Locations Still Not Ideal |
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| New study by Washington-based Poverty and Race Research Action Council (PRRAC) found that the federal housing assistance program does not place enough affordable housing near high quality schools | |
Low-Income Housing Accross The Nation Faces Budget Cuts |
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| The Department of Housing and Urban Development's budget will most likely be cut over the next ten years. This cut will affect even more families who are struggling to find housing they can afford | |
Low-Income Housing Waiting Opens In Seattle |
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| After nearly five years, the low-income housing waiting list has opened for the areas neediest residents. The Seattle Housing Authority is going to use the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher with a lottery system | |
Maine Hopes To Reopen Rockport's Mid-Coast Hospitality House |
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| The shelter closed two weeks ago and reasons for the closure are unclear at this time. The Maine State Housing Authority will try to get the shelter reopened soon because it is the only one in Knox County | |
Maine Needs More Low-Income Housing |
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| There are nearly 40,000 families that make less than $18,500 a year and who qualify for low-income housing. Yet, there are only about 20,000 low-income housing units in the state | |
Maine's State Housing Authority Says No To Smoking |
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| The agency recently stated that all low-incoming housing units that are not only built but financed by Maine's Low Income Housing Tax Credit will have to be 100% smoke-free units. They decided this because of the damage smoking and secondhand smoke can cause. | |
Manchester Homeless Shelter Celebrates Veterans |
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| New Horizons sponsored a dinner last Sunday night for veterans. The non-profit agency provides veterans services, especially homeless veterans. In its first month of service, 14 veterans have been assisted | |
Marin County Has Less Emergency Housing |
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| Homeward Bound of Marin has plans to relocate their family emergency housing it rents at the Motel 6 in San Rafael. Families will be housed at a house they own located in San Rafael. Now they will only be able to accommodate nine families | |
Massachusetts Homeless Will Benefit From Revised Emergency and Homeless Shelter Regulations |
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| The new regulations that regulate the eligibility of families seeking emergency shelter are going to filed this Friday. One of the new rules will allow families who have lost their homes because of foreclosure to be immediately eligible for emergency shelter | |
Massachusetts Will Phase Out Housing Homeless Families In Hotels |
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| The state will end the program that houses homeless families as emergency shelters when there is no room at homeless shelters. The Residential Assistance for Families in Transition (RAFT) program will be used instead | |
Melrose Cooperative Bank Hosts A Fundraiser |
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| Give Melrose Co-op a "Like" on Facebook today. Bank officials announced that now until November 13th, they would donate up to $500 to A Servants Heart Food Pantry by donating $1 for each new "Like" they receive on their Facebook page or for every "Share" | |
Michigan Egg Farmers Donate Eggs |
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| Michigan Egg Farmers donated over 150,000 eggs to the Food Bank of Eastern Michigan. Egg farmers Farm Crest Food and Herbuck’s Poultry Ranch made this donation possible | |
Michigan Harvest Gathering Holds Fundraiser |
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| MidMichigan Health employees, and volunteers collected over 4,000 pounds of food, plus $2,815 for the month long fundraiser for Michigan Harvest Gathering food bank this year | |
Midwest Food Bank Receives Donation Of $9,000 |
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| Illinois Pork Producers Association, Soybean Growers Association, and Illinois Corn Marketing Board donated the funds. The funds will be used to buy 13,000 of pork because many food pantries need the protein | |