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Housing Project in Oakland Fails to Start

Post author By admin
Post date July 24, 2015

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, a long-standing attempt to build affordable public housing near the Coliseum BART station in East Oakland is all but dead. Beginning in 2003, the plan was to turn a large parking lot near the light rail station into a housing village with shops. It was supposed to house 10,000 […]

Tags Affordable housing, charity, Oakland, philanthropy

Resources

Sequester Still Punishes the Poor

Post author By admin
Post date June 14, 2013

The failure of Congress to pass a budget is being felt by the poorest Americans, as cuts to subsidized housing groups continue. The Budget Control Act, commonly known as the sequester, has slashed a trillion dollars in federal funding to public programs across the board. The New York City Housing Authority, (NYCHA), the nation’s largest […]

Tags Affordable housing, house, Housing, New York, New York Housing Authority, NYCHA, poor, sequester

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