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It’s that time of year again. We’re a week away from the winter solstice and that means the longest night of the year. It also means the night when homeless advocates across the land come to remember unhoused people who not only live on the street but...
by Everyday People In Crisis
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on Wed Dec 13, 2023 at 10:18 AM PST
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It’s the end of January and everyone in the homeless biz knows what that means. It’s time for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Point in Time (PIT) count. What’s the PIT? That’s a twenty-four-ish hour period, on a day in very...
by Everyday People In Crisis
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on Fri Jan 27, 2023 at 02:38 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame and jck. Alumni ...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Jul 19, 2022 at 08:59 PM PDT
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On June 19, 2022, John Oliver presented an investigative show on RENT in America, but unlike most of his shows, the RENT piece didn’t go nearly far enough. Last Week Tonight RENT can be viewed on HBO MAX (with subscription) or on YouTube. Noticeably...
by annie em
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on Thu Jun 23, 2022 at 11:22 AM PDT
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Via the 403rd Wing, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, a report on a May 18 Interagency presidential briefing ahead of the start of Hurricane Season. Here’s the part most people will want to know first, from the end of the article: The official NOAA...
by xaxnar
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on Tue May 24, 2022 at 06:38 AM PDT
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A Black Cincinnati family has attained legal counsel and filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development after detailing in the Cincinnati Enquirer a heartbreaking but all-too-common encounter with racism selling their home....
by Lauren Sue
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on Wed Sep 15, 2021 at 08:36 AM PDT
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Maybe Guam… they got remarkable places in the Pacific. www.rawstory.com/… 'Why not leave office too?': Lindsey Graham buried for boasting he'll flee DC to avoid infrastructure vote Critics of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) are ready to bid him goodbye and...
by ca cokz
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on Sun Jul 18, 2021 at 10:53 AM PDT
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After a multi-year program of developing new safety regulations that would protect poor and elderly Americans in section 8 housing, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has decided to just say “no” … to safety. As in, after spending all this...
by Mark Sumner
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on Wed Jul 14, 2021 at 12:23 PM PDT
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A new report paints a grim picture of segregation in America. Not only is the United States nowhere near a truly desegregated society, in the last 30 years residential segregation has actually ...
by Hunter
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on Mon Jul 05, 2021 at 07:00 AM PDT
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A New York Times story on the ongoing effects of Team Trump's spectacular mismanagement of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is notable for two reasons. First, because of a seeming unanimity in assigning blame: Everyone involved who...
by Hunter
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on Mon Jun 21, 2021 at 10:57 AM PDT
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Donald Trump’s Department of Housing and Urban Development secretary, Ben Carson, proposed a rule that would permit single-sex homeless shelters that receive taxpayer funding to discriminate against transgender people. As an example, the policy would...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Fri Apr 23, 2021 at 09:36 AM PDT
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A pair of just-issued reports show just how bad “government” was under Donald Trump. A HUD inspector general’s report shows how funds already allocated by Congress to assist in hurricane relief for Puerto Rico were delayed by by a series of Trump...
by Mark Sumner
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on Thu Apr 22, 2021 at 11:22 AM PDT
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The Biden administration has its hands full just undoing the damage of the Trump years, but it is doing the work. The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is moving to roll back two key Trump-era housing discrimination policies, emphasis...
by Laura Clawson
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on Tue Apr 13, 2021 at 11:58 AM PDT
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Politico is reporting that former HUD regional administrator Lynne Patton has been fined $1000 and barred from serving in federal office for four years for using government resources to produce a rather bizarre video for the 2020 Republican National...
by Crashing Vor
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on Tue Apr 06, 2021 at 10:23 AM PDT
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Over a half-century ago, and only seven days after the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President Lyndon Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act (FHA). The law banned discrimination in the renting, financing, or purchasing of a home...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Fri Mar 26, 2021 at 06:29 AM PDT
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As expected, two of Biden’s cabinet nominees are one step closer to confirmation this evening. The cloture motion to end debate on Marcia Fudge’s nomination to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development passed 69 to 30, with one member, Kevin Cramer...
by Mark Lippman
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on Tue Mar 09, 2021 at 05:32 PM PST
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Some of President-elect Joe Biden’s less thrilling Cabinet picks emerged Tuesday night: Tom Vilsack, the former Iowa governor and former agriculture secretary, for agriculture secretary; and Rep. Marcia Fudge as housing and urban development...
by Laura Clawson
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on Wed Dec 09, 2020 at 05:48 AM PST
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How to help LGBTQ youth? Use the correct pronouns, let trans folks use the right bathrooms, and more Under the Trump administration, we’ve seen repeated attempts to whittle down the rights of the LGBTQ community, and especially those of�transgender folks. Whether it was the administration trying ...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon Sep 07, 2020 at 02:40 PM PDT
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At the final night of the Republican National Convention, a two-minute clip aired attacking Bill de Blasio’s housing policy. Watch it here. The video featured four tenants at the Frederick Douglass Houses, a New York Housing Authority project. But...
by Darrell Lucus
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on Fri Aug 28, 2020 at 06:22 PM PDT
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It’s no surprise that the current occupant of the White House is running for reelection on racism. Given his track record, it would be a surprise if he weren’t. Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric has always centered on fearmongering around crime, going...
by Ian Reifowitz
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on Sat Aug 22, 2020 at 06:59 AM PDT
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