Housing and Poverty News
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Services to be offered include health and dental screenings, VA benefit assistance and information, housing referrals, social service and financial ...
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We share a commitment to an economy that enables people to live decent, dignified livesThese are historic times for our country. The biggest economic crisis since the 1930s is generating new political alliances. The task for Labour is to define, shift and then occupy a new centre ground in British p[...]
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Crumbling flats provided gritty, urban backdrop for Clint Eastwood film and TV shows including The Bill and SpooksLater this year when bulldozers begin to raze the sprawling Heygate housing estate in south London, few will mourn. The occasional remaining fan of early 70s Soviet-style brutalism may d[...]
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Beyond the hype about ambitious women on their way to billionaire status, there are many struggling just to get byThe cover of this week's Newsweek proclaims Chinese women the "power sex", and promises to reveal the secret behind their "overwhelming ambition". Apparently Chinese women are far more s[...]
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. Larry Snyder, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the social service network committed to reducing poverty by 50 percent by 2020, issued the following statement today at the beginning of
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A Liberian based in the United States, Mrs. Rosaline Kingston Bonsi, has expressed a pathetic condition surrounding the learning environment of Liberian students and has called partnership with already existing schools and orphanage homes to help them
22 hours ago
The Institute for Fiscal Studies made a number of mistakes in its analysis of the coalition's plansLabour politicians seized on an Institute for Fiscal Studies report last month which described the emergency budget as "clearly regressive". Unfortunately, some of the IFS's conclusions and the reporti[...]
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Disabled models at Debenhams; alcohol consumption; plus, the best of the blogsFollow Society Guardian on TwitterFollow Patrick Butler on TwitterSign up to Society Daily email briefingToday's top Society storiesUK sees largest fall in alcohol consumption in 60 yearsG20 pathologist suspended for misco[...]
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Former prime minister wrong to say Labour should not have let public debt build up during 2000s, leadership contender saysEd Balls today rounded on Tony Blair after the former prime minister claimed Labour had been wrong to allow the structural deficit to build up during the last decade.The Labour l[...]
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...ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rev. Larry Snyder, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, the social service network committed to reducing poverty by 50 percent by 2020, issued the following statement today at the beginning...
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UNEMPLOYED Haringey residents living in temporary accommodation can boost their chances of gaining employment through a new job skills clinic. Jobseekers on Haringey Council's social housing register can drop in to the weekly clinic every Wednesday
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Falkirk Council's to committ around 10 million pounds to build new affordable housing over the next 3 years. It'll see a hundred and 32 new homes built across the area with the help of 3 million from the Scottish Government. To help meet the needs of
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Poverty has a much bigger impact on the educational performance of white British pupils than on any other ethnic group, according to studies. Poor white British pupils are falling far behind their richer classmates from the same background at primary
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A current disincentive for households whose circumstances have improved to voluntarily move on from social housing is the lack of security of tenure available in the private rented sector. Households would have more confidence to move if they felt they
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I was surprised to read about ‘the official qualification’ for the role of tenant inspector (‘School for sleuths’ Inside Housing, 6 August). This was news to me, especially given that the Tenant Participation Advisory Service has been
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The news that the government is to axe its rough sleeping and homeless prevention advisors, although regrettable, is not surprising (Inside Housing, 30 July 2010). I believe strongly that there needs to be more emphasis on local expertise and services to
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I attended the Chartered Institute of Housing conference this year and having heard Grant Shapps’ speech on ‘wanting to see homes built where people wanted and needed them’, I asked Mr Shapps if there was anything he could do to assist the West of
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Housing minister Grant Shapps has announced that while the new regulatory regime for social housing is to be preserved, he proposes to abolish the Tenant Services Authority that devised it. In the absence of any parallel indication of how it is proposed
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A HOMELESS conference has kick-started a drive to give youngsters more say in developing services. More than 80 service users and staff from both sides of the river attended the event at The Stobart Stadium. After the meeting Halton Borough Council said
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Evergreen Recruitment Specialists Ltd 02 Sep 2010 Reference ERS220 Location Essex Sectors Architecture - Design, Local Authority - Housing Associations Disciplines Architectural - Architects Position Type Permanent Position Salary Up to £65k + Package
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Members of the public have submitted 1,600 suggestions about how the government could save money through housing cuts. The ideas were submitted as part of a Treasury initiative in which it asked for ideas about how the government could reduce the £156
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Does increased lending bode well for the property market? Justin Sumner takes his monthly look at how wider economic forces are coming to bear on housing 14 September 2009 Is the recession ending, or are price rises a ‘false dawn’. Justin Sumner,
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During the heyday of the late 1990s, low-cost credit poured into social housing projects. But with the financial downturn, scarcity prevails and development prospects for affordable housing have narrowed considerably. Furthermore, shocks in global
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Most people associate me with banging the drum for more council housing and for local authorities to build those homes. Readers of Inside Housing might remember that on 11 May 2009 I told the last government what I thought of their laughably small £100
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A new iPhone app lets you ‘adopt’ a young homeless person. Anita Pati finds out how it’s leading to a rise in donations A homeless young man in a red hoodie has just given me the thumbs up after licking out a sandwich pack I gave him. He’s