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3 weeks ago |
shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Lara Heard |Shelby R. King |Miriam Axel Lute
What’s Happened With Housing Since Trump Came Into Office Our running list of major federal housing actions since Jan. 20. Photo by Douglas Rissing via iStockphoto On April 30, we published a roundup, organized by category, of the major housing and community development–related actions and changes we’d seen in the first 100 days of this administration.
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1 month ago |
shelterforce.org | Miriam Axel-Lute |Lara Heard |Shelby R. King |Miriam Axel Lute
The last 100 days have been—to make an incredible understatement—overwhelming. On every front, a radical administration has not only shifted the political orientation of the government, as is expected with a change of leadership, but departed from the underlying laws, norms, and processes that have defined the country for its entire existence. The pace and volume of change has, intentionally, made it hard to focus.
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1 month ago |
shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King
The Housing Choice Voucher program, better known as Section 8, helps low-income renters afford private-market housing by restricting their portion of the monthly rent to 30 percent of their income. The federal government pays the remainder. The program is run by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), which transfers its portion of the rent to local public housing authorities (PHAs) each month. The PHAs then pay landlords directly.
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1 month ago |
shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King
Immigrant communities in the United States are on edge. And rightly so—President Donald Trump’s racist rhetoric and draconian deportation policies are wreaking havoc on folks’ sense of security. As a result of the fear mongering, families are going into hiding, says Adriana Quintero, a leader at The Family Center/La Familia, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the immigrant community in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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2 months ago |
shelterforce.org | Shelby R. King
Review Neighborhood Change Watching a play about race, gentrification, and community set in a fictional South Chicago neighborhood in 1959 (Act 1) and 2009 (Act 2) while living through 2025 feels a little quaint.
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