housing – Page 25 – People's World

Gun control alone can’t curb violence

January 7, 2016 By Jesse Jackson

Dealing with entrenched poverty costs real money, but less than we spend on the police, jails, drugs, alcoholism, and chronic illness - the dysfunction that comes from poverty.

HUD: Arrests cannot be used to deny affordable housing

January 7, 2016 By Lawrence Albright

Governmental agencies have begun tilting toward less incarceration, and more restorative justice and rehabilitation.

Rezoning plan will cause more displacement in New York

November 19, 2015 By Ava Farkas And Sara Newman

The plan is generating resistance from community members, who say that it will usher in more displacement than truly affordable housing.

A people’s agenda: Reflections of a progressive’s first year in office

October 26, 2015 By Megan Ellyia Green

At City Hall the voice of the people, and the engagement of the public, is often an afterthought: We need to get our priorities straight.

NYC union pension systems to invest $150m in affordable city housing

October 23, 2015 By PAI

Union labor will build the housing in an economically targeted investment program in all five boroughs.