Article: Where Are Poor People to Live? Transforming Public Housing Communities.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: HOUSE APPROVES PUBLIC HOUSING SHAKE-UP DEMS' MOVE ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 10, 1996 ;     604 words ... ... approved far-reaching changes in public housing programs after defeating a Democratic effort to cap rents for poor people who receive federal housing aid ... Give the children who live in public housing hope. Give them a chance ...

Transcript: Revamping the Public Housing System in the U.S.
NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  May 26, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... situations don't exist in many public housing developments throughout our ... income people living in public housing. There will be families making $40,000 living in public housing and poor people will be thrown into the street ...

Article: HOUSE OKS PUBLIC HOUSING BILL OVERHAUL WOULD MAKE ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  May 15, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... a larger share of public housing for extremely poor people. It opposes the ... larger rents. Local public housing authorities own and operate public housing, with federal subsidies ... housing program helps poor people pay for rent in the ...

Article: GOP seeks to repeal public housing bill Shift from ...
The Boston Globe;  April 30, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... families and elders in public housing," Brooke said ... in order to keep public housing affordable for poor people." A House committee ... start serving fewer poor people, Congress will ... This could make public housing almost indistinguishable ...

Article: HUD chief urges veto of public-housing ...
The Washington Times;  May 18, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... housing. The median income of those in public housing today is about $6,500. "The House ... insult to injury: It seeks to improve public housing by excluding poor people and increasing public housing eligibility for people making $35 ...

Article: Crime war plotted for public housing
The Boston Globe;  February 5, 1994 ;     304 words ...WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration announced a nationwide campaign against crime in public housing yesterday, saying poor people are living in units so dangerous that police will not patrol them. The new initiative, dubbed ...

Article: Public housing's future debated in House. (Housing ...
Nation's Cities Weekly;  May 5, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... provisions which would provide public housing authorities (PHAs) needed ... the risky block granting of public housing provided in H.R.2 and would keep public housing on the side of poor people and their children." NLC ...