Posted on January 9, 2009. Filed under: HOUSING, Mothers in Poverty, The New Depression, poverty and government | Tags: benefits, bill, check, children, congress, contact, dc, deep poverty, depression, donovan, economic, economic stimulus, economy, families, family, finance, foreclosure, funding, help, homeless, house, HOUSING, hud, legislation, mothers, needy, new, obama, pay, policy, poor, poverty, poverty level, program, recession, rent, renters, representatives, section 8, senate, senator, shaun, single, social, subsidized, support, tenants, unemployment, voucher, washington, welfare |
I REALLY HOPE SO! according to this article, there are requests being formally made to congress for big funding to be a part of the new bailout and economic recovery bills.
The article says something about the housing provisions being only a fraction of one percent of the entire bill. WOW. I think we should [...]
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Posted on August 16, 2008. Filed under: HOUSING, Mothers in Poverty | Tags: air conditioner, amen, arthritis, backyard, brother, code, day, divorce, dysfunctional, emergency, emt, family, fire, first aid, green, heat, heat stroke, hot, hud, husband, jesus, kids, lord, love, medical, milky way, mom, my, need, night, outdoor, overnight, please, prayer, siblings, sister, sky, sleep under the stars, sleeping bag, sleepover, stars, stepdad, stroke, summer, universe, yard |
When I was a kid, we used to do that. We were an upper middle class family, with 4 kids. Not perfect, it was a dysfunctional blended family with a stepdad and half-siblings. But, we lived in the country, on a nice acreage, in a new house. It had a big front yard, [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2008. Filed under: HOUSING | Tags: activism, activist, benefit, choice, congress, entrepreneur, flip, foreclosure, good, governance, help, homelessness, HOUSING, housing authority, hud, investor, lease, legislature, mortgage, option, poor, poverty, reform, renter, rights, section 8, society, subsidized, subsidy, voucher |
The foreclosures are piling up, investors and middle class homeowners are losing their speculative real estate investments and even primary residences. Meanwhile, section 8 renters have been unable to find anyone willing to rent to them. A couple of years ago, the statistics show that somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 percent of section 8 [...]
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