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#public-housing

Jessica Katz, the city's chief housing officer, is stepping down from her post at the beginning of July, City Hall confirmed in a statement to amNewYork Metro Wednesday afternoon.Katz's departure, which was first reported by the news site Gothamist, comes as the city struggles to find shelter for tens of thousands of migrants who've arrived since last year and continues to deal with a pre-existing housing crisis where rents are on the rise and affordable units are in short supply.

Off the Hook Ep. 6-It Could All Be So Simple from NPQ on Vimeo.Meet Saphia, a young bell hooks fanatic trying desperately to build a good life in New York City.Constantly immersed in the latest idea she has discovered while reading hooks, Saphia is determined to figure out how to apply these liberatory ideals to her own life.

The minimum wage in Chicago is still not enough for many people to afford rental housing in 2023, a new report from Housing Action Illinois and the National Low Income Housing Coalition says.In theChicago metro area, which has the most expensive housing in the state, a person would need to earn $27.69 an hour working 40 hours a week, or about $57,600 a year, in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment, or work 85 hours a week if they make minimum wage.

Elected officials gathered with residents from Near South Side communities Monday to call for a new South Loop high school to be built at an alternative location.The demonstrators criticized Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Housing Authority for planning to build the school on CHA land that they say should be used for public housing.

The marquee component of the Page Street Neighborhood Way project was supposed to be the city's first raised intersection, also known as a speed table, planned for Page and Buchanan.In this configuration, pictured below in a rendering, the entire intersection is kept at sidewalk level to force motorists to slow down as they cross.

Advocates were promised a raised intersection at Page and Buchanan.Instead they got a pretty brick treatment



Page at Buchanan.Note the ramps bringing people down from the sidewalk to street level.Image: Jason Henderson
The marquee component of the Page Street Neighborhood Way project was supposed to be the city's first raised intersection, also known as a speed table, planned for Page and Buchanan.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced on Monday the appointment of Richard J. Monocchio to serve as its new principal deputy assistant secretary (PDAS) for Public and Indian Housing (PIH).Monocchio most recently served as executive director of the Housing Authority of Cook County, a role he served in for 12 years.

Millions of people are expected to take part in local elections across England, when polling stations open at 07:00 BST.About 8,000 councillors are being elected in 230 councils, as voters choose who they want to run services in their local area.Voters in Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough will also elect mayors.

Home Buying 'For us, we just feel so blessed to be able to live in the city that we grew up in.'All century-old homes tell great stories if you know what to look for.But one 114-year-old Colonial two-family in Roxbury tells a deeper story that can't be seen at a glance.It's the story of hardworking people of color using real estate to build generational wealth while providing a service to their community.

Young men like Dantrell Jelks remind Richard Blackmon Jr. of his son, who is serving time in federal prison for bank robbery.Which is why he treats every single young person he works with like one of his own."Every last one of the guys I've coached, I've treated them like they were him," life coach Blackmon, 60, told the Tribune.

What my high school director was actually reflecting was society's gender-based expectations of parental roles at the time (and perhaps still now), and the sentiment comes in such a slick package that it rings true even if it's not.Conversely, there is no neat categorization or adage for the single mother experience, but there sure is a lot of judgment.

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles was assessing the damage Tuesday from an apparent attack by hackers who are threatening to publish a vast store of the agency's data they claim to have seized.The breach surfaced Saturday when individuals who deploy the malware known as LockBit published screenshots representing what they claimed were 15 terabytes of data they have seized.

After a months-long nomination and consideration process - plus lifetimes of public service work - the winners of the 2022 David Prize have finally been announced, and five New Yorkers have each been awarded $200,000 in cash to boost their mission of making New York City better.Dozens of New Yorkers from across the five borough nominated each year.