Basically, what happened is that they get rid of the vast majority of people who were on the public housing loans.
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So for them to now claim that they understand the public housing crisis to me is just not right if - a cover for that.
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"People are resistant to change, " says Jerry Brown of HUD, adding that demolishing and renovating the public housing is a step toward improving it, and ultimately helping people.
"It doesn't stop, it just doesn't stop, " said Juana Joynes, a 44-year-old who grew up in Forest Houses, the public housing complex where Lloyd was shot to death.
That's what happened to a little more than half a million dollars for the public housing authority in North Platte, Nebraska, a city about halfway between Denver and Omaha.
Awkwardly, though, Rosanna Wong, the head of the public-housing authority, announced the next day that she would put up 16, 000 public-sector flats for rent rather than for sale, and that she would ensure cheaper loans for home buyers.
There is no breakdown between public and private sector activity for the second quarter, but the first quarter numbers show public housing output down 18% on the year, and public non-housing output (schools, for example) down 21% on the first quarter of 2011.
On this trip through their old neighborhood, Slab passes the vacated public housing that minted the rapper and other local stars.
The public-housing authority confirmed that the 21 recent cases of intimidation they have dealt with are of Catholics by Protestants.
Evictions have risen fourfold since 1996, as owners seek to take advantage of demand to install tenants ready to pay higher rents, and the stock of cheaper housing has dwindled, with the demolition of five public housing projects in the city adding to the pressure.
For sheer size, the Bronx public housing project where Justice Sonia Sotomayor grew up tops the list.
According to Mr Hoodless, the principle of the allocation of public housing on the basis of need would not change, although it would be carried out by a new body.
One example: Conchy Bretos of Miami, one of the inaugural Purpose Prize winners in 2006 for her work creating the first public housing project to bring assisted living services to its residents.
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Much of the rise in housing prices was the result of public policies that increased the demand for housing.
Jacob (2003) found that moving due to the demolition of public housing buildings had no impact on the academic achievement of younger children on a variety of outcome measures, including test scores, grades and retention.
And here in New York, the Recovery Act is allowing the weatherization of public housing projects as it is all over the country.
But that's not the same as living on the grounds of public housing, which has long given shelter to the city's poorest residents.
One-by-one the Bahaus-inspired public housing blocks built in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s in cities such as Saint Louis and Chicago have been demolished.
Harold Smith, a resident of the Amsterdam Houses, a public housing development across the street from Damrosch Park, said he simply wants the park returned to the people who live nearby, so children have a place to play.
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"We see it as a win-win for both residents and housing authorities, " says Donna White, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the federal agency that oversees public housing.
It is the one that was nurtured on the rugged terrain of the Fowler Homes Public Housing Development.
It launched the service in public housing estates, using a microwave system that could be installed quickly but carries only a limited number of channels.
At Campos Plaza in Alphabet City, a pair of brick towers near the East River, about 200 public housing residents gathered at a public meeting to hear about the proposal, with many listening on headphones to simultaneous translation in Spanish, Russian and Mandarin.
The Public Accounts Committee has accused the Housing Executive of being "out of control" in the way it managed maintenance contracts.
On Friday, Mr. Thompson went to the Isaacs Houses, a public-housing development near the transfer station site, surrounded himself with a racially diverse audience and demanded an apology.
The authority's data mirror estimates from the Housing and Development Board, which showed prices of resold public housing rising 1.3% quarter-to-quarter in the April-June period, a reversal of the slowdown in price growth in the previous two quarters.
She used the innovative approach being delivered through the i2i programme to secure regeneration benefits from public investment in the housing sector as an example of good practice.
New orders for public housing were down 41% on the previous year, and new public sector orders outside housing were 42% lower than a year before.
For instance, in the Gautreaux Programme, an experiment to combat racial discrimination in Chicago's public housing in the late 1970s, poor blacks were given vouchers to move to the white suburbs.
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