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Third brother sentenced in public housing fraud case
A former Los Angeles public housing official was sentenced Monday to 51 months in federal prison for his role in defrauding the city of more than $500,000 with the help of two brothers. Victor Taracena, 41, was also ordered to pay the Housing Authority...Tags: Politics, Google+, Bribery, Lawyers, Justice System
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Brothers sentenced to federal prison for public housing fraud scheme
Two Burbank brothers were each sentenced Monday to nearly two years in federal prison for conspiring to steal more than $500,000 that was intended for public housing for the disabled, according to the U.S. Attorney General’s Office. In addition...Tags: Politics, FBI, Bribery, Lawyers, Justice System
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Demand for affordable housing greater than available units
The need for affordable housing in the city continues to outpace availability, officials say, even with new developments in the pipeline. The Burbank Housing Corp., a nonprofit housing developer created in 1997, provides affordable housing opportunities...Tags: Chicago Housing Authority
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With last-minute reprieve, school gets chance to mend divided neighborhood
Manierre Elementary School lives squeezed between worlds. Black and white. Rich and poor. Chicago's past and its ambition. Walter Burnett, the neighborhood's alderman, lives squeezed between those worlds as well, and on Thursday, the day after...
Tags: Politics, Marshall Field, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Near North Side
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AHFC Seeks Comments on Smoke-Free Public Housing Units
Channel 2 NewsThe Alaska Housing Finance Corp. is seeking comments on a plan to ban smoking in more than 600 of its public housing units. Comments are being taken through June 15. The smoke-free policy, if enacted by AHFC, would take effect Aug. 1. It would...Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Social Issues
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Why is there a double standard?
Hang in there Councilman Sinanyan! Why should your comments made on the Internet years ago matter to the public when a conflict of interest by sitting council members went unchallenged at the voting booth in 2013? In 2009, council members Friedman,...Tags: Science and Technology, Politics, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Local Elections
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Housing security unit disbanded, employees laid off
Baltimore's housing office has disbanded its security unit, laying off seven sworn police officers, the agency said Thursday. The duties of the Lease Enforcement Unit — which investigates criminal activity in public housing to determine if a...Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Baltimore Housing
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Suspicions fire racial tensions
Gina Blandin has a theory about what caused the flooding disaster that befell New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck last August, an idea that has little to do with engineering studies or physical evidence and everything to do with the poisonous...Tags: Politics, Media Industry, Alphonso Jackson, Liberty Bank, Floods
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Mossburg wrong on housing vouchers
As the legislative chair of the Maryland Association of Housing and Redevelopment Agencies, which represents the agencies that actually administer the Section 8 rental assistance program, it was disturbing to read the distortions in Marta Mossburg's...Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Housing and Urban Planning, Rentals, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Section 8 housing is a nightmare for landlords
In a recent letter to the editor, Johns Hopkins professor Stefanie DeLuca recently suggested that many landlords refuse to rent to people with Section 8 housing vouchers because they are unfairly prejudiced against those prospective tenants ("Mossburg...Tags: Section 8 (housing), Chicago Housing Authority
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State shouldn't let landlords discriminate
As we recently celebrated the 45th anniversary of the federal Fair Housing Act, it is significant to note that the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan regions are among the most segregated in America. Last month, the Lawyers' Committee for Civil...Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Section 8 (housing), Washington, DC, Chicago Housing Authority
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Housing growth slowing around CTA, Metra rail stations, researchers say
Despite the high-selling prices of residences located near public transit, the creation of new housing has lagged in sections of the Chicago area near CTA and Metra rail stations, compared with more robust development in transit zones in New York,...
Tags: Politics, Interior Policy, Metra, Housing and Urban Planning, Chicago Transit Authority
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May 23, 2013
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May 21, 2013
|Story| Glendale News Press
May 17, 2013
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May 8, 2013
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May 6, 2013
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May 12, 2013
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May 5, 2013
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May 6, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
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