Judge O'k,s Alameda's Mass Evictions

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10/28/04 Tenant/Housing News...

Judge O'k,s Alameda's Mass Evictions!

The tenants of the Harbor Island Apartment complex are shocked that a judge has o'k'd the mass evictions taking place of 1,200 low-income renters of Alameda.... The tenants face a lawsuit against them by the Fifteen Group if they do not flee from their rental housing units by midnight, November 3... See story below...

Marin Housing non-profits may be being forced to sell housing that was meant to assist the poor because HUD pulled the plug on many of their Section 8 projects...

Last June, HUD shocked Marin County and it's affordable-housing groups by announcing that it was terminating Marin Housing Authority’s "Section 8 vouchers." It has been a huge loss to the poor, elderly, disabled and abused women of Marin County that were to be housed in those projects.

"Had HUD [not pulled the vouchers], we would not be here today," Lamar Turner, EAH’s project manager, told commissioners. "We had a project [with a budget] that balanced." See stories below...

Section 8 renters of Arizona face a nightmare due to HUD cutbacks... See story below,,,

Plus plenty of stories to show the face of homelessness...

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Harbor Island tenants must go

Alameda Times-Star - Oct 28
ALAMEDA -- The owner of Harbor Island Apartments can continue with plans to evict about 128 remaining tenants after a judge ruled Wednesday they won't be left homeless. U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup denied the City of Alamedas request for a preliminary injunction to stop the mass evictions taking place at the Harbor Island Apartment complex, stating that it failed to demonstrate the evictions would result in homelessness.

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http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~10859~2497083,00.html

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Assistance for rent cut $1 million
Many in Ariz. may face crisis

Carol Sowers Oct. 25, 2004
The Arizona Republic

A cut to a popular federal housing program may mean that more than 6,000 Arizona families who need help paying the rent could be booted out of their homes, forcing them to search for scarce affordable housing, officials say.

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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1025housing.html

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Planners endorse EAH pricing change By Jacob Resneck

Point Reyes Light - Oct 28
Marin County planning commissioners on Monday endorsed EAH’s request to amend its masterplan enabling the nonprofit developer to sell all seven of its cottages in its Point Reyes Station affordable-housing project at prevailing real estate-market prices.

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http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/oct28_04/eah.html

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Houses to sell at market value

Marin Independent Journal - Oct 26
The Ecumenical Association for Housing moved a step closer yesterday to selling seven new houses in Point Reyes Station - intended for low income buyers - at market rate prices, in order to preserve financing to build 27 affordable rental apartments there. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) stripped the project of 10 Section 8 housing vouchers. The vouchers - worth more than $1 million to EAH - would have subsidized rent revenues by paying the difference between the amount of rent that could be afforded by the tenants and the established fair market rent. The Point Reyes project wasn't the only one to lose its vouchers. HUD took 220 vouchers from more than a dozen Marin nonprofits. Betty Pagett, EAH's director of education and advocacy, said yesterday that some of the nonprofits are considering selling properties before they go into default on their mortgages.

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http://www.marinij.com/Stories/0,1413,234~24407~2492445,00.html

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Poet will read work chronicling homeless life

Boston Herald - Oct 28
Nick Flynn was 27 years old and working at the city's Pine Street Inn when he met his father for the first time since childhood. His father, Jonathan, had been evicted and became homeless for five years, spending many nights at the Hub shelter where his son was a caseworker.

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http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=51275

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Local News

Minnetonka Sun Sailor - Oct 28
The need for emergency housing funding from Intercongregation Communities Association has always been high for people living in poverty, but now the group says a new demographic is hitting hard times, the middle class.

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http://www.mnsun.com/story.asp?city=Minnetonka&story=146588

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Council wrangles over homeless

Toronto Star - Oct 28
Tough love or better shelters? The city's homeless were called embarrassing, frustrating, bad for tourism and lazy yesterday at city hall. But to Councillor Shelley Carroll, they are "heartbreaking.

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thestar.com

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News 14 Carolina/Homeless

News 14 Carolina - Oct 27
Several local agencies are reaching out to homeless veterans. Needy vets had the chance to participate in a stand down program in Raleigh Wednesday. “Stand down” is a military term referring to a time for active soldiers to rest and regain strength.

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http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=57748&SecID=2

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Salt Lake Tribune - Salt Lake Tribune Home Page

Salt Lake Tribune - Oct 27
A day after a proposed campus for the homeless drew sharp criticism at a public hearing, the Salt Lake Chamber killed the plan.

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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2434374

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Seattle City Council rejects hygiene center cost

Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Oct 27
City Council members balked yesterday at the $3.2 million price tag for a hygiene center and homeless shelter proposed to be built next to the city's emergency operations center.

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/196957_center27.html?source=rss

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Pittsburgh Housing Authority detective accused of animal cruelty

WNEP 16 - Oct 28
PITTSBURGH Police say a Pittsburgh Housing Authority officer neglected his dog. Police say they visited Darryl Adams' Pittsburgh home and found his German shepherd living outside in unsanitary conditions.

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http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=2492109

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The Call

The Woonsocket Call - Oct 28
WOONSOCKET -- Poet T.S. Eliot said April is the cruelest month, but he was wrong. It’s November -- at least for a group of homeless men who live at the Lucien Benoit House on Sayles Street.

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woonsocketcall.com

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Kanye, Common, Musiq & The X-ecutioners To Perform At Concert For Homelessness

Manhunt.com - Oct 27
Kanye West, Common, Musiq and The X-ecutioners will perform at The New Life Project Inaugural Concert, taking place November 5th at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. The concert celebrates the launch of The New Life Project, an organization whose goal is to end homelessness in the United States.

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http://www.manhunt.com/news/stories/1098915633.html

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Housing director wants answers

Monterey County Herald - Oct 26
Despite findings that repairing Rippling River housing for the disabled in Carmel Valley will cost far less than first estimated, its residents are still waiting to hear that they will be able to stay in their homes -- and a director of the county Housing Authority is waiting for answers about the contradictory estimates.

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http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/local/10017138.htm

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Garden cultivates hope for victims of domestic abuse, homelessness

San Mateo County Times - Oct 28
MENLO PARK -- Volunteers and residents at Haven Family House hope to grow more than just vegetables in the New Beginnings Garden.

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http://www.sanmateocountytimes.com/Stories/0,1413,87~11268~2498008,00.html

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Area students will sleep outside to better understand homelessness

Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch - Oct 28
On October 30, 2004, area students will be getting a feel of what it is like to be without a home.

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http://www.sleepyeyenews.com/articles/2004/10/28/features/feature2.txt

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$5 million awarded to help chronic homelessness in Tucson

KVOA.com - Oct 26
TUCSON, Ariz. Tucson has received five (m) million dollars in federal grants to help end chronic homelessness. Philip Mangano with the U-S Interagency Council on Homelessness says that recent studies show the chronically homeless make up about ten percent of the homeless population.

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http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=2479813

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Homelessness has many faces

Hampton Roads Daily Press - Oct 28
Crystal hit a wall this week. Tuesday, the 20-year-old single mother of two was being ousted from an apartment that wasn't even hers. Along for the rough ride is a 7-month-old daughter cradled in her lap and a 2-year-old son noshing on Goldfish crackers and candy corn at her feet.

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dailypress.com

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Reality check on homelessness

UW Daily - Oct 28
The stereotypic viewpoint of the homeless holds them as the failures of capitalism and the "American Dream."

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thedaily.washington.edu

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Family Action Team sets out to help area homeless

The Kentucky Standard - Oct 28
Nelson County is stranger to homelessness. Bardstown, especially, appeals to the transient, the out-of-work and the homeless because it is neat, and clean, and a nice place to live, according to Sister Mary Foeckler, Flaget Memorial Hospital Outreach.

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http://www.kystandard.com/articles/2004/10/28/news/news03.txt

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Arcata continues work on Homeless Services Plan

Times-Standard - Oct 28
ARCATA -- Karen "Fox" Olson is looking forward to the day when she'll be out of a job. Olson, executive director of Arcata House, wants homelessness to end in the city once and for all.

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http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2497192,00.html

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Main

West Bloomfield Eccentric - Oct 28
They've battled drug abuse, alcoholism, divorce, health problems and homelessness. But these hard-luck war veterans have started to reclaim their lives, and they will soon have a new home as they continue to strive to regain their independence.

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http://www.hometownlife.com/Westland/News.asp?pageType=Story&StoryID=62897&Section=Main

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7 for S.F. supervisor

San Francisco Chronicle - Oct 27
SAN FRANCISCO has no shortage of problems. City Hall is struggling to deal with budget shortfalls, homelessness and a flat economic climate. Against that backdrop, city voters will be choosing supervisors in seven of the 11 districts on Tuesday.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/27/EDGG79G48K1.DTL

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New gov't programme to address homelessness

The Jamaica Observer - Oct 26
GOVERNMENT last week launched a programme that it is hoping will reduce and, overtime, eliminate the incidence of persons living on the nation's streets.

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jamaicaobserver.com

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Judge halts Ohio registration challenges

CNN.com - Oct 28
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- One voter picks up letters at the post office because trucks kept hitting his mailbox. Another serves in Iraq. Hundreds more are homeless, listing shelters as permanent addresses.

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http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/oh.registration.challenge.ap/index.html

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Former dropout to lead Fontana schools Milligan rose from homelessness to district head

Daily Bulletin - Oct 27
In 1968, Dr. Charles Milligan was a homeless high school junior, slinging hash 48 hours a week in an eight-stool restaurant stand and living in a room loaned to him by a local pastor.

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http://www.dailybulletin.com/Stories/0,1413,203~21481~2493580,00.html

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Voter Registrations Challenged in Ohio

Ohio News - Oct 28
One voter picks up letters at the post office because trucks kept hitting his mailbox. Another serves in Iraq. Hundreds more are homeless, listing shelters as permanent addresses. All are among the 35,000 whose eligibility has been challenged by the Ohio Republican Party.

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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041028/ap_on_el_pr/ohio_registrations_5

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Good Causes

The Beacon News - Oct 27
SARET needs cars: SARET Charitable Fund needs used-car donations to help several clients who are on the verge of homelessness because they can't get to work. SARET helps families in crisis as long as funds are available. Call (630) 842-8876.

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http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/sunpub/homer/news/hscauses27.htm

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Record homeless figures expected

BBC News - Oct 25
There are fears that the latest homelessness figures for Wales will be the highest since recording methods began.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/3952973.stm

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Here's how Suffolk aids the poor and homeless

The Virginian-Pilot(Norfolk, Va.)
October 26, 2004
BY R. STEVEN HERBERT

Recent editorials, columns and news stories have unfairly criticized the city of Suffolk concerning its dealings with the less fortunate in our community.

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http://www.knowledgeplex.org/news/51568.html

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Plea to axe right-to-buy for tenants

The Scotsman - Oct 28
HOUSING chiefs today called for the abolition of tenants' right to buy their houses in a bid to stem a growing shortage of homes across Scotland.

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http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1248602004


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