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Charismata Offers Homeless Mothers A Chance To Get On Their Feet

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 05.13.2012

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Michelle Henry is a mother who has made it her mission to help other mothers. In addition to raising six children of her own, she has for the last...

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U.S. Bank Faces Federal Investigation

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: U.S. Bank, Bv-Politics, Hud, u.s. Bancorp, Housing Discrimination, Fair Housing Act, Housing and Urban Development, Business News

U.S. Bank on Tuesday joined the ranks of large financial firms facing discrimination charges for the way it maintains foreclosed homes in mostly black...

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Feds Launch Probe Of Wells Fargo Housing Practices

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Latino Home Buyers, Communities of Color, Wells Fargo, Black Home Buyers, Hud, Discrimination, Foreclosure, Housing Discrimination, Justice Department, Civil Rights Violations, Housing and Urban Development, Civil Rights, Business News

Wells Fargo & Co., the nation's largest mortgage lender, is facing the second of at least two federal probes into how it treats minority borrowers and...

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Housing As a Pathway to Better Health and More Opportunity

Sandra B. Henriquez | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Public Health, Hud, Housing, Public Housing, HUD Rental Assistance, Affordable Housing, Politics News

Ultimately, the Obama administration's rental assistance demonstration is about providing families who need help paying the rent with real choices.

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Homeless With Children

William Laney | Posted 04.06.2012

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Families who live in motels, or double-up with family or friends, qualify as homeless beings and deserve the aid given to the more visibly homeless.

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Homeowners Stuck With High Rates Even After Refinancing Program

Posted 04.06.2012

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By Cora Currier ProPublica Some homeowners are getting stuck with relatively high interest rates even after they participate in the government's p...

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Banks Fail To Maintain Foreclosed Homes In Minority Neighborhoods: Report

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 04.05.2012

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Six of the nation’s largest banks have consistently failed to aggressively market and maintain foreclosed homes in communities of color, according t...

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Take Action to Help Homeless Kids Now

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 03.29.2012

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If homeless children don't have a permanent place to stay, shouldn't they be able to get the help designated for them, without having to prove their status, or wallow in red tape while missing out on a childhood?

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Homes For Michigan's Homeless Veterans

The Huffington Post | David Sands | Posted 03.28.2012

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Homeless Michigan veterans will soon receive some much needed assistance finding a place to stay. On Tuesday, Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow,...

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The White House and Your House: Policy Inertia and Organizational Resistance in the On-going Crisis of American Housing

David Coates | Posted 05.26.2012

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In 2008-9, major banks in trouble were bailed out by American homeowners as taxpayers; but in 2012 American homeowners in trouble are not being bailed out by those same banks to anything like the same degree.

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Bing And City Council At Odds Over Who Fate Of Department Of Human Services

Huffington Post | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 03.13.2012

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The Detroit Department of Human Services faces an uncertain future as Mayor Dave Bing's administration and state and federal authorities plan to disso...

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HUD Grants Homeless Programs $201 Million

Reuters | Posted 05.13.2012

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WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is awarding $201 million to 731 new programs to help the home...

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This Is Not A Misprint: Good News For Some Homeowners With Bank of America Loans

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 03.08.2012

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For once, now might be a good time to have a Bank of America home loan. Under the $25 billion foreclosure settlement signed last month, Bank of Ame...

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Who's Really Paying The Tab For The Mortgage Settlement?

HuffingtonPost.com | Mark Gongloff | Posted 02.18.2012

Read More: Mortgage Settlement, Mortgage, Mortgage Servicers, Mortgage Foreclosure, Hud, Banks, Foreclosure, Foreclosure Fraud, Big Banks, Foreclosure Settlement, Business News

Just who is paying for the big mortgage settlement, anyway? The Obama administration says it's the banks. Mortgage investors worry it will be them....

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Should Homeless People Be Sheltered Or Diverted? Obama Budget Renews Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.16.2012

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Every night, homeless shelters across the country turn away thousands of people seeking beds -- and not just because they're full, though they often a...

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They Live In Motels And On Friends' Couches, But Are These Kids Homeless?

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 02.12.2012

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Homeless kids have the right to an education. That's the basic rationale behind the McKinney-Vento Act of 1987, a law meant to ensure that homeless ki...

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What The Mortgage Settlement Won't Cover

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 02.09.2012

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On September 25, 2010, Monica and Ricardo Zapata should have been out celebrating their tenth wedding anniversary, or enjoying a candlelight dinner in...

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Counting Homeless For A Night Leads To Unsheltered Populations In Need

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 01.31.2012

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While most New Yorkers were long curled up in bed at 1 a.m. Tuesday, Victoria Mohl was fighting back the January wind as she beelined for a shivering...

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"We All Count"

Christine Schanes | Posted 03.31.2012

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Last Friday morning, hundreds of volunteers left deployment centers throughout San Diego County to count homeless people, an annual enumeration of homeless people run by the San Diego Regional Task Force on the Homeless.

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Pontiac's Emergency Manager Could Have Lost the City $850,000

HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 01.11.2012

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U.S. Rep. Gary Peters came to Pontiac City Hall Wednesday morning to discuss his plan to combat an agreement between Pontiac Emergency Manager Lou Sch...

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The Subsidized Housing Search 'Maze'

NYCity News Service | Posted 01.22.2012

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Finding housing is a nightmare for any New Yorker, but the task can be particularly vexing for those seeking government-subsidized apartments. There ...

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How Cutting Government Spending Can Increase the Cost of Government

Thomas Fisher | Posted 12.05.2011

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The evidence is clear and undisputable: cutting government spending in areas that prevent problems from occurring in the first place can cost taxpayers more over the long run.

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It's Madness: the Incarceration of Disabled Homeless People in the US

Paul Boden | Posted 11.07.2011

The criminal justice system has displaced the mental health system as the main institution for dealing with poor people with psychiatric disabilities in the United States.

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4 Teens Shot Near Mayor's Planned Meeting On South Side

Posted 10.31.2011

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Four teens were wounded Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting in Chicago's Woodlawn neighborhood--where Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Sen. Dick Durbin and U.S. H...

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Amnesty for the Indefensible

Robert Scheer | Posted 10.24.2011

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They will get away with it, at least in this life. "They" are the Wall Street usurers, people of a sort condemned in Scripture, who have brought more misery to this nation than we have known since the Great Depression.

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