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Search results for "low-cost housing" ...
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Through the Cracks
The 1988 brutal rape and murder of a young mother and her daughter has left the child's grandmother, Phyllis Little, with 21 years of questions. In 2009, the NYPD announced they had arrested a man and charged him with the double-murder. Reporter Joshua Kors provides a detailed look at the lives of the murdered mother, as well as the man accused of killing her. Kors also describes the pain and guilt felt by Little for more than two decades.
Tags: crack; Bronx; low-cost housing; DNA; Five Percenters; Rikers Island prison; Bronx River Projects; West Farms
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Moving out of Reach
This investigative report follows the results of the 1986 Census Bureau survey conducted about housing conditions in Orange County. Using CAR, Campbell's analysis revealed that "nearly a quarter million residents of Orange County--one family in nine--spend at least half their income on housing," which significantly exceeds the federal governent-recommended limit. This investigation also looked at te increase in tax-exempt bonds for luxury apartmet, despite a shortage of low-cost rental properties in the county.
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How the little guy gets crunched
A Time special report investigates how campaign finance contributions have changed laws, regulations and policies. The main story in the report focuses on the trade war that the American government launched against Europe on behalf of the banana baron Carl Lindner, a major contributor both to Republicans and Democrats. Lindner's company, fruit-and-vegetable giant Chiquita, was restricted to export its low-cost bananas to the European market, Time reports. In response, the U.S. government imposed higher tariffs on European goods. The trade war did not affect consumers of luxurious goods from overseas, the story reveals. Instead, it only hurt American small businesses that imported their supplies from European countries.
Tags: politicians; Washington; Clinton; lobbying; lobbyists; taxes; tariffs; trade; World Trade Organization (WTO); Al Gore; White House; legislature; Congress; Senate
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City of Hope
The Wisconsin State Journal investigates the lack of low-cost housing in Madison and the efforts to improve the living standards in the neighborhoods. The State Journal also looks at why more than 100 needy families can't get affordable apartments largely because of the failure of the Dane County Housing Authority.
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ABC PrimeTime Live shows how Disneyworld is endangering wildlife, degrading the environment, sapping money the county needs for low-cost housing and harming surrounding communities, May 10, 1990.
Tags: TAPE
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Sacramento Bee series on hunger in California reports 2.3 million depend on state emergency food charities, but thousands are turned away; two million people qualify for food stamps but don't get them; there is a five-year waiting list for low-cost housing, February - March 1987.
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Orlando Sentinel identifies conflicts of interests at the Orange County Housing Authority and finds the agency did a better job of helping developers get low-cost loans than of providing rental housing at reasonable cost, December 1984-October 1985.
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