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Rosie Kirk said moving to Highland Park Apartments, a low-income complex for seniors where rent is capped at 30 percent of her income, improved her quality of life.
Dr. George Shanno, right, performs back surgery in 2007 at Southwest Washington Medical Center, the county's largest nonprofit organization.
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LEWISTON -- The developer of a Bates Mill housing plan said he's ready to move on to the next step, with bigger free-market apartments going up for rent.
Developer Nathan Szanton said he plans to apply for low-income housing credits for the project from Maine Housing in October.
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... in return for Forest Park II's obligation to rent the apartments to low-income tenants at below-mark...
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FARMINGTON - The 82 High Street housing project will celebrate its 20th birthday with a party from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday. The public is invited.
The former trailer park was redeveloped after Western Maine Community Action purchased it when it went up for sale in 1987. More than $1 million and 11,000 hours of labor were invested by community volunteers, area churches and other organizations to create homes and apartments for rent to low-income families.
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Introduction. Overview and Summary. I. Recognition of a Right to Counsel for People Who Face Eviction is Sound Public Policy. A. Eviction Proceedings and Other Legal Proceedings Through Which People Lose Their Homes are Too Complicated and Difficult for Untrained People to Defend Themselves Adequately. B. Unnecessary, Unlawful Evictions Impose High Costs on Tenants and the City.. C. Providing Counsel for Low-Income People in Housing Court is Cost-Effective and Will Have a Positive Effect on Housing Policy and Housing Court. D. People Who Face Losing Their Homes Must Have a Legally-Enforceable Right to Counsel: Funding for Legal Assistance Programs Does Not, by Itself Solve the Problem. II. The U.S. Constitution, New York Constitution, New York Civil Practice Law and R...
... a complicated collection of laws regulate rent levels 15 and public subsidies, 16 grounds for evi... from eviction or restored them to apartments from which they had been evicted, a 90% success ra...
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BANGOR - Maine Central Railroad's decision not to appeal a May 31 ruling regarding a disputed railroad crossing has put the $6 million waterworks project back on track.
The Bangor Waterworks property, vacant since the 1970s, is the focus of a Shaw House Development Inc. plan to convert the complex, a collection of century-old brick buildings, into 35 rent- subsidized efficiency apartments for low-income adults.
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BANGOR - At long last, the ambitious $6.4 million Bangor Waterworks redevelopment project is set to begin.
The complex of historic brick buildings on State Street, vacant since the 1970s, is the focus of a Shaw House Development Inc. plan to convert the collection of century-old brick buildings into rent- subsidized efficiency apartments for very low-income adults who are at risk of homelessness.
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A provision in the housing laws, known as vacancy decontrol, allows for the deregulation of apartments when their legal rents reach $2,000 a month during a vacancy Because other provisions allow for large increases during a vacancy, any vacant apartment can be deregulated in this way. At the time that the provision was passed, its proponents argued that it would only affect highrent areas of Manhattan below Harlem. But the CSS study shows that vacancy decontrol is also affecting other neighborhoods, especially Upper Manhattan where many Black households are concentrated.
Working with recently released data from the U.S. Census Bureau's New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey (HVS), CSS calculated that fewer and fewer households are able to find and move into rent-regulated apartments. ...
...More than a million low-income people in households with incomes below $36,620 fo...
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Cheers: Life will become a whole lot better for many of the county's and state's neediest residents as a result of two types of funding secured this week. On Monday, a $6.3 million federal grant was announced that will pay for building a 56-unit apartment complex for low-income seniors near Westfield Vancouver mall. The seniors will be able to rent the apartments for no more than $200 a month, depending on income levels.
Then on Thursday in Olympia, the first bill of the new legislative session allocated $7.6 million in emergency aid to help the state's low-income residents pay energy bills. About 14,000 families will qualify for the aid.
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ONTARIO - City officials have long had the vision of building up the downtown into an urban, walkable community.
Brent Schultz, the city's housing director, is hoping the recent opening of the City Center Senior Apartments in the 200 block of North Lemon Avenue, next to the Senior Center and City Hall, is the next piece of that vision.
... affordability for those living on a fixed income, Schultz said. Often, seniors are paying upward to...Rent at the Ontario apartments are at about 30 percent ...