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    approach of low-income housing policy adopted by the government in the five year plans viz. the Rajiv Gandhi Awas Yojana. The paper will also include the impact of this housing scheme on the improvement of slum areas. The idea of ‘slum-free cities’ has dominated the housing policies in India for long. This concept has been adopted in a prototypical manner for all cities and geographies without much compassion for the users, and consideration of the reality of the varying land and housing market conditions

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    be better. The farmer take a fair values, fair benefit. Have many comsumer buy it in the world. Ben and Jerry is a company of the fair trade. Ben and Jerry’s ice cream be succesful at economic , and the social justice. Ben and Jerry take fair benefit to can help the farmers have a bettle life. In La Rosita the farmer name is Segundo Cañar have a bettle life because for he cooperate with the Ben and jerry, he has money, “He can cover the costs of the farm, housing, food and education for his children(Ben

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    Have you ever wondered how people start to become homeless? Often, people all around the world become homeless by poverty,housing,etc. This is because poverty is a common thread surrounded by everyone who experiences homelessness. People that are homeless don't have any food or water, instead they live on the streets with less clothing and the eager to have food and water. In 2010 14.3% nationwide people are living through poverty. In 2009 43.6 million people are homeless up from 39.8 million

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    unable to afford to rent. The federal government is to blame. The federal government needs to raise wages, and provide more affordable housing to fill the gap between incomes and rents. “Most Americans, if they don’t live in trailer parks or in the inner city, think that the typical low income family lives in public housing or benefits from some kind of housing assistance, but the opposite is true” (Dreier, "The Shelterforce Blog"). Low income families typically don't receive any assistance at

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    government should take a stronger stance on finding permanent homes for the homeless instead of providing temporary relief through shelters, the government also has the power to control taxes and therefore has a greater ability to fund permanent housing. The government needs to take a stance on this problem because they have authority to move homeless people from the streets instead of leaving it to nonprofits who don’t have the authority. Overall taxpayers are already paying for healthcare, legal

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    The Great City Of Detroit

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    Everyone knows Detroit has its fair share of issues. Including abandoned homes, snow removal unsightly lawns and vacant lots, crime, bad roads, old plumbing nonworking street lights and many other problems. It is time to come together Detroit was once a beautiful city and can be once more the architectural dream in the early 19th century. The craftsmanship has declined the hand carved wood trim, stained glass windows and many other antiquates that made Detroit the great motor city and one if the

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    Housing Desegregation

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    answering preliminary questions of: What is housing segregation and what are the problems, as a result? What are the casual effects on modern community planning? Can solutions be implemented to desegregate housing for community planning in the future? The intended use of this framework will be to influence both policy makers and community planners toward desegregation. Keywords: Community Planning; Housing Segregation; White Flight; Racial

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    Building Strange Bedfellows – Indiana Housing and Community Development Coalition Toward the end of the 2015 meeting of the Indiana General Assembly (“Session”), it became evident that a few advocacy organizations were seemingly misinformed and disconnected from IHCDA policy positions. Rather than addressing these issues individually, IHCDA seized the opportunity to develop a much broader working group of advocates and experts that are connected to housing and community development in Indiana. After

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    Homelessness (USICH) and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have identified rapid re-housing as a critical strategy to meeting the national goal of ending family homelessness by 2020 (USICH 2013). As noted in a recent update of Opening Doors, the federal plan to end homelessness, "[US Department of Health and Human Services], HUD, [the US Department of Veterans Affairs], and USICH have joined forces to promote expansion of rapid re-housing as a part of community coordinated systems"

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    Public Housing, also known as subsidized housing or “te projects”, was created in the U.S. to sustain families that had lost their jobs during the Great Depression, the goals were stated in Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937 (Schwartz). They were created to produce communities that had adequate living along with safe communities and proper education. In many cases public housing has served the low-income class well. Numerous families, disabled people, and elderly depend on government subsidized

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