Should you evict tenants if a child skips school? Monday news round up

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Housing Authority tries to keep kids in school - Charlotte's housing authority will issue a 30 day eviction notice if the children living there miss more than 10 days of school.

What do you think: good way to keep kids in school or way to ensure more families become homeless?

Cuyahoga Housing Authority criticizes U.S. House Plan to allow guns in public housing - Cleveland's housing authority reacts to the measure we discussed in Friday's post.

Englewood violenece limits summertime for children - a beautifully written Trib article about how the recent violence is affecting kids. One child now associates seeing balloons and stuffed animals with someone dying. Heartbreaking.

In Phoenix, homeless battle summer heat - Here, we usually think of winter being the worst time to be homeless. But in Phoenix, it's the other way around.

Job losses show wider racial gap in New York - NYT this morning shows that unemployment rates for black NYC residents has gone up faster than for whites. It'd be interesting to see similar statistics for Chicago. 

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