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The city of New York has come up with an unusual solution to its homeless population, which apparently costs the city $36,000 per family per year for a shelter. They're offering to buy the families a one-way airplane ticket to anywhere. ANYWHERE. Can you believe this?
What do you think? I'm so dumb-founded, I can't even react.
Restructured - Chicago Journal's Danny Fenster writes about Chicagoans restructuring their mortgages so they can afford to stay in their home.
As Ickes Homes enters twillight, residents are left in the shadows - Ickes homes on the near South Side is being torn down. Working on a piece for Thursday about the past and possible future of the complex.
Racial gap is still huge in America - Kansas City Star editorial about the Urban League's report on being black in America in 2009. "Even as an African-American man holds the highest office in the
country, African Americans remain twice as likely as whites to be
unemployed, three times more likely to live in poverty and more than
six times as likely to be incarcerated," they report.
CHA needs to keep promises to displaced residents - I can't believe I forgot this last week! Sorry, blogosphere! Sun Times editorial about CHA's new policy to rid residents of their right to return if they don't respond to the agencies notices within 90 days.
1 Comment
honest said:
I think that New York's program is good in the respect that they are able to send people back to their families where they have strong social support. It gives people a chance to get back on their feet and to restart their lives somewhere where the cost of living might be more affordable.
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