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How to Get Housing Assistance
Howcast - Housing assistance in the form of public housing and rental offsets is available for people with low incomes or who are living in a natural disaster area. Find out how to apply.
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How to File for Rent assistance
Paying rent can be a challenge if you are a low-income family, disabled, or elderly. Get the rent assistance you need.
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How to Apply for Section 8 Rental Voucher Program
The Section 8 Rental Voucher Program is designed to help low-income families, the elderly, and persons with disabilities make their rent payments.
Wonderscape
Addressing Homelessness: Federal and Community Efforts
This video explores how federal programs like the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Grant and Section 8 vouchers aim to combat homelessness, alongside community-based solutions. Learn about the importance of providing housing, income...
The Guardian
Documenting Social Housing Injustices Through Film
For over half a century, residents have reported serious structural issues and terrible conditions in London's social housing complexes. Kwajo Tweneboa is a social housing advocate using social media to push for improved living...
The Guardian
Social Media Advocacy Spurs Political Change for Social Housing
Kwajo Tweneboa has been relentless advocacy on behalf of social housing residents. The work is emotionally taxing and he and other activists face huge challenges in addressing the problems. Recently, however, his social media activism...
The Guardian
Fighting for Better Social Housing Conditions on TikTok
Kwajo Tweneboa is a social housing resident and activist. After years living with his family in a mold and cockroach infested apartment, he has taken to social media to reveal the inhospitable living conditions of many social housing...
The Guardian
Mold in Lodon'd Public Housing Causes Health Concerns for Residents
Kwajo Tweneboa is a social housing activist using social media to expose dangerous conditions in London's public housing complexes. In this video, he visists a resident who has been struggling with persistent damp, mold issues. Despite...
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Tyranny of the Majority
Four different perspectives from leading researchers on the threat of majoritarian rule or “tyranny of the majority". Featured are: Quentin Skinner (QMUL), John Dunn (University of Cambridge), Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) and author Matthew...
PBS
Why Do We Have Housing Projects?
What's the history behind public housing? Why do governments all over the world subsidize housing for the public. Today, Dannielle look at the evolution of housing projects and how the government got into the landlord game.
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The Importance of Dialogue
Political scientist Mark Bevir (UC Berkeley) describes the importance of regular dialogue between policymakers and the populace.
The Wall Street Journal
A City That Works
London Breed, San Francisco's first female African-American mayor, shares the role that mentorship and internships played in her career and how business leaders can help their home communities level up.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Adam F.C. Fletcher - Teachers Make a Difference - Idu Maduli
Adam F.C. Fletcher is a writer, speaker and focused on human engagement, education transformation, and social change. Exciting, educating, and empowering are some of the words people have used to describe Adam F.C. Fletcher. A specialist...
Amor Sciendi
Architecture and Proportion
The French Architect Le Corbusier revived traditions of human proportions in architecture in a radically new way.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Stephen Ritz - The Power of a Plant
Stephen teaches in Public School 55 in New York City’s South Bronx, the poorest Congressional District in America. His big idea – pioneered in the Bronx where 37% of residents are food insecure – is to grow food indoors and...
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Concerns raised over police access to CCTV cameras
A city-funded program bringing free internet and cable to NYCHA complexes, is now being used to link CCTV cameras at some developments directly into the NYPD's citywide surveillance software system.
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The NDP had a woman at a housing campaign event share her experience. It didn’t go as planned
NDP Leader Jim Dinn is promising to build 1,000 public housing units each year if his party forms government. But a woman Dinn had at the event to share her experience about the difficulty in finding a home caused Dinn to step in and...
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Nova Scotia's public housing crackdown
The province's housing agency says nearly 2,000 public housing tenants need to move to smaller units. With the list of families waiting for public housing at an all-time high, the agency is cracking down on households with more bedrooms...
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Why Nova Scotia’s budget doesn’t skimp on health-care spending
The Houston government has released its latest provincial budget which continues the trend of massive spending on health-care and includes some help for people feeling cost-of-living pressures.
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Here's where more public housing is coming to Nova Scotia
Nova Scotia Housing Minister John Lohr has announced two sites in Halifax where 150 public housing units will be built over the next few years. Twenty-five modular homes in other locations were also announced.
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Why the wait for subsidized housing is growing in N.B
New Brunswickers are feeling the pressure of a tight housing market and many are forced onto the ever-growing list for subsidized housing.
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P.E.I. apartment vacancy rate eases, but advocates say more action needed
The Island's rental unit vacancy rate was up a little in 2023. But when it comes to availability, P.E.I. is still tied for worst in the country. Cory Pater with P.E.I. Fight for Affordable Housing says the province should regulate the...
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Power & Politics: Mayor Eric Adams on migrant crisis; Special election Assembly District 77 candidates
On this week's Power & Politics, News 12's Kurt Semder speaks with New York City Mayor Eric Adams about recent crimes allegedly involving migrants across the city.
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2025 Expiration Date For Child Tax Credit 'Dangerously Shortsighted' Says Rep. Torres
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) joins Cheddar to share his thoughts on President Biden's American Families Plan, his thoughts on New York City's and why he's asking for billions of dollars from the infrastructure bill for New York Housing.