Govt unwilling to help housing group
For more than a year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Deve바카라lopment has refused to address how and where HUD helped the homeless, arguing th바카라at allowing their homes to be demolished without help would violate the nation’s “naked” housing laws.
On Wednesday, the housing agency again refused to address how it helped homeless people build a safe sleeping area inside its homes, according to a release from its chief executive officer.
The shelter, which is located in a building with other properties, is on an open plot of land near Interstate 80 and Interstate 5, according to the release.
Housing advocates who have criticized the federal government’s lack of action on a housing crisis in their communities say these camps, like the one that is now being demolished, demonstrate why communities, not agencies, must spend more money to house them.
And it also shows why many of those homeless people are likely to eventually return to communities in which they were once part of, experts say.
“The government has been wrong about what it should do with these properties,” said Tom Steen, the director of policy and advocacy for the Washington-based nonprofit Community First. “This is the most devastating thing you could do to homeless families and people that they didn’t bring with them from where they were living.”
Housing advocates have called on the U.S. government to fund affordable housing for homeless families.
HUD has not indicated when its current funding cycle will come up for renewal or what its approach would be in terms of how and where it will handle future demolition of the properties, according to the release.
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development The new housing for homeless adults and children under age 24.
That could mean building houses and apartments in an area that has recently seen severe flooding in Miami Beach.
Another possibility is to build in an area without a long-standing, ongoing problem like homelessness, said Jason Smith, who led the Office for Civil Rights at HUD.
“We could do the same thing in Boston and Chicago. Or Detroit and Philadelphia,” Smith said.
The h우리카지노omeless in many places around the world are considered a public safety risk.
For example, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimates that 8 million homeless people live in the United States — including 2.5 million in Boston. Homelessness in Boston is up more than 50 percent since 2010.
For the first time in more than 20 years, th
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