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6 unusual facts about Public housing


Anas Sefrioui

In 2005, Sefroui earned an extra $1 billion to for a contract that was granted to build additional public housing units in Morocco.

Everett Stonequist

He chaired the Saratoga Springs Housing Authority for almost 30 years and was a technical consultant and planner for the city planning board for 19 years.

Herman Fontenot

He was raised by his Grandmother, growing up in the Neches Homes housing projects in Beaumont, Texas.

Local Government Act 1988

Part III allowed housing authorities to provide financial assistance to people living in private property.

Nosson Zand

Growing up in Brookline, he went to Brookline High School, where he took trumpet lessons and was exposed to rap by a friend of from the projects.

Werner Cabrera

While in office, he served on a series of committees relating to technology, education, agriculture, and housing.


Acqua Fuori Dal Ring

The film was primarily shot in the Librino neighborhood of Catania in the public housing projects, with additional scenes filmed on the Black Lava Fields of Mount Etna.

Chewing gum ban in Singapore

Chewing gum was causing serious maintenance problems in high-rise public housing flats, with vandals disposing of spent gum in mailboxes, inside keyholes and even on elevator buttons.

Child murder

In 1992, after the fatal shooting of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he left the Cabrini–Green public housing project for school, the Chicago Tribune put every child murder on the front page (generally no murders were front page news).

Cooley High

Monte based the film on his experiences from attending the real-life Cooley Vocational High School (which is no longer standing) that served students from the Cabrini–Green public housing projects in Chicago.

Dennis Ferguson

In September 2009, in response to public anger at Ferguson living in the Ryde area in the Northern Suburbs region of Sydney, the Government of New South Wales under Premier Nathan Rees and the Housing Minister David Borger moved to introduce legislation to allow the government to evict child sex offenders from public housing.

Kenilworth, Washington, D.C.

Kenilworth gained national attention in 1988 when its government-built housing development, Kenilworth Courts (along with a small sister development called Parkside, located about a mile southwest of Kenilworth), became the first public housing project to be sold to its residents in an initiative championed by Mayor Marion Barry, President Ronald Reagan, and U.S. Representative Jack Kemp.

Mike Feldman

Feldman was a chair of the Metro Housing Development Corporation, a public housing agency serving the second-tier municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, whose constituent municipalities would form the amalgamated city of Toronto in 1998.

Ohio Planning Conference

A second notable early leader and president of the organization was Ernest J. Bohn, a pioneer in public housing in the Cleveland area.

Public housing estates in Tai Wai

The following is an overview of public housing estates in Tai Wai, Hong Kong, including Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS), and Tenant Purchase Scheme TPS) estates.

Ronell Wilson

Prosecutors alleged Wilson was the leader of a violent drug gang called the Stapleton Crew (witnesses at the trial denied using that label) that originated in the Stapleton housing projects of Staten Island.

Tai Wai

The table below lists all the public housing estates in Tai Wai, including Public Rental Housing (Public), Home Ownership Scheme (HOS), Tenants Purchase Scheme (TPS) and Private Sector Participation Scheme (PSPS).

Watts Truce

After 20 years of internecine warfare that waged across the public housing projects of Los Angeles two rival "sets" within the infamous Crips gang decided that enough was enough.


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Anderson v. Jackson

Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) planned to demolish and redevelop four deteriorated public housing developments:  B.W. Cooper, C.J. Peete, St. Bernard, and Lafitte (collectively, "the Big Four").

Anderston Centre

The new Anderston would have its population and slums cleared, and then trisected by these roads into three zones, a Residential Zone on the western side of the motorway, consisting of high-rise deck access public housing blocks, an Industrial Zone on the westernmost extreme bordering with Stobcross and Finnieston, and a Commercial Zone on the eastern side bordering the city centre with Blythswood Hill.

Atira

Atira Property Management a property management company managing Public housing in Vancouver

Beauty Turner

For 16 years, Turner lived in the Robert Taylor Homes, one of the nation's most well known public housing.

Brandon C. Rodegeb

Brandon was born in San Francisco, CA at San Francisco General Hospital and raised in the public housing projects between Palou and Oakdale Avenue in the Hunter's Point District of San Francisco, California.

Charles, Providence, Rhode Island

To the west Charles is partitioned from Wanskuck by Route 146, while the Chad Brown public housing complex separates Charles from Smith Hill to the south, and the West River and Interstate 95 bounds the area to the east.

Chavez Ravine

Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, a film directed by Jordan Mechner, tells the story of how a Mexican American community was destroyed to make way for a low-income public housing project.

Elisabeth Coit

From 1942-1947 she also was the technical standards editor for the United States Housing Authority's Public Housing Design in Washington, D.C., followed by a research position at Mayer and Whittersley from 1947-48.

First House

First Houses, a public housing project in Manhattan in New York City

Hamdy Ahmed

Ahmed was a parliamentary representative for the district of Bulaq at the time of the forcible relocation of the population of that quarter to public housing in the az-Zawiya al-Hamra district in the periphery of Cairo.

Hawthorne, Philadelphia

The four MLK towers were imploded on October 17, 1999, and have been slowly replaced with a mix of low-rise public housing, based on New Urbanism ideas, thanks to the HOPE VI program.

History of Havana

After the revolution of 1959, the new regime promised to improve social services, public housing, and official buildings; nevertheless, shortages that affected Cuba after Castro's abrupt expropriation of all private property and industry under a strong communist model backed by the Soviet Union followed by the U.S. embargo, hit Havana especially hard.

History of the Republic of Singapore

During Lee Kuan Yew's term as prime minister from 1959 to 1990, his administration curbed unemployment, raised the standard of living and implemented a large-scale public housing programme.

Karl Ehn

His most notable single design remains the colossal Karl Marx-Hof (1926-1930), the largest and best example of innovative public housing built during the Socialist Red Vienna movement.

Mixed-income housing

Public housing authorities across the country have used the federal HOPE VI program to rehabilitate distressed public housing and revitalize surrounding neighborhoods by building mixed income housing developments.

Three specific movements and sets of scholarship converged to influence HUD's specific strategies, policies, and programs: the scholarship of William Julius Wilson in his book, The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy; the National Commission on Severely Distressed Public Housing report that called for a significant portion of the nation’s public housing be repaired; and the emergence of New Urbanism.

National Housing Act

Housing Act of 1937, also known as the Wagner-Steagall Act, which subsidized public housing in the United States

Public housing in Hong Kong

After the fire, and facing a surge of immigrant population, then governor Alexander Grantham launched a public housing program to introduce the idea of "multi story building" for the immigrant population living there, thus commencing a programme of mass public housing, providing affordable homes for those on low incomes.

Public housing in the United States

In response to many of the emerging concerns regarding new public housing developments, the Housing Act of 1968 attempt to shift the style of housing developments, looking to the Garden Cities model of Ebenezer Howard.

Shek Lei Estate

Two old blocks, Blocks 10 and 11, are retained for Interim Housing since 1997, to provide totally 1,946 units for rehousing those homeless families who are not immediately eligible for public housing.

Stuart Butler

After visiting tenements in the South Bronx and Washington, D.C. to discuss with residents how best to address problems with public housing, Butler published a paper for Heritage that introduced the idea Urban Enterprise Zones in the United States.

Take It on the Run

Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl recorded a parody version called "Better Get a Gun", which made light of then Chicago mayor Jane Byrne moving into the Cabrini–Green public housing development.

Thuggish Ruggish Bone

The music video was shot near the Cuyahoga River on Cleveland's westside, near from the Lakeview Estates public housing units.

WorkVentures

WorkVentures works in the community through several different channels, including three Connect Centres located in public housing estates in Airds, Claymore and Macquarie Fields in south-west Sydney.