Showing posts with label vouchers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vouchers. Show all posts
Sunday, October 21, 2018

LET THE FACTS SPEAK: "Landlords refused to even consider voucher holders, some candidly citing the low subsidies and their desire to cash in on a hot market."

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Previously: If local "progressives" aren't holding City Hall's feet to the fire about Housing Choice vouchers, are they...
Thursday, October 11, 2018

Harvest Homelessness in New Albany: Who do you believe, Mayor Gahan or your own two eyes?

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Exit 0 didn't mince words today: "Yes, homelessness is real in New Albany." For Jeff Gahan's alternative Pollyan...
Friday, September 28, 2018

If local "progressives" aren't holding City Hall's feet to the fire about Housing Choice vouchers, are they really progressive?

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According to the Green Mouse, the last time a News & Tribune reporter was allowed into the inner sanctum for an interview with Mayor...
Friday, September 14, 2018

City Hall's housing voucher fetish is disproved by HUD's own studies, which show show clear patterns of discrimination by landlords.

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Mayor Jeff Gahan's hostile takeover of public housing in 2017 probably never was intended to be a center-of-the-plate campaign issue ...
Monday, April 30, 2018

Long read from Strong Towns: "What housing vouchers can and can't do."

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Riffing on yesterday evening's post ... It's déjà vu all over again as the NAHA and New Hope ask the BZA for variances to build...
Friday, May 12, 2017

Deaf Gahan says housing vouchers are the panacea. An NPR and PBS investigation bursts the mayor's bunker bubble.

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Perhaps Adam Dickey believes that between them, Jeff Gahan, David Duggins and Dan Coffey can solve a nationwide voucher problem right her...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

In #OurNA, we'll get serious about affordable housing -- after Breakwater is finished, of course.

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Today on the DemoDisneyDixie channel, we're screening Pinocchio. In fact, Adam has front row seats, and TIF's buying the popcorn....
Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Vouching for #OurNA: This item should make local Democrats feel even better about Gahan's public housing putsch.

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More "encouragement" below for New Albany's most vulnerable -- but first, the Green Mouse has learned that the newly stuffed ...
Saturday, April 01, 2017

Caesar prepares to Flick his Bic: "Section 8 housing doesn’t impact property values in high-income neighborhoods."

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It's never a good idea to give Team Gahan the benefit of the doubt, but accepting that the usual functionaries will be vigorously tou...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Time to learn facts, Democrats: Myths and misperceptions about public housing ... and lessons from Chicago's reform effort.

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It doesn't come as any great surprise that Jeff Gahan would like to replace affordable housing in New Albany with various manifestati...
Monday, May 09, 2011

"Education. Schools. Children. Vouchers. Which word doesn't fit?"

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My pen pal D(NM) , a native New Albanian now residing elsewhere, sent this note the other day. Shortly after reading it, I saw St. Daniels...
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Monday, April 25, 2011

HB1003 (voucher bill): Questions for Rep. Ed Clere.

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(Courtesy of Vic’s Statehouse Notes #83 – April 25, 2011) Dear Friends, Thursday’s historic Senate vote on the voucher bill was not reported...

HB1003 (voucher bill): Questions for Sen. Ron Grooms.

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(Courtesy of Vic’s Statehouse Notes #83 – April 25, 2011) --- Dear Friends, Thursday’s historic Senate vote on the voucher bill was not repo...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Gutting of public education proceeds apace; Indiana's conservative architects of douchbaggery now rendering us a world laughingstock.

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Thanks for the forward. The vote comes today. Contact Ron Grooms and register your voice for posterity, even if his consumption of Kool-Aid ...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

HB 1003: "It would shatter the separation of state funding and religious schools established by our Constitution 160 years ago."

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While I've no clue as to Senator Brent Steele's overall ideological grounding, other than the generally justifiable presumption that...