Families could wait for decades to get affordable housing in Newark | Opinion
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
Posted Mar 03, 2021
In a new study, David Dante Troutt, director of the Rutgers Center on Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity (CLiME), says 60% of Newark s residents spend one-third of their income on housing and almost one-third of residents spend at least half of their incomes on rent. (Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Advance Media) Aristide Economopoulos | NJ Adva
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By David Dante Troutt
If Newark was to meet its residents’ current need for affordable housing at least 16,000 units it would take over 20 years and still fail to reach hundreds of households. Yet by that time, another generation of very low-income families would show all the symptoms of deep economic scarring laid bare by the pandemic chronic housing instability and displacement, school absenteeism, increased exposure to trauma, poverty-level wages and, as the city’s 2,300 COVID-19 deaths c
Hannaford donates $40,000 to support after-school programs in Vermont Share Updated: 6:31 PM EST Jan 25, 2021
Hannaford donates $40,000 to support after-school programs in Vermont Share Updated: 6:31 PM EST Jan 25, 2021
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Show Transcript NEWS> Hannaford Supermarkets IS GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY. BY DONATING 40 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO SUPPORT AFTER- SCHOOL PROGRAMS FOR NORTHWESTERN VERMONT FAMILIES THE SUPERMARKET AND THE HANNAFORD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION. GAVE 20 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BURLINGTON AND GREATER VERGENNES. THE DONATIONS ARE PART OF OVERALL FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLAR COMMITMENT F
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 6:31 PM EST Jan 25, 2021 The grocery store chain Hannaford is donating $40,000 to support after-school programs in Vermont impacted by the pandemic. Officials with the chain announced the donation Monday. It includes $20,000 to the Boys a
The annual event went virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Written By: Peter Passi | ×
Attendees at CHUM s 2019 Christmas Eve Vigil hold lit candles and signs remembering 37 formerly homeless people and advocates who died that year. This year s event took place not on the steps of the Duluth City Hall, as has been the tradition, but instead shifted to an online gathering so as to reduce the threat of COVID-19 transmission. (Steve Kuchera / file / News Tribune)
This year claimed the lives of 59 people in the Duluth area who were experiencing homelessness or were advocates for the homeless.
Unable to gather in person this year due to COVID-19 restrictions, Duluth community members joined in an online version Thursday of CHUM S Christmas Eve Vigil, where they paid tribute to those who died.
The return of rattan Natural materials are increasingly popular, and woven rattan, made from the thin pliable stems of climbing palms, is moving from the patio and poolside into living and dining rooms, as well as the kitchen and bedrooms. Sustainably grown rattan is strong, lightweight, easy to clean and can be bent and shaped to make durable furnishings. Folding glass doors Commercial designs often carry over into residential use, and large, industrial-style folding steel and glass doors are just the latest example of this trend, according to Julie Bradshaw, owner of Bradshaw Designs in San Antonio. When closed, these doors provide wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling views to the outside. Opened, they stack back on themselves, accordion-like, eliminating any border between the outdoors and the in.