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Kerston and Tyrell Rankins are facing eviction from their home in Winston-Salem. They may be excluded from pandemic assistance programs due to a technicality.
Kerston Rankins thought she got along well with her landlord. Even though she had fallen behind on her rent last fall, the landlord was working with her and taking partial payments.
When she told him over the winter that she hadnât signed up for natural gas service, she recalled, he asked how she was going to keep warm. Rankins told him she would turn on the stove and boil water. The landlord said to be careful.
Diggs Gallery at Winston-Salem State University featured the neighborhood in Pride & Dignity from the Hill: A Celebration of the Historic Happy Hill Community in 2010.
Based on the 2010 U.S. Census, Happy Hill had a population of 3,204 people, said Cheryl Harry, the executive director of the Triad Cultural Arts Inc. in Winston-Salem.
Over the past 25 years, Happy Hill reunions have attracted hundreds of former residents to the Sims Recreation Center where they remembered the people and events that shaped the neighborhood. The 2020 event was canceled because of the pandemic. These reunions show the pride that residents have for the area and are proud for the nurturing family values that young people enjoyed growing up there, Mayor Allen Joines said. It is very appropriate that we recognize and remember the impact that this historic neighborhood has had on our city, particularly during Black History Month. Â
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For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units.
But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been then head of the New York City’s main housing agency getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing officials felt community preference conflicted with an Obama administration rule requiring municipalities to show how they are combating exclusionary housing. But last summer the Trump administration repealed the Obama measure, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the city’s policy remains unchanged.
President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images)
For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units.
But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been then head of the New York City’s main housing agency getting local buy-in for projects could be “extraordinarily difficult.” Federal housing officials felt community preference conflicted with an Obama administration rule requiring municipalities to show how they are combating exclusionary housing. But last summer the Trump administration repealed the Obama measure, Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing, and the city’s policy remains unchanged.