Essays Tagged: "Public housing"

Social Services In Ontario

at have been cut so far include: Eliminating photo radar, chopping welfare rates, downsizing of the public service through department amalgamation and program cuts, cutting some health-care services a ... amalgamation and program cuts, cutting some health-care services and school boards, pulling back on public housing, highway and subway construction, and eliminating several NDP bills, including Bill 4 ...

(5 pages) 64 0 4.3 Jan/1996

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government

A proposed experiment on how lower income childern typicaly had a lower IQ and what would happen to those same childern if they moved into a better living enviroment.

xperiment would be conducted with families of all races, from a low-income situation, in inner city public housing facilities, that have children between the ages of ten to fifteen. The control group ... n between the ages of ten to fifteen. The control group would be those families left in inner city public housing facilities, and the experimental group would be the families that were moved up in to ...

(2 pages) 43 0 5.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community > Children and Youngsters

Elvis presey.

he was stillborn and grew up as an only child. 1948 Elvis moved toMemphis Tennessee. They lived in public housing. Elvis got several jobs to help supporthis family. He graduated form Humes high schoo ... he was stillborn and grew up as an only child. 1948 Elvis moved toMemphis Tennessee. They lived in public housing. Elvis got several jobs to help supporthis family. He graduated form Humes high schoo ...

(2 pages) 59 0 3.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

Poverty and Solutions.

n your back. Mayor Daley actually has one of the best ideas I've heard yet, and that was to scatter public housing into the suburbs, to ensure those living in poverty are offered the same privliges as ...

(2 pages) 161 5 4.1 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

The Changing Face of Public Housing. HUD's HOPE VI Program.

Chicago CHA HistoryBy 1950, public housing projects had risen in cities across the country. Their advocates in the National Hous ... e benefits, they claimed, extended to cities as a whole. By improving the social ills bred by slums public housing had saved taxpayers vast costs for police, fire, health and crime protection.Architec ... ood intentions have conspired to create a poverty trap in Chicago's housing projects. As elsewhere, public housing was first designed in the 1930s as transitional housing for the working poor, often w ...

(23 pages) 283 0 3.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Property law on mixed use and mixed income development

ow-Income HouseholdsMixed-income housing has remedied many problems associated with other types public housing developments, but has many problems of its own. Many of the problems arise out of a ... (resulting from inclusionary zoning) have allowed development of affordable housing with using less public funds than subsidized low-income concentrated developments. The inclusion of market-rate un ...

(6 pages) 62 0 4.7 Jan/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Classroom struggle: school's out for peace, unity and social justice (article published in the Sydney Morning Herald)

oney which will be spent on the military would be better spent on upgrading educational facilities, public housing and hospitals.The Howard Government is unwilling to say just how much money will be d ... devoted to the war, but it is sure to be in the billions. In comparison, $1.5 billion could restore public education funding to pre-1990 levels, or increase the number of available child care places b ...

(3 pages) 50 0 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

Public Opinion in California

How do California residents feel about public housing? One indicator ofpublic opinion are the resluts of a survey reported to the Odum Inst ... computer readable form.Reviewing the results of this study can give us an idea of how (or even if) publicopinion changes over time. The survey examined whether adult residents ofCalifornia felt that ... e survey examined whether adult residents ofCalifornia felt that tax money (at the state level) for public housing should beincreased, held the same, or decreased.The results indicate that the residen ...

(5 pages) 43 0 4.5 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues

An Analysis of the Book Our Am

em; proving the unkempt conditions.The children don't ever see anything more than the long strip of housing developments that run consecutively down one strip of Chicago's south side. These projects a ...

(5 pages) 1717 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Indrawati Joe Instructor Mr. Bac Sierra English 90 2 July

tude toward the native. He was attempting to improve their standard of living by opening job field, public school, and public housing. But those didn't satisfy them enough; as we compared to what Chin ...

(3 pages) 1277 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science

The Ghetto and the Suburb. Where do

y I hate the fact he works there. I honestly would rather have him working on the streets than in a public school. I honestly think that the streets today are a lot calmer and easier to work in than p ... t the streets today are a lot calmer and easier to work in than public schools. Especially Columbus public schools. Recently I watched a movie called Hood 2 Hood: The Blockumentary. It went through al ...

(4 pages) 15 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Stop the War on Drugs

e many restrictions put in place that another type of criminal would not have. Restrictions like no public housing, and denied federal benefits for home and student loans, grants for higher education, ... ts. There are many websites and groups advocating for the legalization of drugs. We must inform the public of the many negative effects this drug prohibition has caused. You have to be realistic when ...

(8 pages) 68 0 3.5 May/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Advocacy in Human Services - Campaign Action Plan

Apartment Tenant Action Group (WATAG) with the belief that tenant participation is the best way for public housing tenants to voice their opinions on issues regarding their housing and community.Accor ... Housing were either ignored or impractical solutions suggested. Tenants are also angry as a similar public housing estate in a neighbouring suburb had the desired coverage installed four years ago wit ...

(9 pages) 65 0 5.0 Sep/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Economic Social Policy- Housing

ussed through comparison of housing affordability and tenure share trends from past to the present. Public rental housing is a problem area in many countries. (Bramley & Dunmore, 2008) Low standar ... te landlords, market rents versus subsidised rents, what to do about problems of squalor, crime and public health. Four or five decades of social policy development in the leading welfare states have ...

(14 pages) 8 0 0.0 Dec/2011

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Comment on the pros and cons of privatization of social welfare services in Hong Kong society. Use the “LINK-REIT” as an example to illustrate your answer.

iven. The scope of privatization to be discussed in this paper will be confined to privatization of public housing.Definition of privatization of welfare servicesPrivatization of welfare services is d ... zation of welfare services is defined as the transfer of the provision of welfare services from the public sector to the private sector. Le Grand & R. Robinson (1984) pointed out that any reductio ...

(17 pages) 3 0 0.0 Mar/2012

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Society and community

Dark Brown Dog

(4 pages) 2 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

The Open Boat

(5 pages) 4 0 0.0 Nov/2014

Subjects: Literature Research Papers