United States Housing and Urban Development (HUD) granted $44 million to revitalize run down public housing developments in Boston and Taunton, according to Barbara Fields, HUD’s Regional Administrator. The grant, announced today, is a part of $153 million awarded to eight public housing agencies nation wide through HUD’s HOPE VI Revitalization Program to revitalize “severely [...]
Toronto neighborhoods making it tough for potential disabled residents
Feb. 28, 2009 3 Comments
In several Toronto districts, disabled human beings are the target or unnecessary prejudice. Residents of certain communities feel that the introduction of rooming houses, often the only option of housing for disabled people living on their own, will decrease property value, and that the disabled people themselves will decrease the quality of the neighborhood.
