Good morning. Wednesday in Whitewater will be mostly sunny with a high of 58. Sunrise is 6:49 AM and sunset 6:40 PM for 11h 50m 44s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.6% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Parks & Recreation Board meets at 5:30 PM. On this day in 1781,…
Housing
Babbittry, City, Corporate Welfare, Culture, Daily Bread, Economy, Free Markets, Housing, Hubris, Hypocrisy, Local Government
Daily Bread for 9.27.22: Housing Opportunity and Opportunity’s Adversaries
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Good morning. Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 56. Sunrise is 6:48 AM and sunset 6:42 PM for 11h 53m 38s of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 2.8% of its visible disk illuminated. Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 4:30 PM. On this day in 1777, Lancaster, Pennsylvania becomes…
Daily Bread, Housing, Poverty
Daily Bread for 6.27.22: Why Link to Houston’s Response to Homelessness?
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Daily Bread, Housing, Poverty
Daily Bread for 6.26.22: ‘How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own’
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City, Housing, Local Government, Police, Press
Broken Policymaking Over a Voucher Program
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Whitewater has a local government that taxes and legislates, and that hires officials who exercise authority over the city’s residents, in a nine-square-mile area. Our local government has its own municipal building, in which it holds regular public meetings, and in which officials can talk to each other and residents in person, by email, text,…
Federal Government, Housing, Poverty
Frontline: Poverty, Politics and Profit (Full Film)
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FRONTLINE and NPR investigate the billions spent on affordable housing, and why so few get the help they need. In a nine-month investigation that takes FRONTLINE and NPR from Dallas to Miami, NPR’s Laura Sullivan and FRONTLINE’s Rick Young find that just one in four households eligible for Section 8 assistance are getting it, and…