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  • Cruel Obama to ban smoking in welfare housing

    11/30/2016 6:18:03 PM PST · by Sean_Anthony · 61 replies
    Canada Free Press ^ | 11/30/16 | Matthew Vadum
    The policy will be viewed as punitive and cruel and noncompliance will be widespread. It is incredibly foolish and unkind. The U.S. Department of Homewrecking and Utopian Development (HUD) said it plans to forbid smoking in public housing units to protect millions of low-income tenants from the ridiculously over-hyped effects of secondhand tobacco smoke. The ban will affect more than 940,000 units of housing subsidized by federal taxpayers. “Every child deserves to grow up in a safe, healthy home free from harmful second-hand cigarette smoke,” head HUD honcho Julián Castro said in a statement.
  • NYPD: Crime up 30 percent in housing projects (New York City)

    04/07/2014 3:59:29 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 28 replies
    MyFoxNY ^ | 4-6-14 | LISA EVERS
    Some of the mayoral candidates, including the current mayor spent a night in the Lincoln housing projects, vowing to make conditions better for the residents It's a fine line between life and death at Harlem’s Lincoln Houses even on a sunny Sunday, the teens hang out and talk with their friends. But instead of dreaming about the future, 17 year old K'shonna Johnson says they worry about staying alive. “Just to see people I know passed away....I hear a lot of gun shots, violence due to drugs" the teen told us. The NYPD says that that crime in public housing...