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Episode 103: The Black Male Teenager Host: Dewhitt L. BinghamBingham is podcasting solo in this episode. Of the 103 episodes, he has rarely taken the opportunity to speak about a subject that is near and dear to his heart. He takes the time to speak about the black male teenager.  Easter SundayThe influence of Christ JesusSingle mothers and fathersParents who remain together to care for their childAmari LeeGarrick Dickerson Jr.Integrity Deliverance ChurchCriminal Justice an interdisciplinary fieldBooker T. WashingtonWEB DuboisDr. Martin Luther King Jr.Thurgood MarshallPresident Clinton's Housing Act of 1996President Nixon's Employment and Training Act of 1973Heartland Community College's Film Festival“Chicago at a Crossroads”McLean County Youth BuildWhat I'd like to see the Trump administration accomplishYou can listen to the JFA Podcast Show wherever you get your podcast or by clicking on one of the links below.https://dlbspodcast.buzzsprout.com    https://blog.feedspot.com/social_justice_podcasts/    https://peculiarbooks.org   Dr. Charles Bell “Suspended”https://www.amazon.com/Suspended-Punishment-Violence-Failure-School/dp/1421442469 Also if you are interested in exercise and being healthy check out the Top 20 Triathlon Podcasts.https://blog.feedspot.com/triathlon_podcasts/ Email Address: dewhitt.bingham@peculiarbooks.org 

Claudia Center is a leading disability rights attorney dedicated to advancing civil rights through litigation, policy, and advocacy. She previously served as a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU and directed the disability rights program at Legal Aid at Work. She played a key role in expanding protections under the Fair Employment and Housing Act and argued US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett before the U.S. Supreme Court. A recipient of the Paul G. Hearne Award, she has taught disability law at Berkeley and Hastings. A Berkeley Law graduate, she also worked with NARAL and held a Women's Law Fellowship.Claudia Center is a leading disability rights attorney dedicated to advancing civil rights through litigation, policy, and advocacy. She previously served as a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU and directed the disability rights program at Legal Aid at Work. She played a key role in expanding protections under the Fair Employment and Housing Act and argued US Airways, Inc. v. Barnett before the U.S. Supreme Court. A recipient of the Paul G. Hearne Award, she has taught disability law at Berkeley and Hastings. A Berkeley Law graduate, she also worked with NARAL and held a Women's Law Fellowship.

In this episode of The Accidental Landlord, host Peter McKenzie sheds light on the growing risk of landlords facing lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Housing Act (FHA). These laws, while designed to protect tenants' rights, have also been exploited by serial lawsuit filers who target landlords and business owners. Peter breaks down the key areas of compliance, including parking accommodations, accessibility routes, and tenant communication requirements. Through real-world case studies, he illustrates how landlords have been caught in legal battles—sometimes for minor infractions. He also discusses California-specific laws that further complicate the legal landscape for landlords. If you own rental property, this is a must-listen episode to help you understand: ✔️ How the ADA and FHA apply to landlords ✔️ The risks of predatory lawsuits and how to avoid them ✔️ Real case studies of landlords facing legal action ✔️ Best practices to protect yourself and your investment Key Takeaways: The ADA applies to public areas of multifamily properties, while the FHA covers tenant accommodations inside rental units. Serial lawsuit filers often target landlords for minor infractions, costing them thousands in legal fees. California laws add extra layers of compliance, including the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the Fair Employment and Housing Act. Landlords must take accommodation requests seriously, especially for service/support animals and accessibility modifications. Proactive inspections and compliance checks can help landlords avoid costly legal trouble. Resources & Next Steps:

Today, we nod to the past while paving a new way forward for the future of anti-racist community development. This episode explores the layered history of American community development and the policies that have shaped — if not torn — the fabric of our communities.If we're going to achieve community development that is actually anti-racist, a baseline understanding of its history is not only a prerequisite.To build that fundamental understanding, Third Space Action Lab's Anti-Racist Community Development research project documents some of the early exclusionary government policies that shaped U.S. communities and responses of community development, from the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932 to the Housing Act of 1949.In today's episode, we hear from Tonika Johnson, a social justice artists visualizing the arc of community development in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood (read more about her Folded Map art project) and historian Claire Dunning, an associate professor at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy and author of “Nonprofit Neighborhoods: An Urban History of Inequality and the American State.” “The ways that federal housing policy is being designed and implemented is enabling white families to build equity, and Black families, if they're able to buy housing, are not able to build equity at the same rates or in the same kinds of ways,” says Dunning, whose research focuses on how nonprofits have used and critiqued government funding to develop alternative responses to urban problems. “It's just more expensive to occupy housing as a Black family … as a result of the ways that the government has intervened.” This sponsored episode was produced in partnership with Third Space Action Lab. Its Anti-Racist Community Development research project was developed with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The views expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views of the Foundation. To learn more about strategies for advancing practical, concrete change in the sector, visit The People's Practice.

A pioneer in her field, Catherine Bauer Wurster was advisor to five presidents on urban planning and housing and was one of the primary authors of the Housing Act of 1937. During the 1930s she wrote the influential book Modern Housing and was one of the leaders of the "housers" movement, advocating for affordable housing for low-income families.  Catherine Bauer's life divided into two names and two geographies:  her urban east coast youth, and her later life in the Bay Area. She hobnobbed with the bohemian elite of the interwar years….brilliantly charming  the big architect names of the Weimar Republic, Paris cafe society, and the International Style:  Gropius, Mies, Corbusier, Oud, May, and her lover, Lewis Mumford. Her glamour and charismatic presence endeared her to trade unionists, labor leaders, and politicians—who she tried to turn to her vision of housing as a worthy responsibility of the government—sexier and leftier during the Depression. Her arguments were a harder sell in the red scare fifties and ran into a dreary deadlock in the suburban sixties, as she later wrote from her west coast stronghold at the University of California, Berkeley. In the Bay Area she developed an academic career that also included her husband architect William Wurster, a daughter, and a house on the bay – all surrounded by the nature she quickly grew to love. Her legacy lives on to this day, as even the latest of housing legislation echoes the progressive ideals she was advocating for in her prime.  Produced by Brandi Howell for the New Angle Voice podcast from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Editorial advising from Alexandra Lange. Thanks to host Cynthia Phifer Kracauer. Special thanks in this episode to Barbara Penner, Gwendolyn Wright, Sadie Super, Matthew Gordon Lasner, Katelin Penner, and Carol Galante.  Archival recordings are from the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library. Funding from the New York State Council on the Arts.The Kitchen Sisters Present is produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Nikki Silva & Davia Nelson) with Nathan Dalton and Brandi Howell. The Kitchen Sisters Present is part of Radiotopia from PRX.

President-elect Donald Trump's win and his subsequent creation of a Department of Government Efficiency have galvanized lawmakers to pave the way for legislation to clean out diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies, staff and programs that have ballooned under the Biden-Harris administration. The Center Square was given advance copy of two bills filed Thursday by U.S. Rep. Bob Good, R-La., to end DEI practices at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The first bill, the Flexibility in Housing Act of 2024, would block a Biden-Harris administration rule at HUD. That rule is about to be finalized and would require HUD grant recipients to implement “equity-driven housing plans.”

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A Bill to amend the Housing Act has been published. It aims to improve the legislative framework governing both public housing and private rent control. On Government Housing, it aims to modernise the legislation to allow for modern relationships, while the second half of the Act aims to remove unfair rent protection to avoid old properties falling into disrepair. Our reporter Shelina Assomull has been looking at the proposed new law.The digital world is growing. Most of us carry around a smart phone that allows us to access the internet and share personal moments with just a few taps. But are some of us oversharing? And are we creating a digital footprint from an increasingly young age? The Regulatory Authority has issued the results of its latest Privacy Awareness School Survey titled, “Your Digital Footprint”. The GRA's Louise Busto came to the studio to discuss the findings.It's Dyslexia Awareness Week and we're looking into a condition of neurodevelopmental origin that mainly affects reading, writing and spelling. It's usually recognised as a specific learning disorder in children. Whilst typical dyslexic challenges include reading skills, memory abilities, and coordination and time management, there are many strengths association with dyslexia too - leadership and social influence, creativity and initiative, and analytical thinking and innovation. Claire Francis & Joseph Samson to tell us more about the disorder.And, Jose Mari Ruiz brought us up to speed with the weekend sport, including yesterday's UEC Mountain Bike Eliminator European Championship, the latest football fixtures and success for the Angry Chill Brazilian Ju Jitsu Club in Madrid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A voter registration deadline is fast approaching.New housing opportunities are coming for Cherokee citizens.Changes are coming to OU and OSU football teams in the polls.You can find the KOSU Daily wherever you get your podcasts, you can also subscribe, rate us and leave a comment.You can keep up to date on all the latest news throughout the day at KOSU.org and make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at KOSU Radio.This is The KOSU Daily, Oklahoma news, every weekday.

This Day in Legal History: Federal Housing Act PassedOn this day in legal history, July 15, 1949, Congress passed the Federal Housing Act, a pivotal piece of legislation that aimed to address the nation's post-war housing crisis. This Act, also known as the Housing Act of 1949, was a key component of President Harry S. Truman's Fair Deal program. It marked a significant federal commitment to improving living conditions for low-income Americans. The Act provided federal funding for slum clearance, urban renewal projects, and the construction of low-rent public housing. Title I of the Act focused on urban renewal, authorizing the use of federal funds to clear blighted areas in cities. Title II aimed to increase the availability of low-rent public housing by providing subsidies for the construction of new units. The legislation intended not only to address the housing shortage but also to stimulate the economy by creating construction jobs.The passage of the Federal Housing Act of 1949 reflected a growing recognition of the government's role in ensuring decent housing for all citizens. However, its implementation also sparked controversy and criticism, particularly regarding the displacement of communities and the effectiveness of urban renewal efforts. Despite these challenges, the Act laid the groundwork for subsequent federal housing policies and programs, shaping the landscape of American cities and the lives of countless families. This landmark legislation underscored the ongoing struggle to balance development, equity, and community preservation in urban policy.A federal judge in Florida, Aileen Cannon, dismissed the criminal case against Donald Trump concerning his alleged illegal retention of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago resort. The ruling followed a hearing where Trump's legal team argued for dismissal, citing selective prosecution and political targeting by Democrats as Trump seeks the presidency again. They also referenced a Supreme Court decision granting the president immunity for official acts. In contrast, President Joe Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence faced no criminal charges for their mishandling of classified documents, as both cooperated with investigators. Prosecutors had argued Trump's case was different due to allegations he obstructed the investigation by moving documents and discussing deceit with investigators. The dismissed charges had included 40 counts related to national security issues like nuclear capabilities and military vulnerabilities.Florida judge dismisses criminal classified documents case against TrumpFollowing the Supreme Court's decision to limit federal regulators' powers, the Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration Association and two show horse owners filed a lawsuit against a new USDA rule aimed at preventing horse soring. The case was strategically filed in Amarillo, Texas, to be heard by US District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, known for rulings against Biden administration policies. Plaintiffs argue the USDA rule, which bans devices and practices that can mask evidence of soring, will significantly devalue their horses, leading to a regulatory taking. The rule specifically targets Tennessee Walking Horses and Racking Horses, prohibiting chains, pads, wedges, and lubricants used to enhance their gait.The lawsuit comes in the wake of the Supreme Court's June 28 decision to end Chevron deference, which had required courts to defer to an agency's reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous law. This case exemplifies the swift actions taken by anti-regulation groups to leverage the new regulatory landscape. Despite not explicitly mentioning Chevron or Loper Bright, the lawsuit challenges the USDA's authority under the Horse Protection Act, claiming the banned equipment does not cause soring based on scientific evidence.Legal experts note the potential implications of this case, suggesting it could influence future regulatory policymaking. Critics argue the association is engaging in judge shopping to secure a favorable outcome. The plaintiffs seek to invalidate the rule and claim compensation for the anticipated loss in their horses' value, arguing the rule constitutes a regulatory taking. The outcome of this case could set a significant precedent in the context of administrative law and regulatory challenges.The concept of regulatory taking is central to this case. It refers to a situation where a government regulation limits the use of private property to such an extent that it effectively deprives the owners of its value, warranting compensation. This claim, if accepted by the court, could complicate future regulatory efforts by requiring compensation for loss in property value due to regulatory changes.Tennessee Horse Show Picks Texas to Challenge Rule Post ChevronA divided federal appeals court upheld Tennessee's longstanding policy prohibiting changes to the sex listed on birth certificates, rejecting a constitutional challenge by four transgender women. The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 that the U.S. Constitution does not mandate Tennessee to amend birth certificates to reflect gender identity. The court concluded that Tennessee has the discretion to maintain records based on biological sex. The plaintiffs argued that the policy violated their due process and equal protection rights under the 14th Amendment by discriminating based on sex and transgender status. However, Chief U.S. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Sutton, representing the majority, stated that there is no fundamental right to have a birth certificate reflect gender identity over biological sex. Tennessee's Republican attorney general, Jonathan Skrmetti, supported the ruling, emphasizing that any policy change must come from the state's residents.The plaintiffs' lawyer, Omar Gonzalez-Pagan from Lambda Legal, expressed disappointment and indicated potential further actions. He highlighted that the ruling conflicts with a recent decision by the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which revived a similar lawsuit in Oklahoma. Judge Helene White, who dissented, argued that Tennessee's policy relies on outdated generalizations about sex and gender, infringing on the plaintiffs' rights by forcing them to disclose their transgender status in situations requiring birth certificates.Court upholds Tennessee ban on changing sex in birth certificates | ReutersOpenAI whistleblowers have filed a complaint with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), urging an investigation into the company's non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). These agreements allegedly required employees to waive their federal rights to whistleblower compensation. The whistleblowers, supported by Sen. Chuck Grassley's office, claim that OpenAI's policies suppress employees' rights to report concerns and receive compensation for protected disclosures. The complaint requests the SEC to impose fines on OpenAI for each improper NDA and to inspect all contracts containing such agreements. The whistleblowers also highlight that OpenAI's NDAs lacked exemptions for disclosing securities violations and required prior company consent to disclose information to federal regulators.Sen. Grassley emphasized the importance of whistleblower protections, especially as artificial intelligence continues to advance rapidly. The SEC has not commented on the existence of the whistleblower submission, and OpenAI has not responded to requests for comment. The complaint highlights concerns about OpenAI's restrictive practices amidst growing scrutiny over the safety and ethical deployment of AI technologies.OpenAI whistleblowers ask SEC to investigate alleged restrictive non-disclosure agreements | Reuters This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

4.25.2024  #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Housing Act 56th Anniv., LA Supreme Court Dist. Maps, SCOTUS & Trump Immunity, Gaza College Protests A Texas Prosecutor appeals ruling that overturned Crystal Mason's illegal voting conviction.  #BlackStarNetwork partners:Fanbase

I teamed up with Griffin Benton from the Maryland Building Industry Association for a heart-to-heart on the Universal Design and Visitability for Housing Act that's revolutionizing homes in Prince George's County, Maryland. We're marking International Day of Acceptance for Disability by celebrating the strides in inclusivity this legislation promises. Griffin provides an insider's view of the industry's initial hesitations and the ultimate community benefits envisioned. We also navigate the resources available for those adapting to the evolving housing landscape, thanks to organizations like the National Association of Home Builders.As we anticipate the 2026 mandate transforming housing accessibility standards, our dialogue unpacks the act's details such as zero-step entries and wider doorways. These features signal a future where every home welcomes people with disabilities, aligning with the "visitability" and "universal design" movements. We evaluate the practical implications for homeowners and builders, considering the challenges of waivers and administrative hurdles. Our conversation underscores the importance of such foresight to minimize future retrofitting expenses, crafting an inclusive environment from the ground up.Finally, we delve into the broader themes of disability and homeownership. I share my own journey, reflecting on the varied economic backgrounds within the disability community that are often overlooked in real estate. We shed light on the significant yet diverse minority that is people with disabilities and their aspirations for homeownership. From appraisals that reflect the value of universal design to the long-term vision for adaptable, aesthetically pleasing homes, this episode is a tribute to the pursuit of an inclusive society. Join us as we champion a future where every door is open, and every room is a space for all.For transcript click here. Support the showClick for: Feedback Survey Facebook Linkden www.horizontalhouses.comAccessibilityishome@gmail.com

EDUCATION Ruben Sundeen University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Juris Doctor, May 1996California Law Review, Member 1994-1996 Boalt Hall Students Association, President 1995-1996 University of California, Davis, University Extension Hazardous Substances Program Certificate, Site Assessment and Remediation, May 1993 University of California, Berkeley B.A. Philosophy, May 1988 EXPERIENCE Judge,  Superior Court of California, County of Alameda. Jan. 2019 to present.Commissioner,  Court commissioner (sworn on January 18, 2019) assigned to the probate department (201), conducting procedural and evidentiary hearings, and trials of all matters falling under the California Probate Code, including probate, trust, guardianship and conservatorship matters. Partner, Sundeen & Salinas, Oakland, CA. 1998 to 2004, and 2017 to 2018. Principal and managing attorney with general civil practice emphasizing trust and estate litigation as well as real estate and commercial transactions and litigation. Other areas of the firm's practice include Federal Title VII, State Fair Employment and Housing Act, and landlord-tenant litigation. Partner, Sundeen Salinas & Pyle, Oakland, CA. 2004 to 2017. Principal and managing attorney with general civil practice emphasizing trust and estate litigation as well as real estate and commercial transactions and litigation. Other areas of the firm's practice include Federal Title VII, State Fair Employment and Housing Act, consumer class actions, personal injury, criminal defense, and landlord-tenant litigation. ACTIVITIES Rotary International Rotary Club of Oakland Uptown Member 1996 to present President 1999-2000 & 2011-2012 Rotary International District 5170 Area One Governor, 2018-2020 East Bay La Raza Lawyers Association Member, 1997 to present President 2004, 2007 & 2008 Alameda County Bar Association Board Member, 2010-2016 Chair of Litigation Subsection of Trusts & Estates Section,, 2009-2010  Louis Goodman www.louisgoodman.comhttps://www.lovethylawyer.com/510.582.9090Music: Joel Katz, Seaside Recording, MauiTech: Bryan Matheson, Skyline Studios, OaklandAudiograms: Paul Roberts louis@lovethylawyer.com

In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber Helpline manager and employment law counsel Matthew Roberts and Chris Micheli, of Aprea & Micheli, give an update on important labor and employment-related bills in the California Legislature that employers should keep an eye on, such as SB 616, which expands California's paid sick leave law; AB 524, which adds a new protected class under the Fair Employment and Housing Act; SB 399, which bans employers' speech; SB 365, which undermines arbitration; and SB 809, which prohibits consideration of conviction history in employment.

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4.11.2023 #RolandMartinUnfiltered: Fair Housing Act 55th Anniversary, TN Justin Jones Reinstated, DA Bragg sues Rep Jim Jordan Today marks the 55th Anniversary of the Housing Act, and today we will commemorate the historical significance and importance of the act for family and community health, economic stability, and human relations. We will discuss progress with the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity. Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones returns to the state house vowing to continue fighting for stricter gun laws after he and Rep Justin Pearson were expelled last week for violating decorum laws by protesting on the state House floor. He'll join us tonight to let talk about his first day back.   The Louisiana governor's race is underway, with nine candidates on the ballot. We will speak with the only black candidate, Shawn Wilson, about why he should be elected Louisiana's next governor. In a 50-page lawsuit, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg accuses GOP House Judiciary chairman Jim Jordan of a "brazen and unconstitutional attack" on the prosecution of Trump. We will break down what this means for Donald Trump and the GOP. Are you feeling overwhelmed trying to manage all your administrative tasks and meetings? In our MarketPlace segment, we speak with the Founders of Essynce Virtual Assistants, A Virtual Assistant that works with you to help you manage your business and lifestyle. Download the #BlackStarNetwork app on iOS, AppleTV, Android, Android TV, Roku, FireTV, SamsungTV and XBox  http://www.blackstarnetwork.com The #BlackStarNetwork is a news reporting platforms covered under Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this weeks podcast, we take a look at Defective Housing, and the Housing Act 1985. Please subscribe for more advice and information! Stay in touch with us: Website: https://www.property-elite.co.uk/Linkdin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/propertyelite/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/propertyelitej/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ricsapc/Twitter: https://twitter.com/propertyelitej --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/property-elite/message

There were some interesting cases out of Nova Scotia this week, including the Crown's successful appeal of Colin Tweedy's acquittal on the death of 10 year old Talia Forrest, and the retrial of Dal Med student William Sanderson for the murder of fellow student Taylor Samson. There is a new Federal tax in place, which seem to be encroaching on Provincial jurisdiction. The Underused Housing Act targets residential properties that are owned by non-citizens or non-residents, and imposes an annual tax of 1% of the value. The big story of the week internationally is the announcement that Alec Baldwin would be arrested for involuntary manslaughter (the equivalent of Criminal Negligence Causing Death in the Canadian Criminal Code) following the shooting death of the cinematographer on the set of the film 'Rust' in 2021. Baldwin had a gun that was to be a prop in the film. The charges should not have been laid against Baldwin, and this seems to be an effort by the District Attorney to get her 15 minutes.

A bill in the City Council seeks to ban landlords from running criminal backgrounds on prospective tenants. Keith Powers, New York City Council Member (District 4, Midtown Manhattan and UES), who introduced this legislation, discusses what's at stake.

Opening the mailbag, Del Walmsley answers questions from real estate investors looking for direction in the housing market and talks about the new California tax on real estate transactions over $5 million dollars.   Click to Listen Now

Memoirist Emi Nietfeld joins Fiction/Non/Fiction hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell to discuss how the pandemic has caused an increase in unhoused Americans as well as common—and off-base—tropes associated with homelessness. Nietfeld, who as a teenager spent time in foster care and living out of her car, talks about the American urge to view suffering as something that makes you stronger. She reads from her new book, Acceptance; reflects on being expected to shape a story about overcoming hardship to access an Ivy League education; and explains how she ultimately chose to resist simpler narratives of grit and resilience.  To hear the full episode, subscribe through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below. Check out video versions of our interviews on the Fiction/Non/Fiction Instagram account, the Fiction/Non/Fiction YouTube Channel, and our show website: https://www.fnfpodcast.net/. This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf. Selected Readings: Emi Nietfeld Acceptance  Others: In the Midst of Plenty by Marybeth Shinn and Jill Khadduri The Invisible Child by Andrea Elliott Random Family by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson Miles from Nowhere by Nami Mun United States: Pandemic Impact on People in Poverty | Human Rights Watch  Minneapolis: City Response to Homelessness HUD Releases 2021 Annual Homeless Assessment Report Part 1 Homelessness in America State of Homelessness: 2021 Edition Inflation and rent increases are making homelessness worse - The Washington Post America's Homelessness Crisis Is Getting Worse - The New York Times Rep. Omar Reintroduces Homes for All, Manufactured Housing Legislation A New Bill Would Declare Housing as a Human Right - Progressive.org Housing is a Human Right Act of 2021 H.R.4496 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Ending Homelessness Act of 2021 H.R.7191 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): Homes for All Act of 2021  Guidance on Complying With the Maximum Number of Units Eligible for Operating Subsidy Pursuant to Section 9(g)(3)(A) of the Housing Act of 1937 (aka the Faircloth Limit)  Representatives Davis, Gomez, Peters, and Panetta Introduce the “Rent Relief Act of 2022” to Establish a Renters' Tax Credit | National Low Income Housing Coalition We Need to Keep Building Houses, Even if No One Wants to Buy Congress is 35 years overdue on its promise to end homelessness | The Hill Kansas City to Temporarily House Homeless People in Hotels 1780 Foster Kids Went Missing in Missouri Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So why is the food history of a community so important? And can Durham's food history be applied to other places? Who owns land, who can grow food and make a living doing so, and who has access to food, any food, least of all healthy food? The answers are deeply influenced by historical policies and practices. These in retrospect, clearly exacerbated, supported, and even created food related calamities, the dual burden communities face of both food insecurity and diet related chronic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. Understanding these practices is important in creating change. And in understanding that conditions imposed on neighborhoods rather than personal failings of residents explain what we see today. This is a story about Durham, North Carolina. These days, Durham is famous as one of the South's foodiest towns and known for its award-winning chefs, thriving restaurant scene, and reverence for even the most humble foods served with down-home charm. But Durham, just like the rest of North Carolina, like other states and other countries, has discouraging any high rates of food insecurity. This is juxtaposed to high rates as well of obesity, diabetes, and other diet-related chronic diseases. It is helpful of course, to know how things are now, but a more complex and highly important question is how we got here. Enter history. What can be learned from a detailed historical analysis, in this case of Durham, and how relevant is this information to other places?   The Duke World Food Policy Center worked with historian, Melissa Norton to write a report titled, "Power and Benefit On The Plate The History of Food in Durham, North Carolina". This recording is an abridged version of that report and features documented historical quotes from the relevant periods in history as read by contemporary voices.   Let's go back to the beginning. Durham, North Carolina is the ancestral home of the Occaneechi, the Eno, the Adshusheer and the Shocco indigenous peoples. Before European colonizers came, land was not something that people owned. Instead land and its natural resources were shared so that everyone could benefit.   “To our people land was everything, identity, our connection to our ancestors, our pharmacy, the source of all that sustained us. Our lands, were where our responsibility to the world was enacted, sacred ground. It belonged to itself. It was a gift, not a commodity. It could never be bought or sold.”  Robin Kimmerer, Potawatomi Nation.   Durham's tribes and clans supported themselves through hunting, foraging and communal farming. They managed the habitat for fish, fowl and other wild animal populations. They used controlled fires to clear land, had complex farming irrigation systems and created a network of roads for trade and exchange. When European settler colonists came into North Carolina life for indigenous people changed dramatically. At first, they taught colonists how to forage and clear land, what to plant and how to care for crops. The colonists came to North Carolina believed that they had the spiritual, political and legal blessing of Pope Alexander the sixth through the doctrine of discovery. This decree labeled indigenous peoples as subhuman because they were not Christian and treated their land as available for the taking.   “The Indians are really better to us than we are to them. They always give us rituals at their quarters and take care we are armed against hunger and thirst. We do not do so by them, generally speaking, but let them walk by our doors hungry and do not often relieve them. We look upon them with scorn and disdain and think them little better than beasts in humane shape. Though if we're examined, we shall find that for all our religion and education, we possess more moralities and evil than these savages do not.” John Lawson, English settler colonist in North Carolina, 1709.   Settlers forced native people off ancestral homelands and took possession of the stolen land and its resources. As a result, many indigenous people left to join other tribes, some hid in order to remain in the area. And some were forced into assimilation programs or enslaved and shipped to the Caribbean.   Going back to the early colonial settlers, most were small scale farmers who grew corn, fruits and vegetables and commodities such as tobacco, wheat, and cotton for their own use or to barter. As farms grew from the 1500s through the 1800s, colonists brought West African people by force to use as free farm labor. West Africans brought seeds from their homelands and foods such as hibiscus, yams and sweet potatoes, watermelon and bananas and millet, okra and sorghum became a permanent part of the Southern food culture. Food was an essential connection to home, to community and resiliency. Indigenous and enslaved African people interacted and exchanged practical and cultural traditions.   “My name is Alex Woods. I was born in 1858. In slavery time I belonged to Jim Woods. My Missus name was Patty Woods. They treated us tolerable fair. Our food was well cooked. We were fed from the kitchen of the great house during the week. We cooked and ate at our home Saturday nights and Sundays. They allowed my father to hunt with a gun. He was a good hunter and brought a lot of game to the plantation. They cooked it at the great house and divided it up. My father killed deer and turkey. All had plenty of rabbits, possum, coons and squirrels.” Alex Woods   In 1854, the development of the North Carolina railroad transformed agricultural markets. The farming economy shifted from fruits, vegetables, and grains toward large scale cash crops, such as tobacco. The railroad stop in Durham became the center of the city. By the time the civil war began in 1861, nearly one out of three people in Durham county were enslaved. A quarter of the area's white farmers legally owned enslaved people. Cameron Plantation was the largest plantation in the state with 30,000 acres and 900 enslaved people.   To be self sufficient, create security and build wealth. People needed to own land. The federal government passed the homestead act of 1862 to create new land ownership opportunities. As a result in the west 246 million acres of native people's land were deeded to 1.5 million white families.   That same year, the federal government also passed the moral act. This established North Carolina State University in Raleigh as a land grant university to teach white students practical agricultural science, military science and engineering. 29 years later in 1891, North Carolina Agriculture and Technology University in Greensboro was established to serve black students, but the institutions were never funded equally.   In 1865, the civil war ended at Bennett Place in Durham with the largest surrender of Confederate troops. Reconstruction occurred in the subsequent years from 1865 to 1877. During this time, Durham struggled with its own political, social and economic challenges. One of which were the circumstances faced by formerly enslaved people who were freed with no land, no jobs, no money and no citizenship rights. Historians estimate that more than a million freed black people in the country became sick for malnutrition, disease and near starvation. And tens of thousands of people died.   Listen to the words of Martha Allen, a young black woman at the time.   “I was never hungry till we was free and the Yankees fed us. We didn't have nothing to eat, except heart attack and Midland meat. I never seen such meat. It was thin and tough with a thick skin. You could boil it all day and all night and it couldn't cook. I wouldn't eat it. I thought it was mule meat. Mules that done been shot on the battlefield then dried. I still believe it was mule meat. Them was bad days. I was hungry most of the time and had to keep fighting off them Yankee mans.” Martha Allen   In the years after the war, a few people had cash, but landowners still needed farm labor, poor farmers and families of all races struggled. Landowners began hiring farm labor through share cropping and tenant farm contracts.   “The Negros have as their compensation, a share of the crops that shall be raised one third part of the wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco, syrup, peas, sweet potatoes and pork. But the seed wheat is to be first passed back to the said Cameron, the hogs to be killed or pork shall be fattened out of the corn crop before division. The said Cameron is to have the other two thirds of said crops.” Cameron share cropping contract 1866.   Sharecroppers work plots of farmland, and then received a fraction of the crop yield for themselves as payment. For newly freed black people. Many of whom worked the same land, lived in the same housing and worked under the close supervision of the same overseers sharecropping felt like slavery under another name.   In 1868 and 1877 North Carolina passed the landlord tenant acts, which legalized the power imbalance between landowners and sharecropping farmers. For poor farmers there was simply no way to get ahead. And so-called black codes, laws enacted throughout the south in the 1860s and beyond denied black people the right to vote, to serve on juries or to testify in court against white people. With tenant farming, workers paid rent to landowners and kept all the proceeds from the crops.   “We lived all over the area because we were tenant farmers, very poor living on the land of the owner who was of course, white. We used his mules and he paid for the seed and the tobacco and the stuff that we planted. Of course, as I look back now, I know how they cheated us because we never had anything.” Theresa Cameron Lyons, 1868, on growing up in a black tenant farming family in Durham County.   North Carolina politics during this time was dominated by white supremacist ideology and by efforts to keep blacks from voting and from holding political office. In 1896, the US Supreme Court ruled that separate but equal treatment of blacks was legally permissible. This created the legal basis of racial apartheid known as Jim Crow. From 1896 to 1964 Jim Crow laws imposed racial segregation on nearly all aspects of life, including schools, transportation, and public facilities. These laws institutionalized economic, educational and social disadvantages for black and indigenous people, such court sanction exclusion combined with violence and intimidation from white people created severely hostile living conditions for North Carolina's black people. As a result, registered black voters in North Carolina plummeted from 126,000 in 1896 to only 6,100 in 1902.   As the year 1900 dawned, more than half of the US population were farmers or lived in rural communities. Durham County was still largely farmland, but there was incredible urban growth in the early decades of the 1900s. This too had an impact on Durham's food and the community.   Demand for tobacco and textile factory workers was growing in Durham. Although only white workers could work in the textile factories. Both black and white migrants found work in Durham's Liggett Myers and American tobacco factories. Black workers had the lowest pay, most backbreaking jobs in the factories and were paid less than the white workers.   Outside the factories black women had more job opportunities than black men, but as cooks and domestic servants. And they also held some administrative positions. As people traded farm life for the city, they had to adjust to a new way of life. This meant living off wages in the new cash economy and the crowded close quarters of urban living.   Textile mill owners in the East Durham Edgemont and West Durham areas built subsidized mill villages to provide housing for white workers close to the factories. Each mill village had its own churches, schools, recreation centers, and stores.   “Yeah, it was a complete store. They'd have very few wise work in the mills. They would have a man that went out in the morning, they'd call it taking orders. He'd go to all the houses and the woman of the house and tell him what she wanted. He'd bring it back in time to be cooked and served up for what they called dinner, which is of course lunch. And he'd go do the same thing in the afternoon. Have it back in time for a good supper.”  Zeb Stone, 1915, a white business owner from West Durham, North Carolina.   Many textile workers had grown up on farms and knew how to garden and raise chickens, pigs, or even cows in their yards. Families preserved extra garden produce and meals for the winter. Home canning became popular and increased during World War I and later in World War II, as food shortages meant rations for canned food. The federal government urged people to rely on produce grown in their own gardens called victory gardens and to share resources with neighbors.   Six predominantly black neighborhoods developed in Durham, along with black churches, schools and businesses, people form close relationships with each other. And even though the yards were often small, many black people also maintained gardens, kept chickens until the local government banned livestock in the city limits in the 1940s. Buying from black businesses meant investing in the whole black community. Community leaders preached how each dollar spent would flow in a wheel of progress throughout black Durham. Neighborhood grocers were owned by and for people who lived in black neighborhoods, here's what longtime Durham state representative Henry Mickey Michelle has to say about growing up in the Hayti area of Durham.   “We didn't have to go across the tracks to get anything done. We had our own savings and loans bank, our own insurance company, our own furniture store, our own tailors, barber shops, grocery stores, the whole nine yards.” Durham state representative Henry Mickey Michelle   Black and white farmers came to Durham's urban areas to sell fresh produce on street corners and created popup farm stands throughout the city. Many came to Hayti, Durham's largest black neighborhood and to the center of black commerce that was dubbed Black Wall Street. Durham established the first official farmer's market then called a curb market in 1911 to connect county farmers with urban consumers.   The federal government helped farmers stay informed of developments in agriculture, home economics, public policy, and the economy. The Smith Lever Act of 1914 launched cooperative extension services out of the land grant universities. In 1914 extension services for Durham County's white people began and services for black communities started in 1917, hoping to draw young people into farming.   Segregated schools in Durham offered agriculture training. Programs for the future farmers of America served white students and new farmers of America programs served black students.   By 1920 farmers comprised 50% of the population in Durham County outside the city core. Nearly half of these were tenant farmers. Arthur Brody, a black man who made his home in Durham had this to say about his family's experience.   “My granddaddy had 50 acres of land. They said he was working for this white family and the man took a liking to him. And back then land was cheap. And that man told him, Robert, what you ought to do is buy an acre of land every month. He gave him $12 a month. So he bought an acre of land a month, a dollar a month for a year. And he bought that farm with 52 acres of land in it. And he built his house out of logs. I remember that log house just as good I can.” Arthur Brody   Black families were beginning to acquire farmland. Although black owned farms were generally smaller and on less productive land than white owned farms. At its peak in 1920, 26% of farms nationally were owned by black farmers.   The shift to industrialized agriculture concentrated on just a few crops, created new pressures for farmers, especially small scale farmers who were already struggling with the depressed economy, depleted soil, outdated farming tools and the constant demand for cash crops, black and white farmers alike struggled with a lack of fair credit and chronic indebtedness. Here is what the Negro Credit Unions of North Carolina had to say about the farm credit system in 1920.   “Perhaps the greatest drawback to the average poor farmer, struggling for a foothold on the soil and trying to make a home for himself and family in the community is the lack of capital. If he buys fertilizer on time, borrows money or contracts to be carried over the cropping season, it is usually at such a ruinous rate of interest that few ever get out from under its painful influence. The man who owns a small farm as well as he who rents one has long been victimized by the credit system.” Negro Credit Unions of North Carolina brochure   In Durham, life still followed the seasonal cycles of farming. There were special times for communal rituals, such as berry picking, corn shucking and peach canning. Mary Mebane described growing up in a black farming community in Northern Durham County in this way.   “Berry picking was a ritual, a part of the rhythm of summer life. I went to bed excited. We didn't know whose berries they were. Nobody had heard about the idea of private property. Besides the berries wild, free for everybody. The grown people picked up high and the children picked low. We children ate them on the spot, putting purple stained fingers into our mouths, creating purple stained tongues while the grown people wiped sweat and dodged bumblebees.” Mary Mebane   Many black Durhamites joined in the great migration of black people to cities in the North and Western parts of the country. More than 6 million black people left the South between 1917 and 1970. Those who stayed found themselves caught between traditional farming culture and an increasingly modernized urban world and black farmers had the further burden of discrimination in federal farm lending programs, which hampered their ability to sustain, adapt and expand their farming.   In the 1930s, the country was grappling with a great depression and the dust bowl. The textile industry was hit hard by the reception and white textile factory workers struggled. Families survived on cheap fat back, flower beans and their own homegrown produce. Through bouts of unemployment or underemployment. Hunger was never far off. Durham's black working class occupied the bottom rung of the economic ladder even before the great depression. Poverty and food insecurity increased to such an extent that black Durhamites were six times more likely to develop pellagra than whites in 1930. Pellagra is a disease caused by niacin deficiency. It was the leading cause of death in the city after tuberculosis. Nurses counseled Durham's black residents to eat green vegetables and fresh milk, but they were told that economics not lack of knowledge led to poor eating habits.   As one black patient remarked: “We would like to do everything you say, but we just haven't got the money.”   During the great depression, the food situation became so desperate that the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and the Works Progress Administration and charities such as the Red Cross began distributing food relief. The supplies staved off hunger to some extent, but black and white residents were both complaining the food wasn't what they would normally eat. Here an unemployed white textile worker in East Durham described his family's struggle with the emergency relief rations during the great depression.   “I go around to the place that the WPA distributes commodities and the last time they gave me four packs of powdered skim milk, five pounds of country butter, three pounds of navy beans, 24 pounds of flour. That was grand flour to mix awful bread. I've tried every way I could think of to cook it. And it ain't been able to do anything with it yet. That stuff just ain't fitting for a dog to eat, but I have to use everything I get. One of the boys gets up early every morning and goes out and picks berries for breakfast. They with butter do make the flour eat a lot better. He wants to pick some for preserves, but we can highly get sugar for our needs right now. But there is something about us that keeps us hoping that in some way, the future will take care of itself.” Unemployed white textile worker in Durham during the Depression   Over time federal, state and local Durham aid efforts shifted toward training and getting people new jobs, but black men and women did not get the same opportunities as Durham's white residents. In 1933, the federal government passed the agriculture adjustment act later known as the farm bill. This legislation raised market prices and paid farmers to rest soils depleted from intensive farming. But this created new problems for small farmers already struggling to survive. Davis Harris reflects on the changes these policies caused in the black farming community of Northern Durham County.   “The federal government started paying farmers to put their soil in what they called the soil bank. At the time the US was producing more grain than they needed. So they asked farmers in order to preserve the land and soil, if they could just let the soil rest. And if you did that for 10 years, the people like me growing up who got public jobs, it was difficult to go back to the farm because you get accustomed to getting paid every month. And to go back to once a year was difficult, almost impossible. And then the farmer's equipment gets obsolete and the facilities get obsolete and there is no help. So I see that as a turning point because you've lost all your resources, your equipment, your facilities, and your workforce, and the farmers are 10 to 12 years older. So a lot of the farmers had to get public jobs so they can get enough credit to draw social security.” Davis Harris   Black land owners also contended with private property laws that put them at a very real disadvantage. Black families had little reason to trust institutions and were far less likely to have a will than white families. So when a property owner died without a legal will, their property passed to all their direct heirs as partial shares. A form of ownership transfer called heirs property. Over several generations property ownership became increasingly unclear as dozens or even hundreds of heirs could own a small share. Heirs were then more vulnerable to land speculators and developers through a legal process called partition action. Speculators would buy off the interest of a single heir. And just one heir, no matter how small their share, and this would force the sale of entire plot of land through the courts. Black farm ownership peaked between 1910 and 1920, and then dropped dramatically due to the changing farm economy, discrimination and coercive means. From 1910 to the 1930s, the total number of farms in Durham declined dramatically. But black farmers lost their land at more than twice the rate of white farmers.   Willie Roberts, a black Durham County mechanic and farmer was interviewed in the 1930s and had this to say about the tensions of the time: “We got some mean neighbors around here. They hate us 'cause we own, and we won't sell. They want to buy it for nothing. They don't like for colored people to own land. They got a white lady, Ms. Jones on the next farm to say that I attacked her. I hope to be struck down by Jesus if I said or did anything she could kick on, it's all prejudiced against a colored family that's trying to catch up with the whites. They hated my father because he owned land and my mother because she taught school and now they're trying to run us off, but we're going to stay on.”   In 1942, many young men were serving in world war II and black agricultural laborers were leaving farms as part of the great migration to Northern and Western states. So the federal government enacted the Bracero Program to address severe farm labor shortages. This allowed contract laborers from Mexico into the country to fill the labor gap. Where you live, determines where you buy food and what food is available. And Durham's black urban residents were grappling with Jim Crow laws and with segregation.   “In all licensed restaurants, public eating places and weenie shops where persons of the white and colored races are permitted to be served with and eat food and are allowed to congregate. There shall be provided separate rooms for the separate accommodation of each race. The partition between such rooms shall be constructed of wood, plaster or brick or like material, and shall reach from the floor to the ceiling…” The code of the city of Durham, North Carolina, 1947, C13 section 42.   Segregation and racial discrimination meant that opportunities for home ownership, loans, and neighborhood improvements favored white people, discriminatory policies and practices also impacted access to nutritious foods and to restaurants and resentment was building.   A black woman recalls her childhood experiences during this time: “When I was a child, the Durham Dairy was a weekly stop on Sunday evenings as part of our family drive, we would park, go into the counter and then return to the car with our ice cream. After my father finished his, we would drive around Durham while the rest of us finished our ice cream. I had no idea as a young child that the reason we took that ice cream to the car was because the Durham Dairy was segregated and being an African American family we were not allowed to eat our ice cream on the premises. I was shocked to learn as an adult how my parents had been so artful in sparing this ugly truth from me and my younger siblings.”   As early as the 1920s, Durham's white homeowners had to agree to racial covenants on their suburban home and land deeds, such covenants explicitly prevented black ownership and restricted black residents in homes, except for domestic servants. This practice was legal until 1948. The National Association of Real Estate Boards code of ethics at that time directed real estate agents to maintain segregation in the name of safeguarding, neighborhood stability and property values. The industry practice known as steering remained in effect until 1950.   “A realtor should never be instrumental in introducing in a neighborhood members of any race or nationality whose presence will clearly be detrimental to property values in the neighborhood…” National Association of Real Estate Boards code of ethics   The great depression stimulated the country's new deal, social safety net legislation, including the social security act of 1935, which offered benefits and unemployment insurance. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set a national minimum wage and the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 created the right for workers to organize. However, agricultural and domestic workers positions held predominantly by black people during the 1930s were specifically excluded from these programs, losing out on both fair pay and labor protections.   Historian Ira Katznelson wrote extensively about the impact of these policy decisions on the country's African Americans: “Southern legislators understood that their region's agrarian interests and racial arrangements were inextricably entwined. By excluding these persons from new deal legislation it remained possible to maintain racial inequality in Southern labor markets by dictating the terms and conditions of African American labor.”   The federal government also recognized home ownership as one of the best ways to stabilize the economy and expand the middle class. The homeowner's loan corporation, a government sponsored corporation created as part of the new deal developed city maps and color coded neighborhoods according to lending risks, these maps became the model for public and private lending from the 1930s on. In Durham and elsewhere, red lines were drawn around black, mixed race and the poorest white neighborhoods, the effects of redlining now close to a century old had profound effects that are still felt to this day. Over time these maps discourage investment in home ownership and also business development in these areas ringed in red and encouraged and supported these things in white neighborhoods.   By defining some areas as too risky for investment lending practices followed, poverty was exacerbated and concentrated and housing deserts, credit deserts and food deserts became a predictable consequence. Redlining maps also shaped lending practices for the GI Bill Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. The GI Bill made mortgages available to World War II veterans with little or no down payment. And with very low interest rates. The aim was to create financial stability and the accumulation of generational wealth for those who would serve the country through home ownership. However, most homes were in suburban neighborhoods, primarily financed by the federal government. Between redlining lending practices and real estate covenants restricting black buyers, home ownership simply wasn't possible for the vast majority of the 1 million plus black World War II veterans. Between 1935 and 1968, less than 2% of federal home loans were for black people. The GI Bill also did not issue home loans on Indian reservations, which excluded many Native American veterans.   In the late 1950s, Durham received federal money for a local urban renewal program to clear slums and blighted areas through the Housing Act of 1949. The city chose to demolish a large section of the Hayti area, the city's largest and most prominent black neighborhood and home to most black owned businesses. This changed everything. City officials cited the poor physical conditions of Hayti as the reason for demolition. The land was then used to build North Carolina highway 147, a freeway connector.   Louis Austin editor of the Carolina Times wrote in 1965: "The so-called urban renewal program in Durham is not only the biggest farce ever concocted in the mind of moral man, but it is just another scheme to relieve Negroes of property."   Hayti's destruction included a significant part of the neighborhood's food infrastructure, such as grocery stores and restaurants. What was once a thriving and resilient food economy where wealth remained in the community became a food desert.   Nathaniel White, formerly a Hayti business owner in Durham had this to say about the destruction of the Hayti neighborhood: “Well, I think we got something like $32,000 for our business. As I look back on it now, if you're going to drive a freeway right through my building, the only fair thing to do is to replace that building. In other words, I ought to be able to move my equipment and everything into a building. If they do it like that, you will be able to stand the damage. Now, the highway department has a replacement clause in their building, but the urban renewal had what they call fair market value, and that won't replace it. And that's where the handicap comes. Just say, you give them $32,000 that probably would've bought the land or whatever, but it wouldn't put the building back and everything like that.”   In the 1950s, Durham built federally funded housing projects for low income families. But by the late 1960s, public housing in the city was almost exclusively for black people and clustered in existing black neighborhoods. This further reinforced patterns of residential segregation, Durham's lunch counters and restaurants became rallying points during the civil rights movements. North Carolina's first protest was at Durham's Royal ice cream restaurant in 1957.   Virginia Williams, a young black woman at the time was a member of the Royal Ice Cream Nine who staged the protest: “None of it made any sense, but that had been the way of life. And that's the way the older folk had accepted it. And so I guess I was one of them who thought, if not us, who, if not now, when. So the police officers came and they asked us to leave. I remember one of them asking me to leave and I asked for ice cream. And he said, if you were my daughter, I would spank you and make you leave. And then I said, if I was your daughter, I wouldn't be here sitting here being asked to leave.”   In 1962, more than 4,000 people protested at Howard Johnson's Ice Cream Grill in Durham. The struggle to desegregate eateries intensified in 1963, when protesters organized sit-ins at six downtown restaurants on the eve of municipal elections, hundreds of people were arrested and protestors surrounded the jail in solidarity. And in the weeks that followed more than 700 black and white Durhamites ran a full page ad in the Durham Herald newspaper. They pledged to support restaurants and other businesses that adopted equal treatment to all, without regard to race. The mounting public pressure resulted in mass desegregation of Durham Eateries by the end of 1962, ahead of the 1964 federal civil rights act that legally ended segregation.   Although civil rights wins brought about new political, economic and social opportunities for black people, desegregation didn't help black businesses. They suffered economically because black people began to explore new opportunities to shop outside their neighborhoods, but white people didn't patronize black owned businesses in turn.   In 1964, the federal government passed the Food Stamp Act as a means to safeguard people's health and wellbeing and provide a stable foundation for US agriculture. It was also intended to raise levels of nutrition among low income households. The food stamp program was implemented in Durham County in 1966. A decade later the program was in every county in the country.   From 1970 through the 1990s, urban renewal continued to disrupt and reshape Durham central city. As both white and middle class black residents left central Durham for suburban homes, banks and grocery stores disappeared. Textile and tobacco factory jobs were also leaving Durham for good. Thousands of workers became unemployed and the domino effect on home ownership, businesses and workplaces disrupted much of Durham's infrastructure and its community life.   From 1970 through the 1980s, the availability of home refrigerators and microwaves also changed how families stored and cooked their food. Durham already had higher numbers of working women than the national average. As a result, convenience foods, foods from restaurants, prepared meals at grocery stores and microwavable foods from the freezer were in demand.   Like many Americans, Durham residents had become increasingly disconnected from farming and food production, both physically and culturally. Food corporations now used marketing in the media to shape ideas about what to eat and why. The food system became dominated by increasing corporate consolidation and control. And by large scale industrial agriculture emphasizing monoculture. Corporations were fast gaining political and economic power and used their influence to affect trade regulations, tax rates, and wealth distribution.   In the 1980s, the federal government passed legislation that boosted free market capitalism, reduced social safety net spending and promoted volunteerism and charity as a way to reduce poverty and government welfare. These policies negatively impacted Durham's already historically disadvantaged populations. Nonprofit organizations began to emerge to deal with the growing issues of hunger and food insecurity and nonprofit food charity became an industry unto itself. More than 80% of pantries and soup kitchens in the US came into existence between 1980 and 2001.   The H-2A Guest Worker Program of 1986 allowed agricultural workers to hire seasonal foreign workers on special visas who were contracted to a particular farm, but workers did not have the same labor protections as US citizens.   That same year, the US launched the war on drugs to reduce drug abuse and crime. Low income communities were disproportionately targeted when Durham's housing authority paid off duty police officers to patrol high crime areas, particularly public housing developments. Hyper policing, drug criminalization, and logger sentencing for drug related offenses caused incarceration rates to rise steadily. Durham's jail and prison incarceration rates from 1978 to 2015 rose higher than anywhere else in North Carolina.   Here is an excerpt from an interview with Chuck Omega Manning, an activist and director of the city of Durham's welcome program. “Being totally honest, high incarceration rates for people of color is very detrimental to our health. Even in the Durham County Jail, you have a canteen that's run through a private company who only sell certain things like oodles of noodles that are not healthy. And then in prisons, you don't get to eat vegetables unless it's part of your dinner. And even then it's oftentimes still not healthy because of how it's cooked. But if you don't work in the kitchen, you don't get to decide, you just get it how it comes and you pray over it and eat it. But then over time, people get institutionalized in the system. And when they return home, they continue to eat the same way because they're used to it. And the financial piece only enhances that because you have individuals coming home, looking for employment, trying to do something different. And there are just so many barriers even with food stamps. So it almost feels like you're being punished twice. And it's very depressing.”   In the 1990s, Durham wanted more investment in the downtown area. Instead of the factory jobs of the past, the downtown area shifted to offer low paying service jobs and high paying jobs in research and technology. Wealthy newcomers were called urban pioneers and trailblazers and purchase properties in historically disinvested city areas.   Low wage workers today cannot afford new housing prices in Durham, in most cases, or to pay the increasing property taxes. Many people are losing their homes through when increases, evictions and foreclosures. Gentrification has also changed which food retailers exist in the local food environment. Sometimes this creates food mirages where high quality food is priced out of reach of longtime residents.   The North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA of 1994 also changed Durham and North Carolina. Farmers from Mexico and Central America driven out of business by the trade agreement immigrated to places like North Carolina, looking for agricultural and construction jobs. Durham's Latino population grew from just over 2000 in people to 1990, to nearly 40,000 in 2014, one out of three Durham public school students was Latino in 2014. Today, 94% of migrant farm workers in North Carolina are native Spanish speakers.   In 1996, the federal government made changes to the nation's food assistance security net. It dramatically cut SNAP benefits, formerly known as food stamps and limited eligibility to receive benefits and the length of benefits. In Durham, SNAP benefit participation rate decreased by 14% between 1997 and 2001 despite a 2% increase in the poverty rate.   Durham's Latino Credit Union opened in 2000 at a time when three quarters of Latinos did not bank at all. Over the next 20 years, Latinos developed and operated restaurants, grocery stores and services across Durham. This provided the Latino population with culturally resident food, community gathering spaces and jobs.   Processed foods had become a central part of the American diet by the early two thousands. And the vast majority of food advertising promoted convenience foods, candies, and snacks, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks and desserts. In addition, companies did and still do target black and Hispanic consumers with marketing for the least nutritious products contributing to diet related health disparities, affecting communities of color.   During the great recession of 2007 to 2009, job losses, wage reductions and foreclosure crisis increased the number of people struggling to afford and access enough nutritious food. As a result, SNAP participation rose dramatically in Durham.   In 2008, the farm bill included language about food deserts for the first time. A food desert was defined as a census track with a substantial share of residents who live in low income areas and have low levels of access to a grocery store or to healthy affordable foods in a retail outlet. Today some scholars describe such places as areas of food apartheid. This recognizes the outcomes of past policy decisions that disinvested in disadvantaged populations and locations, the cumulative effects of living under food apartheid have profound impacts on the health, wellbeing, and life expectancy of people of color and the poor.   Here's an excerpt from an interview with Latonya Gilchrist, a Durham county community health worker: “I've suffered a lot in this body for a lot of people it's genetic, but I feel like, and this is my personal feeling based on what I've experienced and my whole family. It's the role of food deserts and the cost of food, not being able to have a community grocery store and what I'll say for Northeast Central Durham or the East Durham area where I grew up, we always had corner stores that sold everything we didn't need. And very little of what we did need. Back when I was a child growing up, potato chips cost 16 cents a bag, and you could get potato chips all day long and all night long, and people could get beer and wine in the neighborhood, but you couldn't find fruits and vegetables until my daddy started selling them on a truck. So diseases come about genetically, but it's increased or enhanced through living in poor poverty stricken neighborhoods.”   Durham foreclosure spiked during the great recession of 2008 and were disproportionately located in historically black neighborhoods. Owners in high poverty neighborhoods have been targeted for high cost subprime loans by lenders through a practice known as reverse redlining. As neighborhoods gentrify and longtime residents get displaced, there is an increasing spatial disconnect between services and amenities and those who utilize them and need them the most. Food, housing and retail gentrification are closely intertwined.   Here's an excerpt from an interview with Eliazar Posada, community engagement advocacy manager of El Centro in Durham: “Gentrification is affecting a lot of our community members and not just affecting the youth, but also the families, unless we can find ways to subsidize housing or find a way to make gentrification not so dramatic for some of our community members. The youth are not going to be staying in Durham if their parents can't stay.”   Durham's people of color and low income people overall have disproportionately high incidents of diabetes. In a 2016 survey in the Piedmont region, 16% of respondents with household incomes, less than $15,000 reported having diabetes compared to only 6% of residents with household incomes of more than $75,000. By 2017 black patients were 80% more likely than white patients to have diabetes in Durham.   In Durham County in 2019, the average hourly wage for food preparation and serving jobs was $10.83 cents an hour or $22,516 annually before taxes. Such wages are all been impossible to live on without government assistance. The fair market rent for a two bedroom housing unit in Durham in 2018 was $900 a month or about $10,800 a year.   Food inequality is a lack of consistent access to enough food for a healthy, active life is caused by poverty, the cost of housing and healthcare and unemployment and underemployment. It is also impacted by the interrelated forces of home and land ownership, political power, economic resources, structural racism, gender oppression, and labor rights. Durham's communities continue to build community solidarity and mutual aid as people lend money, time and other resources trying to make sure everyone can access adequate and healthy food.   In a remarkable feat of resilience the Occaneechi band of the Saponi Nation was awarded official recognition by North Carolina in 2002, following 20 years of organizing and sustained advocacy. They purchased a 250 acre plot of land just outside of Durham County and planted an orchard of fruit bearing trees for collective tribal use. This is the first land that the tribe has owned collectively in more than 250 years.   Durham's black farmer's market emerging from 2015 to 2019 is also a testament to community building through food. The market supports local black farmers and makes healthy eating attainable for individuals living in some of Durham's food apartheid areas. Market organizers are challenging social norms, classism and racism, and believe that healthy living should be possible for everyone.   So why is the food history of a community so important? And can Durham's food history be applied to other places? Who owns land, who can grow food and make a living doing so, and who has access to food, any food, least of all healthy food? The answers are deeply influenced by historical policies and practices. These in retrospect, clearly exacerbated, supported, and even created food related calamities, the dual burden communities face of both food insecurity and diet related chronic diseases, such as diabetes and obesity. Understanding these practices is important in creating change. And in understanding that conditions imposed on neighborhoods rather than personal failings of residents explain what we see today.   A few pieces of this history are specific to Durham, the role of tobacco and textiles, for instance, but most of the fundamental influences on the economic and food conditions are broad social attitudes and practices around race and poverty. And from federal, economic, agriculture and housing policies that have affected urban rural areas in every corner of the country, there is hope from local ingenuity to change food systems and from people in local, state and federal policy positions who are working to reverse inequality and to re-envision the role of food in supporting the physical and economic wellbeing of all people, learning from the past is really important in these efforts.

Soaring oil and gas prices are crippling western economies and ordinary people are suffering. But there is a way western leaders can end the energy crisis in an instant…watch video.  Check out full video - https://youtu.be/t-yniGn_SKA ECB Warns Of Housing Market Bubble The European Central Bank has warned this week that a housing market correction – caused by faltering economies, inflation and the Ukraine war – could put banks at risk of defaults and hit low-income families. Windfall tax to help people with fuel bills announced In the UK, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £5 billion package to ease the burden on soaring energy bills for millions of households. The aid will be funded by a controversial ‘windfall tax' on energy companies which have profited from record oil and gas prices. Every household will receive £400 through their energy bills and the poorest will also receive £650 to help with the rising cost of living. US Fed is planning more restrictive measures to curb inflation including higher interest rates. Letting Agents could be putting landlords at risk of prosecution Most letting and managing agents do a good job for landlords who prefer to keep their buy-to-let properties at arm's length. However, not every estate agent keeps up with the raft of changes in legislation impacting property rentals in the UK, and a few are completely unaware of the current requirements. There are currently 160 pieces of legislation directly and indirectly affecting tenants and buy-to-let landlords in the UK! The Housing Act and Landlords and Tenants Act are the two main laws governing buy-to-let renting, but they overlap with many other regulations which can easily trip up landlords who reply on their letting agent to ensure they are acting within the law.  In most cases the landlord is ultimately held responsible when things go wrong. This can lead to massive fines, penalties and even imprisonment. In my experience, I found that you should never totally depend on an estate agent to keep you legal when dealing with tenants – because they often do not know all the rules and procedures, which will put me at risk of prosecution or failure to get possession in the event of a dispute or rent arrears. For instance, failure to supply a tenant with required documents such as the How to Rent Guide and the Prescribed Information could result in a judge refusing to grant possession should the landlord need to resort to eviction.  I have been shocked to find that many established agents did not even know what the Prescribed Information was! This could be due to lack of training, but could also to down to laziness and just not bothering to carry out any CPD (Continuous Professional Development). This is particularly prevalent in one-man-band ‘mom and pop' agents where, unlike national and franchised companies, the owner operator is too busy to research all the changes or attend courses. Franchisees must undergo strict training to start trading, as well as ongoing training and CPD. They are also supervised and have access to support and systems which keep them on the right track. Estate Agents do not have a great reputation in Britain, ranking up there with politicians and lawyers! The poor service I have received over my 30 years as a property investor from estate agents has prompted me to launch my own estate agency business under the excellent Open House Estate Agents franchise banner. The training and support for my team and I has been outstanding, and I will be officially launching in June.  FREE TRAINING – PROPERTY INVESTING SECRETS This Property Investing Secrets free training webinar is designed by the industry's top investing trainers to bring you 120 minutes of valuable content; providing you with the tools to successfully invest in buy-to-let properties, raise finance and build a mighty portfolio from the ground up. Live training Wednesday 1 June 2022 at 7pm UK time. CLICK TO JOIN THE LIVE ONLINE EVENT  https://bit.ly/3DlSlCL JOIN ME FOR UK PROPERTY TALK SAT 28 MAY 2022 10AM Number of rental properties growing in the UK – click here to register New research shows the number of UK rental properties has grown by over 1.1m in the last decade, placing the UK in the top 10 globally when it comes to the balance between homeownership and renting. Register - https://contexttraining.aweb.page/p/c1e369d0-56b1-45a3-8264-0c0a7e875d23   click here to register See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Pruitt–Igoe housing complex opened in 1954 with many hoping it would be a model for urban housing projects. But, problems would start soon after it opened. By 1969 living conditions had deteriorated to such an extent that Black activists took action. Just press play to hear the whole story. ------ Click on search links to see if there are episodes with related content: Cicely Hunter, Housing, Landmark Locations, Black History, Civil Rights, Architecture, ------ Podcast Transcript: I'm Cicely Hunter, Public Historian from the Missouri Historical Society, and here's history, on eighty-eight-one, KDHX. ——— A rent strike ensued by low-income communities in St. Louis during 1969 and brought the issue of public housing home. Residents from Pruitt-Igoe and other public housing facilities grappled with its shortcomings in St. Louis and politicized its failures before the nation. ——— Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were 33 high-rise buildings that were 11 stories high, and were designed as a new cutting-edge redevelopment model of public housing by urban planners and designers. Mayor Joseph Darst believed the project would recreate new and vibrant spaces within St. Louis, which he defined as “tangible evidence of progress in the continuing war against slums and decay. St. Louisians can point to their city as a model of modern development.” With this perception of progress, Pruitt-Igoe would open its doors to residents in 1954. Not long after the doors opened, tenants would see problems arise. Residents experienced rodent infestation, broken heating units, no hot water, overflowing trash incinerators, and overall insufficient living conditions. ——— The 1969 St. Louis Rent Strike demonstrated how Black activists tackled public housing as a civil rights issue. The rent strike encouraged tenants to demand better living conditions. In this community-driven initiative, tenants withheld their rent money and insisted they only pay 25 percent of their income, increase police protection, and improve maintenance. The rent strike went on for nine months and would later inform the federal legislation Brooke Amendment to the Housing Act of 1969. Though residents of Pruitt Igoe seemed to win the battle against poor conditions during that time, it was later demolished between 1972 and 1976. Essentially, what was perceived as a successful legislation, continues to leave many low-income families in intolerable condition today. ——— Here's history is a joint production of the Missouri Historical Society and KDHX. I'm Cicely Hunter and this is eighty-eight-one, KDHX, St. Louis. ———

Dr Emma Campbell, CEO of ACTCOSS commenting on the community sectors view of the "heartless implementation by the ACT Government of its public housing renewal program". Media release: ACTCOSS refutes claims of meaningful consultation on public housing moves 4 MARCH 2022 - ACT Housing Minister Yvette Berry MLA today answered questions during Government reporting on its Growing and Renewing Public Housing program that has seen hundreds of ACT public housing tenants given notices to vacate their homes.In her evidence to the Health and Community Wellbeing Committee of the Legislative Assembly, Minister Berry claimed that community groups including the ACT Council of Social Service (ACTCOSS) had been extensively consulted, and that their advice had been followed on communication with tenants.ACTCOSS has been a member since May 2021 of a consultation group for the program with several other community groups.ACTCOSS CEO, Dr Emma Campbell said: “Our advice has consistently emphasised the need for respectful and face-to-face communication with tenants, including the direct involvement of well-resourced, independent advocacy services. Many of the tenants impacted are over the age of 70, live with severe mental health issues including dementia, or are people with disability.“Our advice may have been listened to, but it has not been heard."ACTCOSS would never endorse the type of callous, heartless and cruel communication which has taken place over the last week.“Over 300 Housing ACT tenants – including older people, people with chronic health issues and people with disability – have received letters informing them they will have to leave their homes. Many have lived in them for decades.A representative of Housing ACT was interviewed on the matter this week(link is external).Dr Campbell continued: “ACTCOSS has provided advice to the Growing and Renewing program in good faith.“Contrary to the Minister's statement today, this advice has been ignored.”ACTCOSS advocates for social justice in the ACT and represents not-for-profit community organisations. Follow us @ACTCOSS on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

In this episode, Jen provides tips for employers struggling to comply with various leave of absence laws, including the FMLA/CFRA, California's Pregnancy Disability Leave law, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and California's Fair Employment and Housing Act.

In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber employment law expert Matthew Roberts and CalChamber policy advocate Ashley Hoffman discuss four current state legislative proposals that affect the workplace: an unpaid bereavement leave mandate; “protected class” expansion in the Fair Employment and Housing Act; expansion of the number of sick days provided under the California paid sick leave law; and a new COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave law.

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This week on Behind The Headlines, the panel discusses a number of topics, including final passage of the Community Housing Act and affordable housing in general on the East End; Open Meetings Law compliance; a disease killing deer on the East End;and efforts to rescue abandoned domestic rabbits. https://www.facebook.com/shaw11946 (Joseph P. Shaw), Executive Editor, The Express News Group https://www.facebook.com/wpsutton (Bill Sutton), Managing Editor, The Express News Group https://www.facebook.com/civiletti (Denise Civiletti), Editor/Publisher,  Riverhead Local https://www.facebook.com/beth.young.777 (Beth Young), Editor/Publisher at East End Beacon https://www.facebook.com/BrendanJosephOReilly (Brendan J. O'Reilly,) Features Editor, The Express News Group

This week on Behind The Headlines, the panel discusses a number of topics, including final passage of the Community Housing Act and affordable housing in general on the East End; Open Meetings Law compliance; a disease killing deer on the East End;and efforts to rescue abandoned domestic rabbits. https://www.facebook.com/shaw11946 (Joseph P. Shaw), Executive Editor, The Express News Group https://www.facebook.com/wpsutton (Bill Sutton), Managing Editor, The Express News Group https://www.facebook.com/civiletti (Denise Civiletti), Editor/Publisher,  Riverhead Local https://www.facebook.com/beth.young.777 (Beth Young), Editor/Publisher at East End Beacon https://www.facebook.com/BrendanJosephOReilly (Brendan J. O'Reilly,) Features Editor, The Express News Group

The rental housing act was introduced to ensure that smooth relations are kept between landlords and tenants. It deals with issues of conflict resolutions, lease agreements, and other factors relating to the property. Join Zamantungwa Khumalo tonight as we take a look at the new housing act. Do you know about the new housing act? A: Yes B: No Let us know in the comments. We'll see you at 7 pm. Our guest: Megan Ladbrook, General Manager @ Only Realty Group #YSYR #PrivatePropertyPodcast #WomenInProperty

Reporter Clara Harter talks to Congressman Ted Lieu about his newly proposed Fighting Homelessness Through Services and Housing Act. Lieu, who represents California's 33rd District, explains why he believes its time the federal government breaks with tradition and provides direct support to local governments tackling homelessness. Together they discuss the merits and challenges of permanent supportive housing and how likely it is that money from this potential bill makes its way to Santa Monica.

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In 1949, the United States enacted the Housing Act to address the decline in urban housing. Fast forward to 1969 and the Florida Redevelopment Act was passed so local governments throughout the state could create community redevelopment agencies and address slum and blight. During the first episode of 2021, the Redevelopment Works podcast takes a deep dive into the past, present and future of Florida's redevelopment efforts. Join FRA's executive director, Amber Hughes and guest speaker, Ryan Matthews as they examine the history of redevelopment, how it has changed our landscape and how it shapes our future. About the Speaker: Ryan Matthews of Peebles, Smith & Matthews, has extensive experience in local, state and federal government advocacy. He previously served as the associate legislative director for the Florida League of Cities and focuses his practice on general utilities (electric/water/wastewater), environmental, transportation, telecommunications, growth management and local government representation.

In a recent op-ed for The New York Times, journalist and novelist Ross Barkan wrote about public housing and the housing crisis. An eviction crisis is looming, Barkan wrote, staved off only by an eviction moratorium. But that moratorium will eventually expire. “When it does, a crushing housing emergency could descend on America—as many as 40 million Americans will be in danger of eviction.” Barkan goes on to say the federal government must play an important role in addressing the short-term crisis as well the underlying problems in the housing market. One “major step,” according to Barkan, would be to repeal "an obscure 22-year-old addition to the Housing Act of 1937, the Faircloth Amendment. Passed in an era when the reputation of housing projects was at a low, the amendment prohibits any net increase in public-housing units.” The repeal of Faircloth is a regular feature in progressive proposals, including the Green New Deal and other efforts by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In this week’s episode of Upzoned, host Abby Kinney, an urban planner in Kansas City, is joined by regular co-host Chuck Marohn, the founder and president of Strong Towns, as well as by Strong Towns senior editor Daniel Herriges. The three of them discuss the Faircloth Amendment and the role of the federal government in addressing the housing crisis. They talk about where a federal response could align with a Strong Towns response, the problems with supersized solutions, and to what extent repealing Faircloth will address the underlying dysfunctions in the housing market. Then in the Downzone, Daniel says he’s finally reading E.F. Schumacher, Chuck talks about a course he’s starting on the plague, and Abby discusses a show she’s been binge-watching, a terrifying psychological thriller. Additional Shownotes: “It’s Time for America to Reinvest in Public Housing,” by Ross Barkan Online Course: “Creating Housing Opportunities in a Strong Town” Abby Kinney (Twitter) Daniel Herriges (Twitter) Charles Marohn (Twitter) Gould Evans Studio for City Design Theme Music by Kemet the Phantom (Soundcloud) Recent Strong Towns content related to this podcast“What's Missing From the Green New Deal, by Daniel Herriges “Form Without Function in Public Housing,” by Johnny Sanphillippo “What Happens When a Third of U.S. Tenants Don’t Pay Rent” (Podcast) “Can We Afford to Care About Design in a Housing Crisis?” by Daniel Herriges “The Connectedness of Our Housing Ecosystem,” by Daniel Herriges

Quizmasters Lee and Marc meet to ask, suss and answer a general knowledge quiz with topics including Commercial Jingles, Birds, Casting Fails, Words, Non-Fiction Books, TV Shows, U.S. Presidents, French Language, Greek Mythology, Film Remakes, Federal Law, Geography, Famous Athletes, Academy Award Records, Fruits and more! Round One COMMERCIAL JINGLES - "Love that Chicken" is a commercial jingle written and performed by R&B and funk legend Dr. John for what fast food chain? BIRDS - What wading bird, the only bird in the order Phonecoptiforus, has only six species, four throughout the Americas and the Caribbean, and two species that are native to Africa, Asia and Europe? CASTING FAILS - What comedian was considered for the role of Jack in The Shining, but was rejected by director Stanley Kubrick for seeming “too psychotic”? WORDS - What does "con" stand for in "con man"? NON-FICTION - What book by Oliver Sacks recounted the life history of the victims of the encephalitis lethargica epidemic in 1973? TV SHOWS - The TV series Soap spawned what spinoff TV show from 1979-1986 focussing on the butler from that series? Missed Corrections Feedback about Lee’s Grammy Question. Extra info about the burning monk image courtesy of Ian. Elyse clarifies Apples and Pineapples are not citrus fruit. Round Two U.S. PRESIDENTS - What president is believed to be the first American to earn a brown belt in Judo? FRENCH LANGUAGE - In French, the phrase "Dodo" is baby talk for what activity? GREEK MYTHOLOGY - According to Greek Mythology, what goddess gifted Olives to the Greeks? FILM REMAKES - Of Christopher Nolan’s films, which was released in 2003 and is the only of his eleven films released to date that is a remake? TV SHOWS - What were the first names of the Dukes of Hazzard cousins? FEDERAL LAW - What part of the Housing Act of 1937 authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private landlords on behalf of low-income households in the United States? Rate My Question WORLD GEOGRAPHY - Hundreds of naturally mummified bodies are scattered throughout an open area known as "Rainbow Valley," which is located where? - submitted by Kyle U.S. GEOGRAPHY - Formerly known as Longacre square, this location was renamed in 1904 after a local newspaper. - submitted by Myles FAMOUS ATHLETES - Shane Stant was charged with the assault of this athlete in 1994, The Story of which was made into an Academy Award winning movie in 2017. - submitted by Myles Final Questions ACADEMY AWARD RECORDS - Alfonso Cuaron shares a record for individuals to be nominated for six distinct Academy Award categories with what other individual, who was been nominated for Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture between 2006 and 2013? FRUITS - Occasionally called "Shaddock" and native to Southeast Asia, what fruit's scientific name is citrus grandis or citra maxima? Upcoming LIVE Know Nonsense Trivia Challenges December 14th, 2020 - Know Nonsense Trivia Challenge - Palace Pub & Wine Bar - 7:30 pm EDT December 16th, 2020 - Know Nonsense Trivia Challenge - Point Ybel Brewing Co. - 7:30 pm EDT December 17th, 2020 - Know Nonsense Trivia Challenge - Twitch - 8:00 pm EDT You can find out more information about that and all of our live events online at KnowNonsenseTrivia.com All of the Know Nonsense events are free to play and you can win prizes after every round. Thank you Thanks to our supporters on Patreon. Thank you, Quizdaddies – Dylan, Tommy (The Electric Mud) and Tim (Pat's Garden Service) Thank you, Team Captains – Shaun, Lydia, Gil, David, Rachael, Aaron, Kristen & Fletcher Thank you, Proverbial Lightkeepers – Ryan, Mollie, Lisa, Alex, Jenny, Spencer, Kaitlynn, Manu, Mo, Matthew, Luc, Hank, Justin, Cooper, Elyse, Sarah, Karly, Kristopher, Josh, Lucas and Max Thank you, Rumplesnailtskins – Doug, Kevin and Sara, Tiffany, Allison, Paige, We Do Stuff, Mike S. ,Kenya, Jeff, Eric, Steven, Efren, Mike J., Mike C. If you'd like to support the podcast and gain access to bonus content, please visit http://theknowno.com and click "Support."

Carroll Fife is running for Oakland City Council in District 3. She supports the Moms for Housing Act, the Black New Deal, and investing in alternatives to policing. I support her wholeheartedly.

Topics - There has been roughly a doubling of people returning to the country last month, and modelling suggested there could be a 4 percent growth per fortnight on that. We speak to Associate Professor Lynn McBain about how to protect New Zealand as global infection rates soar. There could be a decision as early as next week about the future of disputed land at Ihumatao. RNZ understands a deal is close, with the land to be acquired under the Housing Act. Panellists Alexia Russell and Mike Smith discuss the story. Almost a year on from the introduction of the plastic bag ban, 400 breaches have been reported but no penalties or warnings have been issued, and much of our plastic waste is still shipped off overseas. We speak to plastics campaigner and environmental anthropologist Dr Trisia Farrelly.

RNZ understands a deal is close, with the land to be acquired under the Housing Act. 

Matthew Moody has been in the property and business space since 1995 and runs ‘League of Extraordinary Investors' where he helps busy entrepreneurs invest in high-yielding properties in their spare time through his global professional investment community and mastermind. A few interesting facts about Matthew: o Property investment career 17 years January 2020 o £3.5 million portfolio generating over £100k annually o Business career 25 years with two six figure sales o Sourced, acquired and controlled £16.5 million pounds worth of property between 2010-2011 o Built a 5 office 9 county national network of HMO letting agents managing nearly 1,000 units of inventory o Won ‘Lettings Agent of the Year' in first year of business o Sold Lease Option portfolio for six figures o Sourced £25 million pounds worth of discounted stock (average 18%) in UK, Europe and USA o Genuinely shared and spoken on stage with Robert Allen, Jack Canfield and Joseph McClendon III (Tony Robbins chief trainer) o Trained thousands of investors in building a HMO & R2R property empire o Ran biggest HMO & R2R training events in UK (verified 421 participants) o Consulted with numerous high profile property experts and training companies to numerous to mention o Has been identified as ‘brain of britain' when it comes to uncovering hidden income opportunities within portfolios o Largest annual saving discovered in one hour £44,000 and largest annual income uplift of £105,000 in 15 minutes o Received 5/5 for content and 5/5 for value with 4/5 clients stating that their knowledge, confidence and understanding of their property business increased after my trainings o 76% success rate with high end mentoring clients achieving their goals at end of programme Press Information Matthew has been on numerous TV and Radio shows as well as magazines, online and offline. He's been featured on Working Lunch on BBC2 as a landlord talking about HMO's and the HMO regulations that were introduced following the new Housing Act:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/working_lunch/6062052.stm He's acted as an Advisor to Radio 4 for many years with general queries or sound bites on issues related to property and have been featured several times live on the air. He regularly talks on radio around the country and have been featured as a guest on Asian Star Radio, Elastic FM and more. Biography Matthew Moody, Grand Master, League of Extraordinary Investors. He has also had the good fortune to be asked to contribute articles to various media publications including LandlordZone, Property Investor News and was a mentor and regular contributor to Your Property Network magazine for over three years. Matthew has had the pleasure of speaking around the world and sharing the stage with Jack Canfield, Robert Allen, Joseph Mcclendon III, Vincent Wong, John Lee, Simon Zutshi, Simon Coulson, Parmdeep Vadesha, Vanish Patel, Jim Halliburton, Juswant Rai, Anthony Lyons to name a few. Matthew is available for interviews both live or pre-recorded on TV or radio and would be happy to discuss contributing articles to your publication. For more information, please send an email in the first instance to hello@leagueofextraordinaryinvestors.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-10kmonth-podcast/message

Today's Hot Topic focuses on some of the new legislative changes set to take effect in California on January 1, 2020.  SAFFIRE LEGAL PC’s founder and principal attorney Teresa McQueen talks about the new laws impacting mandatory arbitration agreements, the codification of the Dynamex ABC test, and what policies you’ll need to have in your organization's employee handbook as of January 1st.       Workplace Perspective is a regular podcast series for employers and employees focusing on education, training, and the law to help organizations of all sizes develop and maintain successful employer / employee relationships.     "Enacted to quote, “codify the decision in the Dynamex case and clarify its application,” AB 5  does nothing more than muddy the waters and once again add confusion to what was - for the better part of a year - a very straightforward analysis." - Teresa McQueen   Highlights From This Week's Workplace Perspective: ABC test remains in effect, but if a court rules that the 3-part ABC test cannot be applied, then the issue of whether individual is an employee or independent contractor is to be determined by applying the Borello factors   Keep in mind that the ABC test is an ‘all or nothing’ test – all 3 factors must be met for the individual to be classified as an IC – while Borello requires a weighing of the facts against many various factors   The existing Department of Fair Employment & Housing deadline for filing claims of harassment, discrimination or retaliation is extended from 1 year to 3 years (from date of last act of harassment, discrimination or retaliation – unless an exception applies)   AB 51 prohibits employers – not subject to Federal Arbitration Act – from requiring applicants/employees to agree, as a condition of employment, to mandatory arbitration of employment related claims (under the CA Labor Code or the Fair Employment & Housing Act)   Deadline for complying with SB 1343 is extended by SB 788 to January 1, 2021 (with some exceptions)   Special Thanks To... Paul Roberts (Engineer/Associate Producer Extraordinaire!)   Michele Hardy de Boisblanc (Associate Producer Extraordinaire!)   Stephen Vercelloni (Composer Extraordinaire! Today’s episode features the song Grifter)   James Bohannan & The Knave At Knight (DJs & “Radio Angels” Extraordinaire!) Thank you for listening! Don’t forget to SUBSCRIBE to the show (using the links above or below) to receive new episodes on your podcast player the second and fourth Wednesday of every month. Raise The Bar At Workplaces Everywhere! by getting the word out about this podcast. Rate and review this show at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, Google Play, Blubrry and Tunein and be sure to share this podcast with a friend. Connect with us and reach out with any questions/concerns: Facebook LinkedIn Website Email This podcast is for informational, educational, and entertainment purposes only. It is not to be construed as legal advice specific to your circumstances. If you need help with any legal matters, be sure to consult with an attorney regarding your specific needs. © 2020 SAFFIRE LEGAL, PC. Workplace Perspective Raising the Bar at Workplaces Everywhere!® and copyrights are proprietary. All Rights Reserved.

This week's podcast is all about the Good, Bad and the Ugly of Section 8. Your host, Jim Ingersoll, covers all the bases to help you, the Landlord, see the entire picture and help you determine whether you want to rent to Section 8 tenants. 1. What is Section 8?: Section 8 is a government program that dates back to the Housing Act of 1937. Section 8 pays rent for over 3 to 4 million low-income households. A variety of Section 8 programs are available to low-income tenants, but the most popular is the voucher choice program. This program will pay either a portion of the tenant’s rent or all of the tenant’s rent depending on the individual tenant’s financial situation. 2. The Good: Most Landlords either love or hate the Section 8 program. They love it because they don’t have to worry about receiving full payment of their rent on-time, every single month. They don’t need to worry about checks being “lost in the mail” and a million other excuses tenants use to not pay their rent on time every month. And they love it because they can charge a lot for their rent. 3. The Bad: One of the reasons that some landlords don’t like Section 8 is the government regulation involved. They don’t want the government involved with their rental properties. The government puts regulation on all Section 8 properties. The regulation includes a safety inspection when the tenant moves in and ongoing inspections at least annually. After the inspection process, you’ll need to fix every item on their list before the tenant is approved for move-in. The inspection criteria is more stringent than most landlords expect, so the expense can be costly. Section 8 agencies are typically under-staffed and over-worked. This can result in a slow process of getting through the inspections, the contracts, tenants moving in, and waiting for your first check to arrive. 4. The Ugly: Another primary concern is the quality of the tenant. Landlords fear that Section 8 tenants may be rough on their property, and not properly maintain the house or call when there are issues like leaking water. Sometimes the tenants have large families or invite others to move in with them to share remaining expenses or even sublet out the couch. Extra people can lead to heavy wear and tear on the property. The way to minimize this is to fully screen Section 8 prospects just as you would non-Section 8 tenants. Landlords need to pull criminal background checks, call previous landlords, and check everything regardless if the tenant is in the Section 8 program or not. 5. Bottom Line: Some landlords love the Section 8 program. There are real estate investors who have 100% of their rentals filled with Section 8 tenants. Others hate Section 8 because of the challenges managing the whole process. How about you? What are your Section 8 experiences? Did you try it out, stay with it, or drop it as fast as you could? Share your Section 8 stories with us right here in the comments section. Follow on Jim on: Instagram     Facebook    Twitter  Join Jim at Deal Maker 2020 Live February 6 - 8, 2020 in Richmond, VA    

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  The Common Law History of Section 230 with Brent Skorup (Ep. 208)   Bio Brent Skorup (@bskorup) is a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research areas include transportation technology, telecommunications, aviation, and wireless policy. He serves on the FCC’s Broadband Deployment Advisory Committee and on the Texas DOT’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Task Force. He is also a member of the Federalist Society’s Regulatory Transparency Project. The White House, the FCC, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and a dissenting opinion at the Illinois Supreme Court have cited his research. In addition to economics and law journal publication, he has authored pieces for National Affairs, Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Wired, Air Traffic Management magazine, Regulation magazine, and elsewhere. He’s appeared as a TV and radio interview guest for news outlets like C-SPAN, NPR, CBS News, ABC News, and CNBC Asia. Brent has a BA in economics from Wheaton College and a law degree from the George Mason University School of Law, where he was articles editor for the Civil Rights Law Journal. He was a legal clerk at the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau and at the Energy and Commerce Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives. Before joining Mercatus, he was the Director of Research at the Information Economy Project, a law and economics university research center. Resources   Mercatus Center   The Erosion of Publisher Liability in American Law by Brent Skorup and Jennifer Huddleston (Mercatus Center, 2019)   News Roundup   Zuckerberg, Facebook under mounting pressure over political ads   Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to meet with civil rights leaders this week after his company has maintained its policy to leave up political ads containing false statements by politicians. The company has applied the policy unevenly, first allowing Donald Trump to maliciously post an ad with false information about Joe Biden; then leaving up an Elizabeth Warren ad containing false information designed to illustrate the absurdity of Facebook’s ad policy.  During a hearing, Zuckerberg also admitted to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that if she were to place a false political ad, that the company would probably leave it up.    But Facebook is inexplicably removing false ads placed by Political  Action Committees. One notable example is an ad placed the Really Online Lefty League – ROLL – a Political Action Committee co-founded by Adriel Hampton – which falsely claimed that Lindsey Graham supports the New Green Deal. Hampton, an experienced marketing and political strategist, responded by filing to run for governor of California. Then gubernatorial candidate Hampton posted a false political ad and Facebook took it down, saying his campaign wasn’t legit—that it was just a ploy to place a false ad to see what Facebook would do. Even though Hampton says he fully expects to win the governorship, Facebook hasn’t reinstated the ad.   It’s a mess.   Top officials from the NAACP, National Urban League, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights are scheduled to meet with Zuckerberg this week to express their concerns with Facebook’s political ad policy, which the company now says has been extended to the UK.   Facebook sued for age, gender bias in financial services ads   A plaintiff in San Francisco filed a potential class action federal lawsuit last week claiming that Facebook discriminates against users based on age and gender in determining who can see financial services ads.  The lawsuit comes 7-months after Facebook agreed to tailor its platform to avoid discrimination on the basis of age, gender and zip code for job, credit, and housing ads.   US launches Tik Tok investigation   The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has launched a national security investigation into Tik Tok, which is owned by the Chinese firm Bytedance. A bipartisan cohort of lawmakers including Democrat Chuck Schumer, Republican Marco Rubio, and Tennessee Democratic Congressman Bart Gordon have all expressed concern about how the Chinese government uses TikTok’s data. TikTok’s growth has been outpacing the growth of incumbent social media companies in the U.S.     Snowden: Facebook as untrustworthy as the NSA   Whistleblower Edward Snowden, who is exiled in Russia for blowing the lid off the National Security Agency’s mass data collection practices six years ago, told ReCode’s Kara Swisher last week that Facebook is as untrustworthy as the NSA when it comes to privacy. But he didn’t limit his remarks to Facebook. He said that all tech companies are looking to exploit our personal data no matter the consequences. He also said that, on the surface, users may appear not to be concerned about how big tech companies handle their data but that, in reality, users are very concerned but feel powerless.   Five people shot and killed at Airbnb rental   Five people were shot and killed at an Airbnb rental Northern California during a Halloween party on Thursday. The rental listing on Airbnb prohibited parties and the renter claimed it was renting the space for family members who were suffering from smoke inhalation from the fires in the Los Angeles area. A witness reported to Buzzfeed that the shooting occurred with apparently no provocation. Airbnb has banned the renter from the platform.   China launches 5G network   Chinese officials announced last week that it would roll out 5G to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Hangzhou 2 months ahead of schedule. The country also announced plans to roll out 5G to over 50 cities by the end of this year. While U.S. telecom companies have begun their 5G roll-out, it’s largely been rolled out on higher frequency bands than the 5G service that’s being rolled out in China. The lower frequency bands that China’s using cover a larger surface area, while the higher frequency bands U.S. companies are using are more powerful but cover less ground.   Corey Booker introduces bill to ban facial recognition in public housing   Senator Corey Booker has introduced a bill to ban facial recognition in public housing. The Senator cites the disproportionate impact that facial recognition technology threatens to have on the nation’s most vulnerable communities. The No Biometric Barriers to Housing Act targets public housing that receives funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development.   Apple pledges $2.5 billion for California affordable housing   Apple announced that it will invest $2.5 billion to address California’s affordable housing shortage. Some of those funds will be applied statewide. Others will be allocated for projects in the Bay Area. Three hundred million dollars will go towards affordable housing on Apple-owned property.   Following Katie Hill’s resignation, Democrats push for revenge porn law   Thirty-five democrats in Congress sent a letter to the House Judiciary Committee to pass a federal revenge porn law that would criminalize the nonconsensual posting of sexually explicit images online. The letter followed Congresswoman Katie Hill’s resignation from Congress after someone posted nude images depicting her and others as well as accusations that she was having inappropriate relations with campaign and congressional staffers. Hill blames her husband, whom she is in the process of divorcing, for posting the photos.     MIT president acknowledges discrimination against minorities and women on campus   Finally, Massachusetts Institute of Technology president Rafael Reif acknowledged last week that women and people of color often face exclusion and belittlement on campus and that it’s something the university is trying to improve. The development follows revelations of Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to the university.

In this month’s podcast Eddie and Paul are joined by Head of Redress at the Property Redress Scheme, Sean Hooker, who discusses his recent blog ‘Chaos Theory! Changes, changes, what’s next for the property world?’ With the political environment in a state of flux, Eddie, Paul and Sean attempt to decode the confusion surrounding legislation in the private rented sector (PRS), including delving into upcoming consultations that could impact landlords. Eddie, Paul and Sean discuss the ‘tenant fee ban’, ‘Section 21’ updates, and Sean gives his opinion on housing courts. With political changes emerging from Westminster featuring heavily in this episode they also consider what ‘right to buy’ would mean for the PRS, ideas surrounding rent controls and whether there could be a ‘Housing Act overhaul’ on the horizon. The key take home message … make sure you are prepared for upcoming regulation and legislative changes, whatever they may be! As always, Eddie and Paul round up the podcast by asking Sean … ‘If you could make one new property law, what would it be?’

Describing the Housing Act of 2019 as a big mistake for NY owners, renters and the city, panelists believe that the law creates uncertainty and is retroactive as much as 23 years; predicting fewer property improvements and fewer jobs as owners, builders and bankers continue to discuss this legislation.

The leasehold reform agenda gained further momentum last week, with the publication of a new consultation seeking views on how best to implement the proposals announced in April to abolish section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 and replace it with a strengthened section 8 process – including the removal of assured shorthold tenancies or ASTs. The consultation is open for 12 weeks, with responses due on or before 12 October. To explain the detail of the consultation paper, EG’s Professional & Legal Editor Sarah Jackman is joined in the studio by residential property litigation partner Eleanor Murray of law firm CMS. She delves into the detail of the proposals - including the potential replacements for the AST and how they might operate - looks at the government’s position on rent controls and comments on whether the proposals achieve a fair balance between the landlord and the tenant.

Listen to what the current PM has to say about landlords and letting agents. Respond to the consultation and lobby your MP if you feel the removal of section 21 would be a mistake. You’ve heard a lot of negative news, so is this the end of the property as we know it? NO! Of course not. Firstly, entrepreneurs are adaptable and it’s in their DNA to find solutions to problems. Secondly, property investment is not just about buy-to-let and becoming a landlord. There are dozens of strategies from development and conversions to rent to rent and lease purchase options which require little or no deposit and no mortgages. You can learn these strategies and more by attending short courses where you get to meet expert trainers and investors, as well as network with likeminded people. Who knows, you could meet your future business or JV partner at an event? If you would like further details on property courses, such as a one-day introduction to property investing, drop me a line to charles@charleskelly.net I have a limited number of complimentary tickets to attend an excellent course run by experts, which will give you a clear overview of the market. Here are some of the courses coming up in the next few months: Multiple Streams ff Property Income (Three days of world-class training) Beginner Property Secrets (Full days training) Deal Packaging Discovery Day Serviced Accommodation Discovery No Money Down Discovery For full details and a list of further courses click here to learn how to become a UK property investor or go to http://bit.ly/2ZVAVtvcourses.     See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Guests discuss the 2019 package of rent regulations and tenant protections predicting dire consequences to New York City owners, tenants and their community: investment and sales will come to a standstill, renovation caps will affect maintenance and jobs and more.

Important news for landlords which could prevent you from gaining possession of your property under Section 21 I recently attended a landlord’s meeting and was shocked at the lack of knowledge in the room, especially regarding important changes which came into effect this month.   Firstly, new legislation came into effect from the 1st of June under the Tenants Fees Act 2019 regarding charging tenants – what you can and cannot charge tenants. If you are a landlord and you ignore new letting rules, you could face fines of up to £30,000 and a criminal charge, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA).   Secondly, many of the landlords were unaware of Section 24 removing mortgage interest tax relief on their buy-to-let mortgage.   Finally, landlords had no idea that following a court ruling (Caridon Property Ltd v Monty Shooltz) Section 21 notices are invalid unless the gas safety certificate has been given to the tenant before the tenancy agreement has been signed.   Landlordsadvice.co.uk reports that Section 21A of the Housing Act 1988 (as amended by the Deregulation Act 2015) provides that for tenancies granted after 01 October 2015, a Section 21 Notice cannot be validly served on the tenant if the landlord is in breach of a “prescribed requirement”.   Remember that the landlord is ultimately responsible, even if your letting agent screws up. Several agents in my area had never heard of prescribed information when I quizzed them.   The prescribed requirements are set out in The Assured Shorthold Tenancy Notices and Prescribed Requirements (England) Regulations 2015 (the “AST Regulations”).  Regulations list the requirement for a landlord to provide a tenant with a gas safety certificate in compliance with the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 (the “Gas Safety Regulations”). Regulation 36(5) of the Gas Safety Regulations states that it is a statutory requirement for every landlord to ensure that:   (a) a copy of the record made pursuant to the requirements of paragraph (3)(c) above is given to each existing tenant of premises to which the record relates within 28 days of the date of the check; and (b)  a copy of the last record made in respect of each appliance or flue is given to any new tenant of premises to which the record relates before that tenant occupies those premises save that, in respect of a tenant whose right to occupy those premises is for a period not exceeding 28 days, a copy of the record may instead be prominently displayed within those premises. However, Regulation 2(2) of the AST Regulations states that the time limit for compliance with Regulation 36(5) of the Gas Safety Regulations does not apply.   In this case, the court had to decide whether a landlord could validly serve a Section 21 notice if Gas Safety Regulation 36(5)(b) hadn’t been complied with at the start of the tenancy. The judge came to this conclusion on the basis that a gas safety certificate had not been provided to the tenant at the start of the tenancy, before the tenant took up occupation although one was served shortly before the service of the s.21 notice. Caridon Property Ltd. The ruling has been appealed.   The judgement is a county court appeal and therefore not binding on the county courts. However, the judgment is a decision of one of the country’s leading housing lawyers and therefore County Courts may be persuaded by this ruling when dealing with your claim for possession. Interestingly, HHJ Luba is also one of the authors of “Defending Possession Proceedings”, which is the textbook that most District Judges have on their benches to consult when deciding housing cases.   AST regulations could be amended following this judgement or the ruling heard by a Court of Appeal. In the meantime, any landlord who failed to provide a gas safety certificate at the start of the tenancy, in other words before the tenant moved in, is likely to find that they cannot serve a section 21 notice during the period of that tenancy.   The government recently announced proposals to abolish “no fault evictions” under Section 21 notices.   On 26 June 2019, Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed the government’s intentions during a frank speech at the Housing 2019 conference.   The Prime Minister said:   “…We are re-balancing the relationship between tenant and landlord, making major changes that will make an immediate and lasting impact on the lives of millions of families.   In the private sector we’ve already capped the size of rent deposits and abolished letting fees, cutting the amount tenants have to find upfront and making it harder for landlords and agents to take advantage of desperate house hunters.   Now we’re going further…because if you rent a property it will not be your house, but it is still your home.    And to me that means that if you pay your rent, play by the by the rules and keep the house in good order your landlord should not be allowed to throw you out on a whim. It is simply not fair.    So we’re bringing to an end the practice of the so called no-fault evictions. Repealing the section 21 of the 1988 Housing Act.   A consultation on the changes will be published shortly, with a view to introducing legislation later this year.”   The Government will shortly launch a consultation as to the proposed repeal of section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 in which landlords will have the opportunity to give their views to the government on this major proposed change.      It is well worth becoming a member of the NLA, or similar organisation, which represents the interests of landlords, lobbies the government, runs a helpline and holds meetings all over the country.   The important thing is to learn your trade do your CPD by keeping up with changes to legislation. Property still a good investment because you can use leverage or bank and other people’s money to acquire properties.   If you currently own property, I would not panic about new rules or jump ship as they tend to drive out the cowboys or reluctant landlords. If you are planning to invest, always educate yourself before dipping your toe in the market.   If you like further details a property courses, such as a one-day introduction to property investing, drop me a line to charles@charleskelly.net   I have a limited number of complimentary tickets to attend an excellent course run by experts, which will give you a clear overview into the market.   Here are some of the courses coming up in the next few months:   Multiple Streams Of Property Income (Three days of world-class training)   Beginner Property Secrets (Full days training)   Deal Packaging Discovery Day   Serviced Accommodation Discovery   No Money Down Discovery   For full details and a list of further courses click here to learn how to become a UK property investor or go to http://bit.ly/2ZVAVtvcourses.       See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Listen to what the current PM has to say about landlords and letting agents. Respond to the consultation and lobby your MP if you feel the removal of section 21 would be a mistake. You’ve heard a lot of negative news, so is this the end of property as we know it? NO! Of course not. Firstly, entrepreneurs are adaptable and it’s in their DNA to find solutions to problems. Secondly, property investment is not just about buy-to-let and becoming a landlord. There are dozens of strategies from development and conversions to rent to rent and lease purchase options which require little or no deposit and no mortgages. You can learn these strategies and more by attending short courses where you get to meet expert trainers and investors, as well as network with likeminded people. Who knows, you could meet your future business or JV partner at an event? If you like further details a property courses, such as a one-day introduction to property investing, drop me a line to charles@charleskelly.net I have a limited number of complimentary tickets to attend an excellent course run by experts, which will give you a clear overview into the market. Here are some of the courses coming up in the next few months: Multiple Streams ff Property Income (Three days of world-class training) Beginner Property Secrets (Full days training) Deal Packaging Discovery Day Serviced Accommodation Discovery No Money Down Discovery For full details and a list of further courses click here to learn how to become a UK property investor or go to http://bit.ly/2ZVAVtvcourses.

I recently attended a landlord’s meeting and was shocked at the lack of knowledge in the room, especially regarding important changes which came into effect this month. Firstly, new legislation came into effect from the 1st of June under the Tenants Fees Act 2019 regarding charging tenants – what you can and cannot charge tenants. If you are a landlord and you ignore new letting rules, you could face fines of up to £30,000 and a criminal charge, according to the National Landlords Association (NLA). Secondly, many of the landlords were unaware of Section 24 removing mortgage interest tax relief on their buy-to-let mortgage. Finally, landlords had no idea that following a court ruling (Caridon Property Ltd v Monty Shooltz) Section 21 notices are invalid unless the gas safety certificate has been given to the tenant before the tenancy agreement has been signed. Listen for more details and PM Theresa May's speech this week on abolishing "no fault evictions", confirming the government's intention to repeal Section 21 of the 1988 Housing Act. The Government will shortly launch a consultation as to the proposed repeal of section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 in which landlords will have the opportunity to give their views to the government on this major proposed change. If you like further details a property courses, such as a one-day introduction to property investing, see learn how to build a property portfolio or drop me a line to charles@charleskelly.net I have a limited number of complimentary tickets to attend an excellent course run by experts, which will give you a clear overview into the market. Here are some of the courses coming up in the next few months: Multiple Streams Of Property Income (Three days of world-class training) Beginner Property Secrets (Full days training) Deal Packaging Discovery Day Serviced Accommodation Discovery No Money Down Discovery For full details and a list of further courses click here to learn how to become a UK property investor.

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How is the increasing size of the private rented sector affecting UK Government policy? How are private landlords and letting agents regulated? How secure are private tenants in their housing? What are the main aspects of the debate around affordability and rent control? And how are private rented sector policies affecting Government housing policies more broadly? Talking us through these issues is Wendy Wilson, the housing policy specialist in the House of Commons Library. She spoke to us on 15 April 2019, the same day the Government announced that it would consult on abolishing Section 21 of the Housing Act 1988 which provides for 'no fault' evictions in assured shorthold tenancies in England. You can find all our podcast episodes, full show notes and transcripts at commonslibrary.parliament.uk/podcast

The government has announced plans to end "no fault evictions" under section 21 of the Housing Act 1988.  EG's deputy legal editor, Jess Harrold, joins Jeremy Stephen, associate director at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP, to discuss the controversial proposals set to go under consultation. Stephen considers the issues raised for tenants and landlords, the need for a clear vision on leasehold reform and the likely impact on the market  - including the potential opportunities the move might offer for build to rent.  

Register your interest in Serviced Accommodation Discovery Day here, and a member of our team will get back to you to confirm your place at your preferred date.     In this episode we have an amazing opportunity to gain an insight of the mentoring process in action. Kevin takes us through a mentoring session addressing how to start in SA as someone completely new. He uses his own knowledge and experience to provide a clear pathway into SA when renting from letting agents. An unmissable episode which demonstrates clearly the value of a skilled mentor. KEY TAKEAWAYS Renting from letting agents              Acquiring properties from letting agents is about properties that are good to go,               you can be in a position to move clients in very quickly. Traditional investment model Buy a property involving deposit conveyancing, completing the refurbishment process then re financing to buy to let or an HMO. Lots of time and money involved in the traditional model. Renting from a letting agent bypasses all that so you could be showing in new guests the same day you get the keys. New to SA? As someone new to SA it's important to undertake steps to establish credibility and social proof. Research – talk to hospitals, universities large companies in your area, speak to the person who deals with booking accommodation for visiting guests, employees, clients. If you can get someone definitely interested you've got social proof that there is demand. Make a website in advance of getting first units showing the type of rooms you are providing. Try to hook up with other SA providers in the area Air bnb easiest way to connect – if you've got client interest, they could take business until you have units. How to open the door with letting agents? Will the landlord do a company let? Initial question should always be will the landlord do a company let? – the letting agent will understand this and ask what are you going to use the property for. Use your social proof when talking to the letting agent to help establish credibility and local knowledge Who will be at the property? Letting agents will often think that they need this information as part of the right to rent checks. SA sits outside of the Housing Act and is a company let so there is no requirement a short-term tenancy agreement (which is for a minimum of 6 months) The company let agreement? It is best to use the letting agents, company let agreement, but it will require some amendments, the most common being it's not for your employees but your clients. Sourcing clients? Always be honest about sourcing corporate clients through booking.com and Airbnb name drop clients who have already used these sites – its social proof most companies are interested in cutting costs through the use of SA and use booking.com and Air bnb to facilitate this.  VALUABLE RESOURCES  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-serviced-accommodation-property-podcast/id1436005279?mt=2 BEST MOMENTS ‘Get trained in SA and then you've got knowledge to use advice effectively' ‘Discovery days could be free – message Kevin' ‘Say to them before they raise it with you' ‘When speaking to letting agents name drop companies who you've spoken to' ‘If it was that easy everyone would be doing it' ‘Use your instinct depending on who you are speaking to' ABOUT THE HOST Your host Kevin Poneskis enjoys public speaking, travelling, exercising and keeping fit. He also enjoys working with a charity called STOLL which provides accommodation and training for homeless veterans. Kevin was in the British Army serving 24 years, mostly in a Commando unit and retired at the rank of Regimental Sergeant Major. He left the Army in 2011 and became a full-time property investor. During most of his Army career, Kevin was investing in property and has been a property investor now for over 27 years. CONTACT METHOD Facebook – Property soldier Email – kevin@propertysoldier.co.uk See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Quote: “When I die, I’m dead.” —Eloise Westbrook About: Three horizontal stripes, red, black and green, add color to the streetlights and poles in and around the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco. These Pan-African flags are a relatively new addition to the area. They were painted just about a year ago thanks to an initiative spearheaded by the neighborhood's local city supervisor, Malia Cohen. “This is about branding the Bayview neighborhood to honor and pay respect to the decades of contributions that African-Americans have made to the southeast neighborhood and to the city,” she said in a statement. But when compared to what’s going on in the neighborhood, these painted flags inadvertently serve as reminders of what this neighborhood once was and what it now isn’t. This used to be a place where you could be Black and thrive. You could find work and own a home. Now, not so much. In Part II of this story about the term Frisco, we try and find out what happened. Show Notes: [00:35] More on “Wild Wes” and Wild SF Tours [03:30] “Kid Kodi” by Blue Dot Sessions [06:10] For reference: Map of San Francisco and its neighborhoods (San Francisco Association of Realtors) [06:40] More on Dr. Raymond Tompkins (San Francisco Bay View Newspaper) [07:40] “Allston Night Owl” by Blue Dot Sessions [09:30] “Roundpine” by Blue Dot Sessions [12:00] Light reading on environmental conditions of Bayview-Hunters Point: Health Inequities in the Bay Area San Francisco Community Health Needs Assessment 2016 On the 14 year life expectancy gap (San Francisco Chronicle) Pollution Problems in Bayview-Hunters Point (Greenaction) [12:30] “The Yards” by Blue Dot Sessions [13:00] “Why I Love Living in Russian Hill” (The Bold Italic) [13:20] On the naming of Russian Hill (FoundSF) Related: the naming of other San Francisco neighborhoods (Mental Floss) [13:50] Light reading on old history of Bayview-Hunters Point Additional reading on the sale (Bernal History Project) [14:30] On the formation of Butchertown (FoundSF) [15:15] Further reading on history of Hunters Point Shipyard development and community (City of San Francisco) [15:30] Light reading on history of Chinese shrimping industry in San Francisco (FoundSF) [15:55] Light reading on Oscar James (Museum of African Diaspora) [16:40] “D-Day” by Nat King Cole [17:00] Light reading on San Francisco’s shipbuilding and war time history World War II Shipbuilding in the Bay Area (National Parks Service) “A Day’s Work” (FoundSF) [17:20] Newsreel footage [17:30] Light reading on the Great Migration: “Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North” (NPR) The African-American Migration Story (PBS) “Why African Americans Left the South in Droves” (Vox) The Long-Lasting Legacy of the Great Migration (Smithsonian) “The 'Great Migration' Was About Racial Terror, Not Jobs” (City Lab) “The Second Great Migration: A Historical Overview” (University of Chicago Press) United States Census [18:20] Light reading on the War Manpower Commission [18:40] The war effort impact on Bayview-Hunters Point And on the population increases (San Francisco Chronicle) [19:00] Excerpt from The Highest Tradition (1946) [19:30] Light reading on treatment of African Americans in the war effort (PBS) Additional reading on A. Philip Randolph Light reading on Executive Order 8802 [21:50] Light reading on how the Japanese internment shaped San Francisco (The Culture Trip) [22:40] Light reading on the history of the Fillmore District (KQED) [23:00] Light reading on Jack’s Tavern (KQED) [23:20] Light reading on Marie Harrison (San Francisco Chronicle) [24:00] “Take Me Back Baby” by Jimmy Rushing [24:30] On San Francisco’s role as the “Harlem of the West” (NPR) Photos from back in the day. Note Bob Scobey’s ‘Don’t Call it Frisco’ jazz band in the gallery. (Timeline) [24:40] “Ghost of Yesterday” by Billie Holiday [25:00] Review of the  Failure and the Harlem Renaissance argument (The Georgia Review) [25:50] “Leave the TV On” by Blue Dot Sessions [28:40] Light reading on Juneteenth [30:00] Related: James Baldwin on Urban Renewal [30:45] The Dynamic American City [31:30] Related reading on Urban Renewal: “The Racist Roots Of “Urban Renewal” And How It Made Cities Less Equal” (Fast Company) “The Wastelands of Urban Renewal” (City Lab) Urban Renewal and Its Aftermath A Study in Contradictions: The Origins and Legacy of the Housing Act of 1949 Urban Revitalization in the United States: Policies and Practices [32:00] Audio of construction site (Freesound.org) [32:20] Light reading on the legacy of the  Housing Act of 1949: Legacy of the Housing Act of 1949: The Past, Present, and Future of Federal Housing and Urban Policy Additional reading on the birth of slum removal and urban renewal Timeline of public housing projects in the US [33:30] Light reading on the Housing Act of 1965 and 1968 A Rundown of Just How Badly the Fair Housing Act Has Failed (Washington Post) The Legacy of the 1968 Fair Housing Act Residential Segregation after the Fair Housing Act (American Bar Association) [33:45] Renewing Inequality Project (University of Richmond) [35:00] “Our Digital Compass” by Blue Dot Sessions [35:35] Inspired by this song [35:40] Two tales of urban renewal’s impact on San Francisco’s black population: How Urban Renewal Destroyed The Fillmore In Order to Save It (Hoodline) Racism — and politics — in SF Redevelopment history (48 Hills) [35:45] On the population metrics of San Francisco’s black population: The Loneliness of Being Black in San Francisco (The New York Times) San Francisco's Black population is less than 5 percent (KTVU) The Dream vs. Reality: On Being Black in San Francisco (The Bold Italic) [37:10] On black home ownership in San Francisco (City and County of San Francisco) [37:15] Related: On access to bank loans San Francisco State College protests (FoundSF) Job opportunities back in the day (FoundSF) [37:30] The killing of Matthew Peanut Johnson (San Francisco Chronicle) [37:50] Patrolman Alvin Johnson retelling what happened on the day Matthew “Peanut” Johnson was killed (Bay Area Television Archive) [40:15] 1964: Civil Rights Battles (The Atlantic) Additional reading here [40:35] Short excerpt of video from San Francisco’s 1966 riot [41:00] Light reading on the Human Be-In Festival All the Human Be-In Was Saying 50 Years Ago, Was Give Peace a Chance (The Nation) Full program of the Be-In Festival [43:00] “Passing Station 7” by Blue Dot Sessions [43:50] Light reading on the Big Five   Footage of the Big Five supporting S.F. State Student Strike in 1968 Public Hearing in Bayview Hunters Point with Robert Kennedy (KQED) [45:25] Light reading on The Big Five’s March on Washington—Redevelopment and the Politics of Place in Bayview-Hunters Point (UC Berkeley) [46:40] Andre Herm Lewis from Part I [48:30] “Hunters Point Health Problems Called an `Epidemic'” (San Francisco Chronicle) San Francisco Department of Health Recommendations (2006) [49:40] 'Appropriation At Its Worst': Supervisor Slams 'Bayview Is The New Mission' Ads (Hoodline) [51:40] Light reading on the toxic state of San Francisco’s Navy Shipyard (San Francisco Magazine) [55:05] More at thisissomenoise.com [56:20] Podcast Recommendation: American Suburb (KQED)    

Joined by Sam Conroy from Animation Heroine, we discuss sexual harassment more in-depth: events in recent animation news, laws to know to protect yourself, how to be an advocate for others, as well as how to process all of this for your well-being. Oh, and we bust out some Leslie Knope quotes to make ourselves feel better. Please note that we are not lawyers, but Sam has researched this topic and shares her findings in this episode and also gives us plenty of ideas of how to seek this information out for ourselves. Most laws shared are specific to California or NY as laws may vary per state.  We're just two people who were deeply affected by this event and want to share what we've learned with you. We're lucky to have a wonderful support system in each other, and hope that you feel supported, too.   Know your resources. Know your boundaries. Vocalize when your boundaries have been crossed. Hold each other accountable.   More on the Fair Employment and Housing Act (commonly called “FEHA”): https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/resources/frequently-asked-questions/employment-faqs/sexual-harassment-faqs/ http://www.employees-lawyer.com/sexual-harassment-law-california/ https://www.shouselaw.com/employment/harassment-definition.html   If you missed WIA and TAG's panel on Sexual Harassment, read about one animator's emotional story here: http://deadline.com/2017/12/women-in-animation-sexual-harassment-1202221766/   Interesting reads surrounding this topic: http://www.slashfilm.com/pixar-mess-john-lasseter/ http://theweek.com/articles/734903/sexual-assault-backlash-coming-heres-how-respond   Repost from previous episode: If you'd like to dig in deeper, here is further reading… About Handling Harassment: https://www.betterbrave.com http://womeninanimation.org/sexualharassment/?utm_content=buffer3c06b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/california-defamation-law https://www.teenvogue.com/story/best-friend-sexual-assault-survivor About Harassment in Hollywood and other workplaces: http://www.lennyletter.com/work/a1024/why-im-snitching-on-hollywood-sexism/ *Hear Daley read her letter on the ScriptNotes podcast: http://scriptnotes.net/scriptnotes-voice-snitching-on-sexism *And then hear her discuss sexism and the post-Weinstein era further with ScriptNotes's John August and Craig Mazin. http://scriptnotes.net/322-the-post-weinstein-era http://scriptnotes.net/324-all-of-it-needs-to-stop Jess and Vicki from the Grilled Cheese & Gin podcast discuss the #metoo movement through their own experiences. Along with the outpouring of stories from my friends and colleagues, this was the cherry on top of my week where I cried. It's not ok. And you are not alone. https://grilledcheeseandgin.podbean.com/e/metoo/ Aminou and Ann from Call Your Girlfriend discuss Weinstein and enablers on these two podcast episodes: http://www.callyourgirlfriend.com/episodes#/episode-115-tip-of-the-creep-iceberg/ http://www.callyourgirlfriend.com/episodes#/episode-116-loophole-women/ Other related links: https://www.buzzfeed.com/susancheng/paul-johansson?utm_term=.ajZaWlmD7#.vpxyYpAOv http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-hr-sexual-harassment-20171028-story.html https://www.ted.com/talks/jessica_ladd_the_reporting_system_that_sexual_assault_survivors_want/up-next About the Chris Savino case: http://deadline.com/2017/10/the-loud-house-creator-chris-savino-fired-nickelodeon-sexual-harassment-allegations-1202191786/ http://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/fired-loud-house-creator-chris-savino-ashamed-deeply-sorry-154228.html http://cornellsun.com/2017/10/25/chris-savino-cartoon-brew-and-how-not-to-respond-to-sexual-violence/  

12/12/2016 - The Usual Suspects (Kristy Hunt, T. Rich, Slli'm Williams, and da Vinci Parks) reconvene to discuss a broad range of topics: Reproductive Rights, Human Rights, Food Apartheid and more--all while Kristy talks loudly with her hands.  It's a Philly thing.  Join us! Ohio Politician Who Lobbied for ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Has ‘Never Thought About’ Why a Woman Would Want an Abortion Venezuela food crisis deepens as shipments plummet *Lee and Slli'm meant the Housing Act of 1937, not the Homestead Act (of 1862). Can't get enough of The Usual Suspects?  What would you like to hear more about?  Check us out ion our Flash/Black Facebook group and let us know.

In GBA 277 we get better acquainted with Zack. He talks acting, therapy, art, activism, politics, that time he wen't a bit viral for heckling Jeremy Corbyn, how he views the political landscape of party politics as someone who has tried to create social change from within the system, being a hypnotherapist who doesn't believe in hypnotism and so much more. This conversation was recorded in a busy cafe on Zack's birthday, in a world where Donald Trump was not yet President Elect. Zack plugs: Team Angelica: http://teamangelica.com/ Rikki Beadle Blair: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rikki_Beadle-Blair London International Gospel Choir: http://internationalgospelchoir.uk/ Stephen Hoo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfYNhOMIypk I plug: The Family Tree: http://thefamilytreepodcast.co.uk/ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thefamilytreepodcast We mention: Son of Man: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sonofman/son-of-man-a-jesus-play-for-atheists International Men's Day: http://www.internationalmensday.com/ Alex: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/sets/the-alex-and-dave-files Alex's Son of Man episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-165-alex-2 Short Sighted Cinema: http://shortsightedcinema.com/ Show about Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity 42 Beans: https://www.facebook.com/42BeansCafe/ Fragile Masculinity: https://www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/masculinity-is-still-fracturing-all-the-time Axe the Housing Act: http://www.axethehousingact.org.uk/ Momentum: http://www.peoplesmomentum.com/ Private Renters Union: http://www.sianberry.london/news/housing/2016-01-28-london-renters-union/ Focus E15: https://focuse15.org/ Black Lives Matter: http://blacklivesmatter.com/ Proportional Representation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation Compass: https://www.compassonline.org.uk/ Jo Cox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Cox Sian Berry: http://www.sianberry.london/ George (W) Bush: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush Nick Clegg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg Owen Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Smith Green Party: https://www.greenparty.org.uk/ Jeremy Corbyn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn Anna Soubry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Soubry Caroline Lucas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Lucas Clive Lewis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Lewis_(politician) Tim Farron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Farron Heckling Corbyn: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/let-our-friend-stay-corbyn-insists 2020 Extinctions article: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/oct/27/world-on-track-to-lose-two-thirds-of-wild-animals-by-2020-major-report-warns Universal Basic Income: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income Keir Starmer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Starmer Natalie Bennett: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Bennett Death of the Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_the_Author Tasha GBA: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-273-natasha-magigi Beautiful Anonymous: http://www.earwolf.com/show/beautiful-anonymous/ This American Life: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/ True Blood: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Blood Leftovers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Leftovers_(TV_series) Game Theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory Help more people get better acquainted. If you like what you hear why not write an iTunes review? Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, we convene another session of our popular feature, “Libertarians in Living Rooms Drinking Liquor!” Host Marc Clair welcomes in fellow liquored-up libertarians Brian McWilliams, John “Odie” Odermatt, and Howie Snowdon. As per usual, the show begins with the gang revealing their drinks of choice. Brian kicks the conversation off by bringing up the Supreme Court's recent 5-4 vote that ruled disparate-impact claims can be filed under the fair Housing Act of 1968.  This prompts Marc to launch into a rant about the overuse of the word discrimination and the group generally agrees that they have no idea how this law can be enforced on a large scale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Lions of Liberty Podcast, we convene another session of our popular feature, “Libertarians in Living Rooms Drinking Liquor!” Host Marc Clair welcomes in fellow liquored-up libertarians Brian McWilliams, John “Odie” Odermatt, and Howie Snowdon. As per usual, the show begins with the gang revealing their drinks of choice. Brian kicks the conversation off by bringing up the Supreme Court’s recent 5-4 vote that ruled disparate-impact claims can be filed under the fair Housing Act of 1968.  This prompts Marc to launch into a rant about the overuse of the word discrimination and the group generally agrees that they have no idea how this law can be enforced on a large scale.

The Housing Act 1988 is an important act for landlords - I talk to David Smith about issues such as shared properties, increasing rent and section 21 notices The post Solicitor David Smith talks about the Housing Act 1988 #landlordlawlive appeared first on The Landlord Law Blog.

David Smith is a solicitor and acknowledged expert on many areas of property law, especially residential landlord and tenant law and HMO law. He has worked in landlord and tenant law for almost ten years, and as well as writing on the subject he regularly provides specialist training and lectures on topics such as the Housing Act. See this episode on the Property Geek site: https://www.propertygeek.net/podcast/legal-landlords-david-smith

V. James ("Jim") DeSimone graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1981 and earned his law degree from UCLA in 1985. Jim was admitted to practice law in California in 1985 and has dedicated his law career to providing vigorous and ethical representation and making a difference for those whose civil and constitutional rights are violated by corporations or government entities. In 1990, he joined Ben Schonbrun to form Schonbrun & DeSimone. The firm, now Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison represents plaintiffs in civil rights and class action cases, with an emphasis on employment discrimination and harassment and constitutional rights violations, including government and police misconduct. The firm quickly established a niche in representing plaintiffs in sexual harassment cases in the entertainment industry. He was lead counsel for the plaintiff in the precedent setting case of Mogilefsky v. Silver Pictures, 20 Cal App. 4th 409 (1993) which was the first published California decision to recognize that same sex harassment violated the California Fair Employment & Housing Act. www.losangelesemploymentlawyer.com