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...future expanded campus. In addition to relocating the existing 213 Charlesview units, the proposal outlines 69 additional affordable rental units and up to 118 home ownership units. At last night’s meeting, the density of the proposed complex was the main concern raised by residents. While the neighborhood now has about 30 people per acre, the blueprint plans for more than 100 people per acre. It also includes a 10-story building that residents say is incompatible with the two- and three-story buildings that make up the rest of the neighborhood. “It?...
...those volunteers is Frank Thornton, a 36-year-old organizer for the SEIU, who spent a recent typically snowy, windy Cleveland afternoon knocking on union household doors in the old Italian neighborhood known as "the flats." "Well, I was for Hillary but Obama says a lot of things I like to hear so I'm still on the fence," said Sherry Rowland, waving Thornton into her living room. "I feel like they've both saying the same things, though...
...says, “I’ve figured out that if you just jerk the Wii remote slightly, it still works the same,” as he sat and barely wiggled his chubby wrists. All I could think about was the empty tennis court in my neighborhood where nobody ever played actual tennis and where bands of overweight kids rode scooters.Nowadays, instead of swinging a real tennis racket, you play Wii. Instead of getting together with friends, you can play Scrabble online. Instead of holding a new record in your hand, you steal the MP3s. Instead of getting...
...Sylvester, 24, slashing a knife in the air. "In a day we can make between 80 and 100 [arrows]," he adds, refusing to give his last name out of fear. Community members pool money together to buy the necessary tools in secret; the arrows are then distributed within the neighborhood. Local leaders know about the arrow factories, but police forces...
...estimated 2.4 million people are still adrift throughout Iraq after being uprooted by violence; roughly another 2 million live as refugees in Jordan, Syria and other neighboring countries. Odhaib's neighborhood is home to about 30,000 internally displaced people. Though violence is down in Iraq, few refugees or internally displaced have been able to piece together their lives again. Some Iraqis have ventured home from havens found in other countries or elsewhere in Iraq. But those returning to Baghdad, where more than half of the displaced once lived, account for just 3% of those who fled. Meanwhile, ongoing violence...