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...could push back the hair from Frederick’s face with a gentle hand, but the thought merely made her blush and look at the floor.With a sigh, Frederick stood violently and exited the room. A paper fell from his Byron. Roxanna automatically picked it up. The poor man! thought our little countrymaid, gazing after him through the sunny open doorway, so different from the dark orifices and somber corners of the manor in England. But no! and Roxanna shook her golden head firmly. She wished that she were not so invested in Frederick’s happiness, were...
Community activists say a mass opt-out by landlords would leave many poor people with only the alternative of receiving HUD vouchers to help pay their rents. While the voucher system has advantages, the current wait to qualify for it is already extremely long. And while renters can try to use the vouchers to pay for the housing they currently occupy, landlords are not required to accept them...
Despite stereotypes of poor families living in unkempt tenements, Chan says, threats to subsidized housing affect largely middle- and working-class residents. Says Chan: "In a worse-case scenario, owners [would] buy out all the Mitchell Lama [New York State's housing subsidy] program buildings; they go straight to market rate and no government agency would regulate the buildings, and people might not get Section 8 vouchers, so the question becomes whether it can sustain working and middle class people...
...enough landlords opt out, the challenges will be forbidding - and not just for the poor renters who will need government help to find places to live. Building owners hope to attract wealthier tenants to fill the vacancies. But there just might not be enough of these to go around. Says Howard Husock, vice president of policy research at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative New York-based think tank: "If you look at the location of many of the buildings that are discussed, there is not an unlimited supply of investment bankers who are going to move into lower-income areas...
...muddled government policies, a groundswell of distress at maternal mortality rates is at last stirring action. At the July G-8 summit of industrialized nations in Hokkaido, Japan, leaders for the first time discussed maternal deaths as a crucial obstacle to development. And there has been progress. Some poor countries have shown rapid results from investments in maternal health: in Honduras, for example, maternal mortality rates dropped about 50% from 1990 to '97 after officials opened scores of rural clinics and trained thousands of midwives. Nepal and Sri Lanka have trained midwives in emergency obstetrics. In the Indian states...