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According to a report given to Congress on Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), overall homeless numbers, taken from a one-day national count in January, were down 12% from 2005 to 2007, to just under 672,000 people, most of whom were on the streets only temporarily. Chronic homelessness is down even more, almost 30% lower than in 2005, from 175,000 to fewer than...
Under the new legislation, which also provides billions to save the country's two largest mortgage banks, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has 60 days to lay out a plan for how the homeowner aid will be disbursed via state and local agencies. After that it has 30 days to send it out. Officials like Rosemond, who this summer created a foreclosure prevention program in his city to help distressed homeowners buy more time, hope that lenders who are poised to pounce with notices will hold off until the money arrives...
These days, urban gardeners are waging lots of different wars--against global warming, foreign-oil dependence, processed food, obesity and neighborhood blight. Turning an old parking lot into a working farm not only helps reduce a city's carbon footprint but can also generate revenue for a down-and-out part of town. To demonstrate how much food can be grown in a small space, a 2006 pilot project on a sub-acre lot on the outskirts of Philadelphia hauled in $67,000 from crops like salad greens and baby vegetables. In Milwaukee, a 1-acre (0.4 hectare) farm filled...
...address a lot of pressing urban issues," says John Bela, a landscape architect who is designing the garden at San Francisco's city hall. He's also working with a group called SF Victory Gardens 2008+ to coordinate a backyard-garden program aimed at increasing access to healthier food among lower-income families...
...provide for their own food needs, but since the Industrial Revolution, the distance from field to fork has greatly increased--the average meal now travels 1,500 miles (2,400 km) to reach your plate. And, notes Bela, "the hidden cost of the food chain is the transport." Thus urban agriculture aims to help people save money as well as the environment...