L.A. plans revival for center of crime, poverty, By Jacob Adelman, (AP), September 2, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle: “Juanita Sims has lived in the notorious Jordan Downs project in Watts for almost four decades, raising eight children behind the barred windows of the cramped barracks-like apartments. She moved in shortly after the Watts riots in the 1960s left almost three dozen people dead and made the South Los Angeles community a national symbol of urban decay. Now Sims fears she’ll have to leave, just as Watts emerges from years of neglect with a proposed urban village of shops, homes and businesses that would force the demolition of Jordan Downs…”
Tag: Public Housing
Computer Errors Affecting Program Recipients – Nevada, New York City
- Glitch leaves 7K NV food stamp recipients without, By Sandra Chereb (AP), August 5, 2009, San Francisco Chronicle: “State welfare officials were scrambling Wednesday to contact about 7,000 food assistance recipients who didn’t receive a 45-day notice before their benefits expired July 31. A June 16 computer glitch is blamed, and officials were trying to contact participants to re-evaluate their continued eligibility under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…”
- Computer error caused rent woes for public housing tenants, By Manny Fernandez, August 5, 2009, New York Times: “The city’s public housing agency overcharged hundreds of welfare families because of a rent calculation error and took many of them to court, threatening them with eviction for failing to pay the higher amount. The computer problem at the agency, the New York City Housing Authority, is in the process of being corrected and none of the tenants were evicted, officials said. But the error, which began last September and continued until May, had serious legal, financial and personal consequences for many low-income families…”
Razing of Large Public Housing Projects – Atlanta, GA
Public housing moving out, By Dionne Walker (AP), July 29, 2009, Washington Times: “The nation’s bulldozer attack on crime and poverty soon will make Atlanta – home of the first public housing development – the first major city to eliminate all of its large housing projects. Cities from Boston to Los Angeles are following its lead. For more than 15 years, housing officials across the country have been razing the projects where about 1.2 million families live and replacing them with a mix of higher-rent and subsidized apartments and homes…”