Department of Justice has settled a lawsuit against the town of Garner, NC, and the town’s Board of Adjustment. The suit alleged that the town and the Board violated the Fair Housing Act when they refused to allow up to eight men recovering from drug and alcohol addictions to live together as a reasonable accommodation. [...]
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AARP Joins Aging Partnership to Issue Legislative Report. The Oklahoma Aging Partnership (OAP), a non-partisan coalition between AARP Oklahoma, the Oklahoma Alliance on Aging, the Oklahoma Silver Haired Legislature Alumni Association and the Oklahoma State Council on Aging, has released its sixth annual legislative report on aging issues. The report gives details on seven long-term [...]
National Housing Law Project A law and advocacy center dedicated to advancing housing justice for the poor by using the power of the law to increase and preserve the supply of affordable housing, to improve existing housing conditions, to expand and enforce low-income tenants’ and homeowners’ rights, and to increase opportunities for racial and ethnic [...]
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SUMMARY: This rule commences HUD’s regulatory implementation of the Homeless Emergency Assistance and Rapid Transition to Housing Act of 2009 (HEARTH Act), enacted into law on May 20, 2009. The HEARTH Act consolidates three of the separate homeless assistance programs administered by HUD under the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act into a single grant program and [...]
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A 45-member Solutions Initiative Summit (S.I.S.) Blue Ribbon Committee is identifying and refining possible goals and strategies to be included in a “Public Action Plan to Reduce the Rate of Women Incarcerated in Oklahoma.” You are welcome to provide input. Review the current strategies paper at http://oklahomasis.com/strategies/. Then submit your comments and suggestions to oksiscomments@gmail.com.
Public hearing on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at the Conference Center Auditorium at Metro Technology Center, Springlake Campus, located at 1900 Springlake Drive in Oklahoma City. Purpose is to receive public comments on a Strategic Report developed in fulfillment of requirements in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). [...]
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Contact: House Media Office: 405-557-7421 OKLAHOMA CITY (January 14, 2010) – At the conclusion of the filing process at 5 p.m. on Jan. 14 – the last day for state representatives to file legislation – there were 1,153 bills and 31 joint resolutions filed in the Oklahoma House of Representatives for the 2010 legislative session. [...]
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced plans to strengthen the Head Start and Early Head Start programs as part of an Administration-wide effort to close achievement gaps and promote early learning through the first eight years of life for the nation’s most vulnerable children. These quality improvements respond to growing evidence [...]
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The Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 established the Housing Trust Fund (HTF) to provide grants to states to increase and preserve the supply of rental housing for extremely low- and very low-income families, including homeless families, and to increase homeownership for extremely low- and very low-income families. In addition to administering the Housing [...]
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How much do you have to earn to be financially self-sufficient in Oklahoma? Click here [ http://bit.ly/OKSSS2009] for the 2009 report by county and family type.
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