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Landlords can receive $2,000 if they sign 1-year leases with participants in Bucks County Housing Link, the county’s housing crisis response system.

Bucks County is extending its program which provides cash incentives to landlords who lease to low-income renters, many of whom are at risk of experiencing homelessness. Landlords can get a bonus equal to two months of rent for signing a year-long lease with a tenant enrolled in Bucks County Housing Link and real estate professionals who refer landlords to the program are eligible for a $2,000 check.

The Bonus for Bucks Landlords program has paid out more than $15,000 in incentives its first six months.

GRFT101 Is The First Ever Tertiary-Level Grifting Course Otago Universe-City LTD has released a new product to the North Dunedin market. The limited liability company said in a press release that it was “excited” and “thrilled” to be offering the southern hemisphere’s first class on grifting as a first step in establishing the prestigious and long awaited Otago Buinesslike School. GRFT101: Remarkable Rackets is expected to cover an “introduction to tricks and techniques of grift”,...

CHARLESTOWN — Jeff Fields, President of the Charlestown Board of Town Commissioners, announced that he was tenuring his resignation from the Board on Thursday morning. “I basically resigned for health and personal reasons,” Fields told the Cecil Whig late Thursday afternoon, declining to elaborate further on his reasons. Fields, who started serving as Board President in March 2020, was more than halfway through his second two-year term when he resigned. The next election for Fiel...

A cactus rests by the windowsill, perched above eight large plastic bins packed with most of Karen McDonalds belongings.  The plant, McDonald said, brings her peace as she moves through a revolving door of homes. Its a symbol of survival in the transient and often unforgiving world of navigating homelessness in the Philadelphia suburbs. In February, hope for a more permanent home came in a Housing Choice Voucher, what many consider the holy grail of subsidized housing. McDonald felt her ...

Deborah Simpson is waiting to learn if she is going to be homeless. For 13 years, the 69-year-old resident has lived at the same Bensalem mobile home park, but the death of her boyfriend three years ago left her struggling to pay the bills. Then came the COVID-19 pandemic, which buried her. She owes her landlord at least $2,000 rent and utilities, according to court records. Her only income is Social Security, which is a little more than $1,100 a month.  In March, the landlord filed paperwo...

NIOBRARA, Neb. (AP) — The state of Nebraska went through one of the worst flood seasons...

2. Make decisions amidst uncertainty “We are in the fourth industrial revolution, a time marked by the interconnection of physical, biological and digital worlds. As these worlds integrate, intelligent ecosystems form and give rise to ‘big bang disruptions,’ thus transforming entire systems, creating and destroying entire product lines, markets and ecosystems overnight,” said Jenai Marinkovic, vChief Technology and Security Officer with Tiro Security, and a member of the ISACA Emerging...

× By Alex Brown, Stateline.org Share: Rows of conifers grow in a greenhouse at the Webster Forest Nursery, operated by the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Washington produces about 8 million seedlings a year for reforestation on state and private lands, but many other states have closed nurseries or cut production in recent years, leaving small forest owners without a crucial supply of trees. (Alex Brown/Stateline/The Pew Charitable Trusts/TNS) When wildfires ri...