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President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images) For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units. But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been — then head of the New York City’s main housing agency �...

President-elect Joe Biden (Getty Images) For decades, New York City has offered communities an enticing deal: Approve new housing and locals will get half of the affordable units. But in 2014, the Obama administration warned the city that so-called “community preference” might be reinforcing segregation. The city balked, offering to tweak the policy but not to dump it. “Without any promise of local benefits,” wrote Vicki Been — then head of the New York City’s main housing agency �...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: The District of Columbias urban planning and land use goals will be an early order of business for the Council of the District of Columbia (D.C. Council) in the new year. On Jan. 4, 2021, Chairman Phil Mendelson introduced the Comprehensive Plan Amendment Act of 2020 (B24-01) – the first bill of Council Period 24. The introduction of this bill serves to revive its predecessor, B23-0736, which had not been agendized for a Council leg...

From the tornado. it was an ef-3 tornado. thatst a very strong tornado. winds were 140 miles per hour, and some of the pictures that weve seen, once when the daylight came and the helicopters got up there and gave us pretty incredible, that was the mall area where the home depot was destroyed. an ef-3, the scale goes from 0 to 5, a 5 you wouldnt see those trees and you wont see the house. it would be a clean slab of cement where the house was, but still a very strong tornado. its amazing no seri...

Other country on a daily basis. >> i used to cross it quite frequently when i was there there when i was younger. special me walmart, the mall area, at that time of day, thats where the most people will be in that range, that area. it is very difficult to wrap my head around. it is pre dominantly hispanic. i would vent you are a guess, when you walk into the walmart, youll mostly hear people speaking spanish or english. we consider ourselves, were different countries, el paso and the united stat...

Bounty, the quicker picker upper. mno kidding.rd. from twitter from people whov but moving your internet and tv? thats easy. have been eyewitnesses to the easy?! easy? easy. because now xfinity lets you transfer scene. its not adding anything more than what the police department your service online in just about a minute is saying. again, active shooting. with a few simple steps. everyone stay away from the really? really. sierra vista mall area. that was easy. yup. plus, with two-hour appointme...

Injured? >> i dont have the numbers. i know people have died and there are a number of people injured. i dont have those numbers right now. >> can you confirm that there was only one shooter? >> there was a manifesto online? >> i cant confirm there was a manifesto. we have one person in custody. we believe hes the sole shooter. we did have reports of multiple shootings, so we are sorting that out. at this time we only have one person in custody. the investigation is ongoing. >> is there any sear...

Now, there may be many reasons that we dont know the motive behind it. i heard steve rogers who gave an excellent commentary about this a little earlier, and hes absolutely right. theres so much we dont know. but one of the things, the signs im always looking for is did he leave some kind of a manifesto in the event that he did in fact was killed during the course of killing all of these young people or injuring them? the tragedy about this, jon, is as we look at it, just think about it, 3,000 i...

Says that they cant account for people who may have self-transported themselves. there were so many people shot as a result of this, many of them transported themselves. the shooter, a 21-year-old patrick crusius, according to police, was taken into custody with little to no force used. the entire mall area has been cleared of the victims an interg part as well. theres a disconnect between what the police officer is saying out there and what we are getting from our sources because they are sayin...

In el paso, texas after for victims and -- mall area there at the scene. >> so el paso is the capital of the border, gunman opens fires just for victims and suspects. 4 hours ago at wal-mart >> the size, the scale of what they have to there, we will be right we secured walmart. deal with right now, i el paso, we have a back with continuing we know that area is secure of can only imagine million and a half in logistically it must be suspects. a nightmare, sams club, were tending to the victims. n...