Souris River Basin Longbeards, Marketplace Foods and Community Action Partnership-Minot Region representatives packed 40 boxes of Christmas dinners at Marketpla
When President Lyndon B. Johnson’s landmark Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 was signed into law, it led to the creation of over a thousand Community Action p
A new report calls for public housing authorities to change certain policies to prevent excluding people with criminal records. The Prison Policy Initiative report finds some public-housing policies work against people who once were convicted, for instance, of using marijuana. While it s legal in 37 states and Washington D.C., the Department of Housing and Urban Development prohibits marijuana use in public housing, since it is still illegal at the federal level. .
After several years of work around housing rights an advocacy group for affordable and safe housing in Shelbyville, Tennessee, is celebrating a victory. Bedford County Listening Project members, renters with the Shelbyville Tenants Organizing for Protection campaign, and the Shelbyville City Council have voted to establish a safe and affordable housing committee to study and make recommendations. Sophia Tillett, a leader of the Bedford County Listening Project, said the Shelbyville Tenants Organizing for Protections campaign began when they spoke to neighbors and discovered many of them were experiencing substandard housing and continuing rent increases, despite the living conditions, which she noted were unlivable and unsafe. .