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Freitagabend in Wädenswil – Mit Sozialarbeitern an den Brennpunkten unterwegs 40 Stunden pro Woche sind Sozialarbeitende auf Wädenswils Strassen im Einsatz und fühlen den Puls bei Jugendlichen und Menschen am Rande der Gesellschaft. Francesca Prader 0 Kommentare In grauen T-Shirts und mit einer gelben Umhängetasche sind Hasan Memeti und Aurel Greter als aufsuchende Sozialarbeiter in Wädenswil im Einsatz. Foto: Patrick Gutenberg Hat Wädenswil ein Problem mit Jugendgewalt? Diese Frage stellte sich, nachdem im Mai eine Auseinandersetzung zwischen Jugendlichen auf der Oberdorfstrasse blut...

‘The biggest proposal we’ve seen in a long time’: How Biden’s $2.3-trillion infrastructure plan will invest in America’s housing MarketWatch 18 hrs ago © Spencer Platt/Getty Images When President Joe Biden unveiled his infrastructure package — nicknamed the American Jobs Plan — he didn’t just lift the curtain on a proposal to improve the nation’s roads and expand broadband access. The package, if passed, would also represent one of the largest investments in housing the country has seen in many years. Popular Searches As part of the $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan, the...

A version of this article was first published in Next City. Last summer, the House of Representatives passed the Moving Forward Act, a $1.5 trillion plan to upgrade the national infrastructure and combat climate change by reducing demand for fossil fuels. The bill incorporated a handful of amendments related to housing and homelessness offered by a group of Congressional Democrats. One of those amendments, introduced by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), would have repealed the Faircloth Amendment, a 1990s-era rule that prevents the expansion of public housing in the United States. Repeali...

The Senate never took up the Moving Forward Act. But housing advocates continue to focus on repealing the Faircloth Amendment. The New York Times recently ran an op-ed labeling a repeal of the rule as the “first step to addressing the country’s housing affordability problem.” On the other side, Jenny Schuetz, a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution, recently argued that “focusing debate on the Faircloth Amendment is a red herring—a political distraction from more tangible obstacles to low-cost housing.” Here’s a look at the basics. What ...