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For several decades, various cities and towns in the United States have adopted relocation programs offering homeless people one-way tickets to move elsewhere. [1] [2] Also referred to as "Greyhound therapy", [2] "bus ticket therapy" and "homeless dumping", [3] the practice was historically associated with small towns and rural counties, which had no shelters or other services, sending ...
The Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Policies Act (1970) ("URA") was passed by the U.S. federal government in 1970. It was intended to ensure fair compensation and assistance for those whose property was compulsorily acquired for public use under eminent domain law.
Roosevelt transferred the Federal Emergency Relief Administration land program to the Resettlement Administration under Executive Order 7028 on May 1, 1935. [3] However, Tugwell's goal of moving 650,000 people from 100,000,000 acres (400,000 km 2) of agriculturally exhausted, worn-out land was unpopular among the majority in Congress. [4]
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Residents of Harris County, the largest county in the Houston area, have been selected for the Uplift Harris guaranteed income program. Nearly 2,000 Texas residents to receive $500 a month from ...
These programs then appropriate the money to their partnering agencies in the form of grants, following specified formula guidelines. States ultimately hold the responsibility for carrying out the ORR's mission: “Federal resettlement assistance to refugees is provided primarily through the state-administered refugee resettlement program.
Permanent, federally funded housing came into being in the United States as a part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Title II, Section 202 of the National Industrial Recovery Act, passed June 16, 1933, directed the Public Works Administration (PWA) to develop a program for the "construction, reconstruction, alteration, or repair under public regulation or control of low-cost housing and slum ...
When Steve Wilson, a Fort Worth resident and Star-Telegram employee, kept getting calls, letters, and people showing up to his house talking about a foreclosure, he got worried.