Family reunification: bringing father's home

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The Family Reunification Program of Connecticut's Hartford Housing Authority is bringing fathers home to be with their families. Inspired by the Million Man March in 1995, the program is aimed at reuniting 100 families who reside in public housing by allowing fathers to move back to their families or children. Fathers have two choices. They can move home with their families, be a resident and be represented on the lease. They can also choose to be financially capable for their children and register with the local child support enforcement agency. The beauty of the program is that it offers fathers the opportunity to bring their families off welfare and provide for them financially. Before they can join the program, the men have to sign a contract indicating their agreement to act as role models, and refuse to sell drugs and associate with people who do, They must also submit to random drug tests.

Housing, Father and child, Father-child relations, Hartford, Connecticut, Family reunions, Housing authorities

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A HUD report card

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The Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the leadership of Sec Andrew Cuomo has made many significant budget and policy accomplishments through the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act. The new housing law, which the Secretary, the National Assn of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, and other housing and community development industry groups lobbied for, increases the HUD's budget by $2 billion. It provides new affordable housing vouchers, introduces new Federal Housing Administration loan limits, and provides empowerment vouchers to help renters become home owners. The new law also reforms the public housing system by reducing segregation and promoting work and self-sufficiency, and increases funding to vital programs.

Housing Programs, Administration of Housing Programs, Laws, regulations and rules, Finance, Public housing, Housing policy, United States. Department of Housing and Urban Development

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Gillian's gift: an inheritance aids low-income children

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Eighteen-year-old Gillian Kilberg established a summer camp for low-income children in 1996 when she received a $20,000 inheritance upon the death of her grandmother, Rita Greene. She named the camp program Grandma Rita's Children Inc because her grandmother loved children and also loved giving. Gillian raised $31,000 in additional funds by writing to local corporations and politicians. Her program serves the children of a low-housing apartment complex in Alexandra, VA, by involving them in activities that they would never have otherwise experienced, such as going to concerts, museums, baseball games and amusement parks. Gillian says that she wants to give underprivileged children what she had when she herself was a child.

Sporting and recreational camps, Summer Camps, Recreational and Vacation Camps (except Campgrounds), Donations, Camps, Camps (Recreation), Poor children, Kilberg, Gillian

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