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| | Monetizing Envy and America’s Housing Bubble by Eric Englund |
 | | As part of the New Deal, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was established in 1934. | | | The United States has devolved from a republic to a social democracy in which its citizens, for the most part, have become rude, lazy, stupid, and hedonistic (all characteristics of a people with high time preferences – refer to page 68 of Democracy: The God That Failed). | | | However, these low rates are not sustainable in a social democracy which inherently is populated by people with high time preferences. |
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/englund/englund13.html
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| | Liverpool Liberal Party |
| | Liberal Party Cllr Steve Radford is to meet senior officers of Berrybridge Housing on Monday 21st March, if you have comments on this housing association please e mail us on northwestliberalparty@hotmail.com | | | Liberal Party Cllrs have written to Riverside Housing concerning the neglect of their properties in both Newsham Drive and Judges Drive. | | | In fact only this month at the city council the Lib Dem Group on the council reiterated this policy, the only dissent being from our Liberal Party Group and one lone Lib Dem rebel John Coyne. |
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http://www.liverpoolliberalparty.motime.com
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| | KnowledgePlex: Rethinking the Social Role of Public Housing, 1993 |
| | KnowledgePlex: Rethinking the Social Role of Public Housing, 1993 | | | This evaluation is used as the basis for proposing a new social role for public housing defined around the concept of social capital. | | | For changes in public housing tenant selection policies to occur, an alternative social role for public housing must be defined. |
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http://www.knowledgeplex.org/showdoc.html?kpid=2154&p=1
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| | The Social Security (Claims and Information) (Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) Regulations 2002 |
| | Regulation 6 enables the Secretary of State to transfer information on social security matters that includes information relating to housing benefit or council tax benefit to the local authority where necessary for the proper performance of its functions relating to housing benefit or council tax benefit. | | | These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Claims and Information) (Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit) Regulations 2002 and shall come into force on 17th May 2002. | | | Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions |
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http://www.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2002/20021132.htm
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| | Sinn Féin: Changes in rent supplement scandalous say Sinn Féin |
| | No evidence has been given showing the necessity for this change and it appears from the disagreement between the Junior Minister with responsibility for Housing and the Minister for Social and Family Affairs that there has been no cross- departmental consultation on its impact or implementation. | | | Crowe critical of Coughlan on Social Welfare figures | | | While the rent supplement scheme does not represent a preferable method of assisting people in housing, in the absence of housing reform it fulfills a very necessary function, which enables many people who would otherwise become homeless to remain in private rented accommodation. |
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http://sinnfein.ie/news/detail/2597
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| | Costa Rica: Promising Negotiations by Persons with Disabilities and the Government |
| | Thanks to the open and constructive attitude of Vice President Saborío, who is president of the Social Council, the negotiations had a good start. | | | That the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (Ministerio de Trabajo y Seguridad Social, MTSS) be provided with the adequate budget as it needs to develop a policy to foster work for persons with disabilities at both, the private and the public sector. | | | The Vice President perfectly understood the our demands cannot be treated as "help" but as social and economical strengthening for a sector of the population in search of justice and whose urgent situation is a matter of human rights and social inclusion. |
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http://www.disabilityworld.org/06-08_03/gov/costarica.shtml
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| | Costa Rica culture facts: Government and History |
| | These reforms included socialized medicine, low-cost housing, child welfare, minimum wage laws, the university system, and many legal and constitutional reforms that gave important rights to citizens and workers. | | | The two major parties are centrist, with the ruling PUSC inclined to the Christian democratic right and the opposition PLN tilted to the moderate Social Democratic left. | | | With the country on the brink of social revolution, an unlikely alliance formed in 1940 to chart the countrys unique course for the rest of the 20th century. |
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http://www.american-european.net/government.shtml
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| | Progressivism |
| | Unfortunately, these reformers also used a great deal of social coercion in their attempts to make life better—and in the process, argue the authors, often ignored social justice. | | | Though many laws were passed regarding housing and working conditions especially, the belief that laws would fundamentally change behavior was naïve. | | | Claiming that in general the progressives “sought to improve the conditions of life and labor and to create as much social stability as possible” (2), the authors point out that because of differences in ideology and methodology, progressivism was not a unified movement. |
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http://home.apu.edu/~blamkin/progressivism.htm
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| | Newswire - Irish Social Forum - Indymedia Ireland |
| | Actor Cillian Murphy today (Monday 23rd Feb) helped launch a major public awareness campaign for the charity Focus Ireland to highlight the growing problem of homelessness and social housing crisis in Ireland. | | | This is an invite to the second Irish Social Forum to be held Fri 8th Oct to Sun 10th. | | | Another central theme will be racism in Ireland and its role in neoliberalism. |
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http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?topic_id=8
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| | Germany: The crisis of the Social Democratic Party |
| | This self-designated “fighter for social justice” is to be minister for transport and construction, and in this function will be responsible for the implementation of planned cuts in public housing construction. | | | Social insurance contributions for the long-term unemployed are to be lowered, meaning that the unemployed will be doubly punished because they will be entitled later to a substantially lower pension. | | | At the end of August Klaus Wiesehügel, chairman of the trade union, Construction-Agriculture-Environment, and a member of the social democratic parliamentary fraction, presented a protest resolution against the cuts package. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/sep1999/germ-s14.shtml
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| | NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FILM FESTIVAL |
| | Ten years after democratic elections in South Africa a new social movement is being born in S.A. Like the mass democratic movement, which challenged apartheid, the new social movement is rooted in struggles in communities around the country for a better life. | | | Initially they were evicted, but in a landmark judgment the constitutional court ordered the government to provide housing for its poorest citizens. | | | Just as the struggles against apartheid were part of a broader movement for national liberation in the South and solidarity groups in the North, so the new South African social movements are linked to social justice struggles around the world. |
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http://www.queensu.ca/msp/pages/Conferences/Film.htm
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| | Social Activism: Special Collections |
| | Collection consists of political (as a member of the Nevada State Legislature) and personal correspondence re: supporting Union Labor, the need for proper housing for African Americans, appointment to the Council of Defense of Nevada by the Governor, and visits from the governor. | | | Subjects include juvenile delinquency, criminal justice, Clark County land use, energy and the League of Women Voters. | | | There is also a photo of Anderson with President Nixon during the Apollo 11 splashdown in July, 1969. |
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http://library.nevada.edu/speccol/ms_subj/social.html
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| | Social Policy |
| | The Urban Institute is a nonprofit nonpartisan policy research and educational organization established to examine the social, economic, and governance problems facing the nation, including low-income housing and welfare. | | | This is a New York-based, nonprofit social policy research organization focused on measuring the effectiveness of federal and state welfare policies to improve the independence and wellbeing of low-income families. | | | This report is from "State of the States 2006," Stateline.org's annual overview of significant policy trends in the 50 states. |
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http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=135&languageId=1&contentId=-1
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| | Social Policy |
| | School desegregation, civil rights law, housing segregation, urban policy. | | | Students submit applications for admission to the Committee on Higher Degrees in Social Policy, which must be accepted as well by the admissions committee of either the Department of Government or the Department of Sociology. | | | This paper should emanate from the Social Policy Proseminar and may be used as the basis for the qualifying paper. |
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http://www.gsas.harvard.edu/programs/degree/socpol.html
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| | Moldova before parliamentary election |
| | According to a survey by the International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies, the CPM may hope for 4849 percent of votes, DM for 2526 percent, CDPP for 1011 percent, and the Social Democratic Party of Moldova (SDPM) for 89 percent. | | | Democratic Moldova claims it will create 100 thousand new jobs, increase salaries to US$ 250300 per month, reduce taxes, build free housing financed from public funds for the poorest, and increase pensions. | | | The CPM garnered 48 percent of votes in the elections for City and Regional Councils, in which parties presently forming Democratic Moldova won 30 percent votes, and the CDPP 7 percent. |
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http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-136292-16&type=Analysis
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| | Social Union: Main Menu |
| | The Council includes representation from nine provinces, both territories and the Government of Canada and is co-chaired by Liza Frulla, Minister of Social Development Canada, and Tim Sale, Minister of Family Services and Housing, Manitoba. | | | irst Ministers created the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Council on Social Policy Renewal* in 1996 and directed it to guide the social union initiative. | | | In working to build a strong social union, the Government of Canada and the provinces and territories have reached a broad consensus that the first priorities should be children in poverty and persons with disabilities. |
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http://socialunion.gc.ca/menu_e.html
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| | IALHI News Service: Rethinking Social Democracy |
| | Social democracy and society: the re-making or reordering of society; the problem of equality; housing and welfare; the role of education; social liberalism and social authoritarianism. | | | Effects on working class voters of challenge from neo-liberalism's challenge to 'social democratic consensus'. | | | The social democratic party: party structures and membership, electoral strategy and electoral performance, forms of representation and participation. |
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http://www.ialhi.org/news/i0307_3.html
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| | GREEN PARTY PLATFORM Learn more about the national Green Party |
| | Decent, AFFORDABLE HOUSING for every American must be a component of a campaign at the federal, state and local level. | | | Social diversity is the well-spring of community life, where old and young, rich and poor, people of all races and beliefs can interact individually and learn to care for each other, to understand and cooperate. | | | We support JUDICIAL REFORM that opens up the court system, makes it affordable and convenient to ordinary citizens, and provides for more efficient administration of justice. |
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http://gp.org/platform/2000
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| | Robert Glassman Social Activism article |
| | Considered at the vanguard of socially responsible investing, Wainwright Bank is especially committed to affordable housing, community development, women's rights, and the gay and lesbian community. | | | From his early years in Jersey City, New Jersey, through his military service in Vietnam, to his subsequent studies at Harvard Business School and eventual entry into the financial services industry, to his roles as philanthropist, volunteer, and social entrepreneur, Mr. | | | Glassman has remained committed to issues of social justice. |
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http://www.wainwrightbank.com/site/PR-GBBC03-02.asp
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| | NotiSur - Latin American Political Affairs; July 21, 1995 |
| | "With the formation of this new cabinet, the president will give a vigorous impetus to the social policies already underway, especially employment, housing, education, and health programs designed to benefit all Colombians." The cabinet's resignation came one day after Samper met with leaders of the Liberal, Conservative, and Alianza Democratica (ADM-19) parties. | | | Earlier, in June, Senator Jaime Arias, leader of the opposition Partido Conservador, expressed dissatisfaction with the president's positions on tax reform and the peace talks with the guerrillas, and he rejected the government-proposed pact to support Samper's policies. | | | However, although the number of women in the 15-member cabinet increased from two to three, the ideological makeup remains the same, with 11 members of the governing Partido Liberal and four from the Partido Conservador. |
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http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/news/notisur/h95/notisur.19950721.html
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| | New Books |
| | Dutch Housing Associations: A Model for Social Housing | | | Matter of Context: Social Inequalities in Incidence of Myocardial Infarction | | | Election Law of Bosnia & Herzegovina [In English & Bosnian] |
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http://www.coronetbooks.com/new.html
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| | Ministry for the Family & Social Solidarity |
| | Housing Construction and Maintenance, Department of Social Housing, more | | | Social Security, District Offices, National Commission on Welfare Reform, more | | | © 2001-2005 Ministry for the Family and Social Solidarity Accessibility |
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http://www.msp.gov.mt
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| | New Books |
| | Dutch Housing Associations: A Model for Social Housing | | | Environmental efforts in the Netherlands' social housing sector | | | Sustainable Solutions for Dutch Housing: Reducing the Environmental Impacts of New and Existing Houses |
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http://www.coronetbooks.com/new.html
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| | Kelsen and his Circle: The Viennese Years |
| | The notable accomplishments of Municipal Vienna under social democratic rule in the areas of adult education, educational reform and housing ensured the social democratic movement support from many bourgeois intellectuals. | | | 47 See Kelsen's `Democracy and Socialism', The Law School, The University of Chicago, Conference on Jurisprudence and Politics. | | | The unique role of Austrian social democracy derives from the fact that it cultivated a traditional Marxist rhetoric while, in view of the notorious weakness of the liberal bourgeoisie in Austria, becoming a sort of protecter of modern trends per se. |
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http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol9/No2/art9-04.html
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| | Croatia |
| | The military authorities have also eroded the rule of law in Croatia by refusing to comply with judicial orders restoring housing rights to evicted occupants. | | | It also leads to the social and economic marginalization of the minority population, forcing people to leave one republic and emigrate to a republic in which they would be part of the majority but which they do not otherwise consider their home. | | | In some instances, abuses of civil and political rights in Croatia are indirectly or directly associated with the wars in Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. |
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http://www.hrw.org/reports/1995/Croatia.htm
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| | Urban Development Strategy of the Government of National Unity |
| | It will also be refocusing, Rationalising, consolidating and repositioning parastatal housing bodies at national and provincial level. | | | It is based on a large number of racially based laws and ordinances inherited at national and provincial level, as well as from former homelands. | | | It is a joint initiative of the Government of National Unity, the major political parties and local government stakeholders. |
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http://www.anc.org.za/rdp/urban2.html
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| | New Books |
| | Dutch Housing Associations: A Model for Social Housing | | | Centrality - Regionality: The Social Structure of Southern Sweden during the Iron Age | | | Marriage in Motion: A Study on the Social Context & Processes of Marital Satisfaction |
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| | Dutch Housing Associations: A Model for Social Housing | | | Centrality - Regionality: The Social Structure of Southern Sweden during the Iron Age | | | Christian Democratic Parties in Europe Since the End of the Cold War |
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http://www.coronetbooks.com/new.html
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| | Dutch Housing Associations: A Model for Social Housing | | | Christian Democratic Parties in Europe Since the End of the Cold War | | | Heart & Soul of the Party: Candidate Selection in Ghana & Africa |
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http://www.coronetbooks.com/new.html
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| | Dutch Housing Associations: A Model for Social Housing | | | Centrality - Regionality: The Social Structure of Southern Sweden during the Iron Age | | | Christian Democratic Parties in Europe Since the End of the Cold War |
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http://www.coronetbooks.com/new.html
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