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Please join VOICE for our 2019 Annual Meeting March 17, 2019 - 3:45-5:45 pm Vienna Baptist Church THIS SUNDAY! VOICE Annual Meeting will include time together to--
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Inspectors in protective suits enter an apartment complex as the City of Omaha moves to inspect and potentially shut down the squalid Yale Park Apartments at 34th and Lake Streets, which is home to as many as 500 Myanmar refugees, on Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018.
The outcomes for former Yale Park tenants give us a look at living conditions in low-income housing. They moved into apartments with living conditions similar to those they had been forced out of because unsafe housing is pervasive in our low-income housing market. Omaha does not enforce the minimum housing standard without a complaint. Many times, tenants are afraid to file complaints for fear of retribution or eviction. They may not have the extra cash on hand to move. No one is held accountable.
The failure of Omaha’s complaint-based system of code enforcement is evident in a new website, wedontslum.com. Organizations that work with tenants, whose expertise has not been sought by the mayor and City Council, are collecting and uploading photographs from Omaha rental properties with substandard living conditions to show the widespread and devastating nature of the problem. Story from Omaha World-Herald. 
SCOTT BALL / RIVARD REPORT Mayor Ron Nirenberg meets with members of the COPS Metro Alliance about the City's housing policy.
A community coalition wants to see more aggressive implementation of policies aimed at preventing housing displacement in San Antonio. During a meeting Monday night among more than 100 members of COPS Metro Alliance and Mayor Ron Nirenberg, he said, “I’m listening to you.”
Under Nirenberg’s leadership, San Antonio has for the first time prioritized housing in the City’s annual budget. The mayor established a task force to recommend affordable housing policy measures that City Council adopted last year, but COPS Metro wants to see stronger action from the mayor and Council to prevent people being priced out of their homes or apartments – not just mitigate such displacement. More. 
Leaders from 120 institutions unite behind light rail project: Less traffic, living wage jobs, connection to education, employment, healthcare & affordable housing .
Metro IAF Issue Briefs
Residents of the public housing complex have been organizing with the advocacy non-profit Jersey City Together to voice their poor living conditions, which include heating and hot water issues, mold and broken locks. More
... which launched the Do Not Stand Idly By campaign in 2013. To date, the coalition has gotten more than 120 local and state agencies to sign on to a letter asking gun manufacturers for information.
A New Generation of Entrepreneurs Thinks It Can Revive the Smart Gun 
More than 100 law enforcement officers, gun-safety developers, investors and public officials gathered at the Oak Creek campus of the Milwaukee Area Technical College (MATC) Wednesday for a Firearm Safety Expo to see what the future of firearms looks like. Hosted by Common Ground, the expo innovators presented technology incorporating gun safety features such as biometric locks, user authentication, and theft-tracking technology, all of which has the potential to reduce the number of people killed by guns every year in America.
VOICE leader Laurie Forbes and 25 other VOICE leaders from Emmaus UCC, Accotink UUC and UUCA hold a meeting with Senator Howell in the hallway. Throughout the VA General Assembly there will be teams of VOICE leaders from VOICE's 45 member congregations going to Richmond to move VOICE's 3 Key State issues:
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