COSIGN PARTNERS - Key Persons
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- SNRHA Interim Executive Director
SNRHA interim executive director Amparo Gamazo said all tenant files predating Jan. 1, 2016, have been shredded and expunged.
Christopher J. Fedor was waiting with a drill in hand. "We do evictions, trash outs, rehabs," he said.
Mr. Fedor had been hired by HSBC, the bank that now owned the property. His job was to change the lock, check the property for damage and clean it out.
HUD spokesman Ed Cabrera said Wednesday that the department would examine the housing authority's practices.
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- Vice President of Public Affairs With the California Apartment Assn
Fred Sutton, vice president of public affairs with the California Apartment Assn., said the industry group encourages its members to think about the "social impacts as they review the operational realities" of their buildings. But he said some old housing needs to be replaced. Rather than control rents, he encouraged cities to expand housing supply and provide direct rent subsidies to those most at-risk.
Glen McFadden was fuming. He wanted the D.C. City Council to understand just what was happening to him: his landlord, he said, was pushing him out of the Trinidad apartment where he'd lived for seven years. And now his building was surrounded by construction cranes - clear signs of the booming development in his rapidly changing Northeast neighborhood.
We asked the landlord if she was trying to push McFadden out of the apartment. She emailed us back saying because of pending litigation, "I am not authorized to speak to anyone."
Janet L. Smith is a professor of urban planning and policy and co-director of the Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood & Community Improvement at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Real estate expert John Adams has some ideas on the issue of landlord retaliation.
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- Director of Health Care for the Homeless, Sai
Kevin Lindamood, director of Health Care for the Homeless, said the program - leaning on a public-private partnership - is a creative solution in a tough climate for public housing authorities that have seen dramatic disinvestment from the federal government.
"It's a shame to have public housing units that our community owns but aren't habitable because there haven't been resources to renovate them," Lindamood said. "By creatively identifying resources, we can end homelessness for more families."
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- Researcher
- UCLA Researcher
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- Executive Director of Arizona State University
Michael Childs is one of three veterans living at the Nob Hill Apartments. He has most of his rent subsidized by taxpayers.
Childs' home is one of 93 that all failed inspection last month, prompting the housing authority to stop doing business with Nob Hill's out-of-country investors. He used to be homeless before getting a special housing voucher for veterans. So, even though he admits his bathtub has backed up, he's just happy to have a roof over his head.
He said the idea of leaving scares him.
"In my mind, 'Boy you are stuck now,'" Childs said. "'You got to move in the dead of winter. Ain't nobody gonna help you. How are you going to do this? You know, you just get a check once a month. How are you going to do all of this?'"
The Housing Authority of Kansas City's executive director says he took the unprecedented step of terminating a landlord's contract because Nob Hill's owners and property manager simply would not follow the rules.
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- Planning Professor at UCLA
Michael Lens, an urban planning professor at UCLA, recently tried to determine what made one Southern California neighborhood more likely than another to see landlords initiate formal evictions. One hypothesis: gentrification.
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- Professor at West Virginia University
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- Director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, Sai
Richard Green, director of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, said gentrification is being driven by supply and demand. Higher-income individuals increasingly want to live in urban centers. An underlying shortage of housing kicks off a chain reaction, pricing middle-class households out of wealthier areas and forcing those people to seek homes in more affordable neighborhoods.
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- Nevada Legal Services Attorney
And Mayor Ted Wheeler suggested he expects the majority of the council to approve the measure. He proposed six amendments, all but one approved by the council.
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- Director of the Mayor 's Office of Human Services, Sai
Terry Hickey, director of the Mayor's Office of Human Services, said the program is among many efforts underway to serve the approximately 2,500 men, women and children who are homeless in Baltimore. The number is expected to be updated soon as the city awaits the results of a count of homeless people staying in shelters and on the streets on a single night in January.
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- President and CEO of the Phoenix
Thomas Egan, president and CEO of the Phoenix housing nonprofit FSL, said the state needs about 165,000 affordable units costing renters less than 30 percent of their income. Just 2,000 units were built this year, he said.
Nationally, housing inventory has been tight since the recession, said Andrew Aurand of the Low Income Housing Coalition. He said there are fewer units available in coastal cities and metro areas with fast-rising rents like Phoenix, where people can spend more than a third or even half their earnings on housing.
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- Edward Waters College President
Edward Waters College President Zachary Faison did not return a request for comment. An automated email reply said that he would be out of the office until next week, but he has continued to be active on social media.