President’s Proposal to Raise Rents on Nation’s Poorest Households Would Cause Serious Harm

By Barbara Sard
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

“The President’s budget proposes to raise the rents charged to more than 500,000 of the nation’s poorest families.  It would do this by raising to $75 a month the ‘minimum rent’ charged to the poorest families in the rental assistance programs that the Department of Housing and Urban Development administers and eliminating state and local housing agencies’ discretion to set the minimum rent below that level.

Posted by Sue Kirby on 03/20/12  •  Permalink  •  Comments 0   •  

BULLY 2012 - A Must-See Movie

Over 13 million American kids will be bullied this year, making it the most common form of
violence experienced by young people in the nation. The new documentary film BULLY,
directed by Sundance and Emmy-award winning filmmaker Lee Hirsch, brings human scale to
this startling statistic, offering an intimate, unflinching look at how bullying has touched five
kids and their families.

Posted by Sue Kirby on 03/19/12  •  Permalink  •  Comments 0   •  

VIDEO:Unaccompanied Youth Video Project.

In the video presented here young people tell their stories in order to help us to better understand what it is like to be a teen living on the street. The video was created by the Mass Coalition for the Homeless to help inform the public about the issue of “unaccompanied homeless youth”.

Posted by Sue Kirby on 03/08/12  •  Permalink  •  Comments 0   •