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Whether its for President or ward leader,
It has to be a politics that works for you.
You can work for a single uniform, national law, a uniform code, a uniform contract between landlord + tenant, you can work to elect people to state legislators and city councils who represent your point of view.
Just make sure its h not a landlord.
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- 2 out of 3 families earning $6,000 or less pay more than 25% of their income to their land lord.
- 2 out of 5 families with incomes less than $6,000 pay more than 35%
- 70% of the households with women over 65 paid over 35%
- Approx. 25 million inner city houses are below city code.
- In 1944, Nathan Straus, first Chairman of the U.S. Housing Authority, wrote that public housing could be expanded "so that, in a few years, every American family will have a healthful + liveable home.
Over 25 years later, one-sixth of the nation still lives in dangerous, sub-standard slum housing.
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a minimum standard for Federal funding would require compliance with all provisions of the 1968 Fair Housing Act and title VI of the 1969 Civil Rights Act