Christian and Muslim criticise ban on religious artefacts at sheltered housing
Residents living at the Places for People-run St Paul’s Court, in Preston, Lancashire have been condemned by Christian and Muslim leaders for displaying religious signs in communal areas of the flat complex.
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Sasa Milosevic: Should Women be Allowed on Holy Mount Athos?
For more than 1,000 years, in respect of a monastic tradition separating the sexes to allow them to focus on their spiritual tasks, women have been banned from Mount Athos. Time may no longer be on their side.
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Addicts put in charge, drug use common in BBH housing
Sun investigation found arrangements raise concerns, including doubts about giving newly sober patients the key to the medicine cabinet Second of two parts; read the first part

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Editorial: Treat homelessness with housing
A man’s home is his castle, the old saying goes. Unless, according to Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett, that fellow previously had been homeless for a year or more.

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First 9 Ex-Cons Move Into Public Housing
For the first time in his life, Joe Burgeson has an apartment to call his own—and a spot in a college classroom.

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Housing crack down on bad neighbours
NOISY neighbours making their fellow residents’ lives a misery could be blacklisted from any other Island rental properties in a Housing crackdown on anti-social behaviour.

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Addiction cited as homeless housing concern
Eleanore Ripley has been a recovering alcoholic for 20 years. But to this day, she says, “the smell of alcohol is a trigger to me.”

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Anchorage commission approves alcoholics’ housing
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – The Anchorage, Alaska, Planning and Zoning Commission has approved a plan to convert a former motel into housing for chronic alcoholics. However, The Anchorage Daily News rep…

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Housing for homeless alcoholics wins conditional approval
A controversial project to house alcoholics living on Anchorage streets won conditional approval from the Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday.

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Hundreds show up for housing hearing
A big crowd showed up this evening at the Loussac Library as the debate over Anchorage’s first big housing program serving homeless alcoholics moves to a new forum: the city Planning and Zoning Commission.

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Rumors of transitional housing cause angst in St. Pete Beach
It’s true that ex-addicts could move into old St. Pete Beach motels.

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Act Now to Push for a Federal Housing Act (in Opinion)
Why passing Bill C-304 will help a lot people who aren’t homeless, too.

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Funds available for homeless, but housing difficult to find
Tri-City agencies that help the homeless are experiencing a quandary — they have money to get peopl

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Funding approved for South Knoxville homeless housing project
City council voted Tuesday night to fund a controversial homeless housing proposal in South Knoxville by a narrow margin, only 5-4.

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Funding for South Knoxville homeless housing approved
Tuesday night Knoxville city council voted to fund a controversial homeless housing proposal by a narrow margin, only five to four.

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Delta Zeta stripped of charter, housing
Virginia Tech’s chapter of Delta Zeta is no longer recognized as a student organization by the university and will lose its housing in Oak Lane at the end of the school year.

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Police: Man started 2 Portsmouth Housing Authority fires
PORTSMOUTH – A man charged with starting a December fire in a public housing building by smoking while intoxicated…

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Housing director seeks eviction for man accused of starting fire
PORTSMOUTH — A man charged with starting a December fire in a public housing building by smoking while intoxicated started a fire in the same building ten months earlier and has a history of other infractions, according to the Portsmouth Housing…

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In face of opposition, application withdrawn for affordable housing plan
The nonprofit organization Homes with Hope (previously known as the Interfaith Housing Association ) has withdrawn controversial zoning applications that could have paved the way for 12 units of affordable supportive housing at the Linxweiler property at 655 Post Road E.

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MassHousing awards funding for affordable sober housing
MassHousing has approved $150,000 in funding to help create 11 new units of affordable sober housing for women with children in New Bedford.

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Man seeks housing for Latino men living in Md. woods
Valentin Del Cid lived and died in the cold woods of Rockville’s Aspen Hill Park. He was drinking one night a year ago when he slipped on a patch of ice, hit his head hard and froze to death overnight.

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