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Position:
Secretary - Housing and Urban Development
The secretary is the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development which works to provide a decent, safe, and sanitary home and a suitable living environment for every American. The department attempts to create opportunities for home ownership using assistance for low-income persons. It also develops programs to help the homeless. It enforces the nations housing laws while at the same time, helping local communities meet their development needs and spurring economic growth in distressed neighborhoods.
Type of Appointment/Position: Presidential with Senate confirmation
Nominee's Background:
Roxanne Qualls was elected mayor of Cincinatti and served three terms until termed out in 1999. One of her major intiatives as mayor targeted slum landlords, illegal dumping, and trash; the program was recognized by the U.S. Conference of Mayors¹ Best Practices guide. She worked to increase home ownership, and she focused recreation development on Cincinnati¹s riverfront. She previously worked in public-interest jobs including Ohio Citizen Action, Women Helping Women, and the Northern Kentucky Rape Crisis Center. She was a fellow at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University.
Now she is at Northern Kentucky University as Director of Public Leadership Initiatives
(from http://www.cnu.org/aboutcnu/board_member_rqualls.cfm)
Nominating Speech:
Nominated by: Keith Ammann
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Progressive Criteria:
The Department of Housing and Urban Development will:
Acknowledge that every citizen deserves adequate, safe, life-enhancing housing, and work to support this right;
Promote neighborhood preservation and renewal, rather than population removal and gentrification;
Promote ecological energy-saving construction;
Look at housing as part of a larger picture that involves the need for opportunities for well-remunerated, rewarding work near at hand, especially for low-income areas.
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Comments so far:
In the News
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Text and drive? Not in Cincinnati
Texting or e-mailing while driving in Cincinnati soon will mean a $100 fine, despite police testimony that there hasn't been a big problem with accidents blamed on those practices.
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Council says no to $12K for event planner
Cincinnati City Council members talked a relative long time Tuesday about a relatively small-money item: $12,000 to hire an event planner to help the city attract more minority- and women-owned businesses.
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New shelter could cost $3 million
The decision to switch agencies that provide emergency housing for homeless women could end up with a $3 million price tag - which some are questioning in these economic hard times.
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Home for women to get $12M makeover
The Anna Louise Inn, the city's largest residence for homeless women, will undergo a $12 million renovation next summer.
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City explores homeless housing options
Vice-Mayor Qualls, Executive Director of Continuum Care, and other city leaders travel to Columbus to tour permanent homeless housing apartments.
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Streetcar route much coveted
As a decision nears on the best streetcar route from Downtown to Uptown, communities are competing to be the pick. To the winner will go the promise of enhanced property values and the potential for new retail, housing and office space.
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Pension vote to doom water district?
In a major setback for a proposed Greater Cincinnati regional water district, an Ohio pension board Wednesday demanded that all of the district's employees join the state retirement system, a move that would pull hundreds of workers out of Cincinnati's troubled pension plan.
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Brian Trotta and the Drop Inn Center
With temperatures in the 90s, even sitting in a car with the windows rolled down and the air conditioning turned off is a sweaty proposition. So whether Cincinnati Police Officer Brian Trotta last week had an alleged "family medical emergency" or not, it would've taken just a few minutes to leave his police dog with a colleague or a few seconds to at least roll down the windows. Trotta did ...
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City, regional planning group argue over seeking federal money
At the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments meeting Thursday, Cincinnati City Councilwoman Roxanne Qualls questioned why the group wasn't asking for the total allowable amount of $5 million for a federal housing grant, instead of $2.5 million the group was planning to ask for.
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City needs fewer 'Huh?' moments, more leadership
Pardon us for asking what's become an excruciatingly obvious question: Just what the heck is going on at Cincinnati City Hall?
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