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- 06/01/2009
Green Jobs, Green Housing Town Hall Meeting
On Thursday May 28th PUSH members, staff and community residents gathered together at the old library on Grant St. to participate in a “town hall” style meeting to get local elected officials and their representatives to commit to our Green...
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updates
- 05/26/2009
PUSH Lauches 19th St. Refugee & Community Garden
On Saturday, May 23rd at 10 AM at 92 19th Street, PUSH Buffalo celebrated the advent of Buffalo’s first and only community garden geared toward refugee families by hosting a ‘Gardener’s Breakfast”. Participating gardeners were...
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updates
- 05/20/2009
PUSH Goes to Speak Race and Reconciliation Conference; See Angela Davis!
On Tuesday, PUSH members and staff attended Buffalo's 6th Annual Race and Reconciliation Conference. With this year's conference title of,“Poverty and Racism: Providing the Tools Needed to Address Consequences and Implement Solutions," PUSH was...
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updates
- 05/18/2009
Americorps & PUSH Tackle West Side Cleanup
This past Friday, nearly 50 Americorps servicemembers as well as PUSH members and staff gathered at the MAP garden to participate in an all-day cleanup/work project on PUSH's vacant lots and properties.
Fences were stained, lots...
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updates
- 05/06/2009
Open Mic!
On Thursday, April 16th, PUSH hosted an open mic at the Butler-Mitchell Boys and Girls Club on Massachusetts Avenue. About 20 neighborhood young people showed up and, with backing music from Ismail and Tom, songs were sung, poetry was spoken, and there...
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campaigns
- 04/20/2009
Annual Meeting Eats Sandwich of Power!
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updates
- 04/16/2009
Green Jobs, Green Housing Campaign Blasts Off!
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updates
- 04/13/2009
Movement Moves It @ Soundlab!
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updates
- 04/09/2009
We're working the phones for our Campaign Launch!
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updates
- 04/03/2009
PUSHing People Power Film Series Rocks
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updates
- 03/29/2009
PUSH and VOICE Team Up to Fight for WIC
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updates
- 03/24/2009
PUSH Rocks NPA 2009!
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campaigns
- 03/20/2009
Healthy Neighborhood Planning Meeting!
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housing
- 03/11/2009
Americorps and PUSH Clean Up 10 Winter St.!
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policy
- 03/06/2009
PUSH Member Speaks out for Fair Share Tax Reform
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campaigns
- 03/02/2009
Rally for Fair Share Tax Reform!
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updates
- 02/26/2009
New T-Shirts!
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policy
- 02/23/2009
PUSH Rocks Boston!
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policy
- 02/13/2009
CEJ Brings UE Chicago Workers to Buffalo!
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media
- 02/10/2009
LittleSis.Org
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policy
- 02/06/2009
PPG Announces Community Agenda
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campaigns
- 02/04/2009
5 Year Strategic Plan Presented at PUSH Member Meeting
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campaigns
- 02/02/2009
PUSH is Fighting to Help 'Save the American Dream'!
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media
- 01/26/2009
PUSH has a Flickr Site!
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housing
- 01/21/2009
ReUse and PUSH Team Up on MLK Day!
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media
- 01/08/2009
PUSHing People Power! a monthly film series by PUSH Buffalo
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updates
- 01/05/2009
Looking Back on 2008: A PUSH Retrospective
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updates
- 12/05/2008
PUSH Goes to D.C. to Realize the Promise
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media
- 11/24/2008
Free Screening of PUSH Documentary!
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campaigns
- 11/17/2008
What does a former organizer in the Whitehouse mean to PUSH?
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updates
- 11/10/2008
PUSH Plants with Re-Tree WNY!
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housing
- 11/06/2008
PUSH Starts Cleanup of 397 & 398 Massachusetts
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updates
- 10/28/2008
Help With PUSH's Community Garden!
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campaigns
- 10/14/2008
PUSH Rallies & Celebrates; Kicks Off Green Jobs, Green Housing Campaign!
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campaigns
- 10/14/2008
VICTORY!: Mayor Brown commits to PUSH's Anti-Poverty Platform!
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campaigns
- 09/05/2008
Green Jobs, Green Housing!
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updates
- 09/04/2008
PUSH's Citizen Citations are Working!
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updates
- 08/27/2008
PUSH Doesn't Do It Alone
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campaigns
- 07/30/2008
Wake Up and Smell It Buffalo, Community Control of Resources!
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updates
- 07/29/2008
Bringing Buffalo Back a Huge Success!
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updates
- 07/14/2008
SECOND ANNUAL PUSH BUFFALO PARTY IN NYC!
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campaigns
- 07/07/2008
We Can't, Won't and Don't Stop: PUSH's Jobs and Housing Campaign Rolls Along
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updates
- 06/25/2008
PUSH Staffer Facilitates Immigrant and Refugee Forum
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updates
- 06/18/2008
PUSH Featured in
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campaigns
- 06/11/2008
PUSH to City: Our Neighborhoods Won't Wait!
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campaigns
- 05/27/2008
PUSH Packs the House
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updates
- 05/22/2008
PUSH Welcomes New Board Members
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updates
- 05/20/2008
PUSH joins forces with the New York State Thruway Alliance
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updates
- 05/09/2008
Artvoice Exposes Buffalo's Gross Misuse of HUD Money
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updates
- 04/30/2008
Water is a Right!
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in_the_news
- 04/28/2008
Buffalo News Features Dolores Powell: PUSH Member
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updates
- 04/21/2008
PUSH Annual Meeting!
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housing
- 04/15/2008
Who Made 129 Chenango Happen?
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updates
- 04/15/2008
PUSH Staff Power-Up
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updates
- 04/10/2008
New York State has the Greatest Disparity of Wealth in the Nation- PUSH has a solution!
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housing
- 04/07/2008
Say Word... We did it again!: 129 Chenango Hits the Ground Running
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campaigns
- 03/30/2008
Busy Weekend at PUSH
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campaigns
- 03/26/2008
Citizen Citation Sign Expansion
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updates
- 03/21/2008
New PUSH Shirts!
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campaigns
- 03/19/2008
Rep. Brian Higgins Meets with PUSH
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campaigns
- 03/10/2008
Citizens' Citation!
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campaigns
- 02/07/2008
They Heard Us!
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updates
- 01/23/2008
1/19/08 Member Meeting
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campaigns
- 01/20/2008
Block by Block!
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updates
- 01/20/2008
Burma Vigil Review
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housing
- 01/20/2008
PUSH Project: 129 Chenango Street
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06/18/2009
Great Lakes Metros Conference
Bulger Building, Buffalo State College
PUSH is helping to host a Great Lakes Metros Conference!
Hello Friends,
Now is a time of intense reevaluation and immense opportunity for those who strive...
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06/04/2009
Mapantsula
271 Grant St.
Come check on the PUSH Film Series this Thursday, June 4th, 271 Grant St. at 5:30p.m. as we're showing the South African film "Mapantsula"!
Mapantsula tells the story of Panic,...
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05/28/2009
Town Hall Meeting!
271 Grant St.
Green Jobs, Green Housing Town Hall Meeting!
Come help us hold our politicians accountable. Remember, for us, going green isn't just a lifestyle, it's about survival!
Thursday,...
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05/23/2009
Garden Launch!
271 Grant St.
Please join us this Saturday, Saturday, May 23rd at 10a.m. as PUSH Buffalo is celebrating the advent of Buffalo’s first refugee & community garden by hosting a ‘Gardener’s Breakfast’...
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05/15/2009
Volunteer Day & BBQ!
398 Massachusetts Avenue
PUSH Volunteer Day w/ WNY Americorps, 9:30 AM, meet at 389 Massachusetts Avenue. Community BBQ on Massachusetts Ave. in front of the MAP garden at 3 PM.
Come on out and help...
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05/07/2009
Movie Night!
271 Grant St.
PUSH Film Series
"Flow"
Thursday, May 7th
5:30 PM
271 Grant Street
Free of Charge; Donations Welcome. Come Join us...
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05/02/2009
Healthy Neighborhoods!
307 Massachusetts
On May 2nd @ 3p.m. at the Butler-Mitchell Boys and Girls Club (307 Massachusetts Avenue) PUSH Buffalo will be hosting the SECOND community planning session. We got everyone's input and we're going to present...
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04/25/2009
Clean Up with PUSH!
271 Grant St.
On Saturday April 25th at 9a.m., 20 students from Buff State are joining forces with PUSH to help us clean up a bunch of our vacant lots that we just purchased. We'd like to extend the invitation to everyone...
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04/23/2009
PUSH Open Mic!
370 Mass. Ave
On Thursday April 23rd, PUSH Buffalo and the Butler-Mitchell Boys and Girls Club will be co-hosting an open mic for folks 18 and under. It's going to be at 370 Mass. Ave and run from 7-9 p.m. Whether it's...
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04/17/2009
Breakfast with Mike Lux
271 Grant St.
Buffalo's progressive community invites you to...
Breakfast with political activist & author Mike Lux
Friday, April 17, 2009 * 8-9:30am
271...
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04/16/2009
Green Jobs, Green Homes Campaign Launch!
354 Massachusetts Avenue
Come help PUSH kick off our Green Jobs, Green Homes...
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04/11/2009
Movement Party 3
Soundlab
Wondering what to do this Saturday night? Tired of...
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04/10/2009
Baby Steps' 10th!
Broadway Joe's
The Baby Steps 10 Year Anniversary Show
Friday...
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04/03/2009
Ismail & Co. Show!
Sweet_ness7
Come check out PUSH member Ismail's 3rd appearance...
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04/02/2009
PUSH Film Series
271 Grant St.
5:30p.m.
271 Grant St.
Free...
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03/21/2009
PUSH Goes to NPA
Washington D.C.
PUSH is heading off to Washington D.C. this weekend...
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02/18/2009
PUSH Greets the Gov.
TBA
PUSH is going to Governor Paterson's Town Hall Meeting...
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01/30/2009
Ismail, PUSH Member, Plays Sweetness 7 Cafe!
Sweetness 7 Cafe
This Friday at the Sweetness 7 Cafe at the corner of...
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01/19/2009
PUSH and ReUse Team Up to Board Up Houses!
397 Massachusetts
From Caesandra at Buffalo ReUse:
Some...
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01/15/2009
PUSH Film Series Returns!
271 Grant St.
PUSH Film Series
"Frame-Up:...
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11/01/2008
PUSH Theater Night!
Ujima Theater
On November first, PUSH is sponsoring a theater night...
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10/08/2008
RALLY FOR JOBS AND HOUSING!
Lafayette Square
PUSH RALLY FOR JOBS AND HOUSING!
When:...
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07/26/2008
Second Annual PUSH Buffalo Party in NYC
Times Square
"BRINGING BUFFALO BACK"
PUSH'S Second Annual...
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07/13/2008
Garage Sale!
456 Massachusetts Ave
Come join PUSH Board Member Augustine Gilchrist as...
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06/19/2008
Immigrant and Refugee Forum
Cornell University ILR, 237 Main Street, Suite 1200
Join PUSH and the Partnership for the Public Good in...
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06/10/2008
Rehab Action
288 Hudson
PUSH is gearing up for an action!
When:...
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06/05/2008
PUSH Film Series
271 Grant St.
The PUSH Film Series returns! June 5th, 271 Grant St....
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05/24/2008
PUSH Member Meeting
271 Grant St. @ 3pm!
PUSH member meeting Saturday, May 24th at 3pm at 271...
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05/03/2008
Citizen Citation Action 4
271 Grant St.
This Saturday, May 3rd, PUSH needs help putting up...
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04/05/2008
Ribbon Cutting at 129 Chenango
129 Chenango Street
Saturday, April 5th
12 noon
129...
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04/04/2008
Babysteps 9th Anniversary
@ Broadway Joe's 3051 Main St.
Very Special Mystery Guest + Emcee Showcase
Djs:...
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The Buffalo News
- Maki Becker - 04/26/2009
Community garden projects take root in Buffalo Urban gardens are no longer a rare breed
By Maki Becker
NEWS STAFF REPORTER
Associated Press
First lady Michelle Obama has won praise from urban agriculture advocates for starting a kitchen...
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The Buffalo News
- Maki Becker - 04/25/2009
Community garden projects take root in Buffalo
Planting has just started on a tree farm in a vacant lot on Buffalo’s West Side.
A community garden where neighbors can grow their own vegetables and children can learn about...
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The Buffalo News
- Deidre Williams - 04/16/2009
Protest targets home heating costs
Fed-up residents threw money out the window of a Massachusetts Avenue house Thursday to symbolize inefficient insulation of West Side homes and the abnormally high cost of heating them every winter.
The...
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The Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 03/30/2009
Protesters decry move to end WIC program Groups march, sing at county offices
Several recipients of a federal nutrition program threatened with a county cutoff in the fall were among a boisterous contingent of protesters Friday asking County Executive Chris Collins to reverse his...
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The Hill
- Reid Wilson - 03/25/2009
Protesters force bankers group into lockdown
A group of protesters upset with the American Bankers Association (ABA) for lobbying against a top priority managed to cause a lockdown of the high-powered organization's Connecticut Avenue offices Monday.
The...
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The Buffalo News
- Harold McNeil - 03/06/2009
Tax equity is focus of rally as speakers say the wealthy need to pay fair share
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Buffalo Rising
- Queenseyes - 02/09/2009
Reinvestment Equals Return
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Artvoice
- Geoff Kelly - 02/05/2009
Tonight at PUSH: Passin’ It On
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The Buffalo News
- Brian Meyer - 01/30/2009
Brown, in State of the City, proclaims ‘great progress’
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The Buffalo News
- Mark Sommers - 01/20/2009
King legacy translates into serving others
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Buffalo Rising
- WC Perspective - 12/24/2008
West Side Rising
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The Buffalo News
- Colin Dabkowski - 11/28/2008
Local Focus
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Buffalo Rising
- West Coast Perspective - 11/10/2008
Work Starts on 19th Street Refugee Garden
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The Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 10/27/2008
Growing up in a world without fathers
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The Buffalo News
- Brian Meyer - 10/09/2008
City forms partnership for rehab plan
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The Buffalo News
- Brian Meyer - 10/08/2008
Mayor Brown pledges to rehab 500 vacant units in 5 years
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Artvoice
- Geoff Kelly - 10/06/2008
Rally for Jobs and Housing NOW
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The Buffalo News
- Phil Fairbanks - 09/26/2008
Can Buffalo lead the way in solving nation's vacant housing problem? Some propose city as living laboratory
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The Buffalo News
- Phil Fairbanks - 09/24/2008
Buffalo's 19th St. a model for urban renewal
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The Buffalo News
- Tom Buckham - 07/23/2008
Big Apple gets to taste Buffalo-lb-
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Buffalo News
- Brian Meyer - 07/23/2008
‘Blight tours’ of Buffalo will serve up a reality ride
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Buffalo News
- Phil Fairbanks - 07/23/2008
Buffalo wants to tear down its abandoned homes
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The Buffalo News
- Phil Fairbanks - 07/07/2008
Neglected homes and vacant lots leave Buffalo residents angry
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The Buffalo News
- Staff - 06/18/2008
Helping new immigrants is focus of discussion
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The Buffalo News
- Natalie Morera - 06/12/2008
Couple’s struggle to acquire house highlights problems in city
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Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 06/12/2008
City will get $2 million to renovate 74 homes
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WIVB Channel 4
- - 03/10/2008
Community Group Holding City Leaders Accountable for Abandoned Properties
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The Buffalo News
- Phil Fairbanks - 03/10/2008
Activists use 'tickets' to accuse Brown of neglecting abandoned city homes
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Buffalo News
- Stephen T. Watson - 03/01/2008
The new Brown at City Hall ; Anti-poverty plan tops priority list for deputy mayor
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The Buffalo News, N.Y.
- By Brian Meyer - 02/07/2008
Few changes made in block grant plan
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Democrat and Chronicle:
- Dan Osburn - 01/29/2008
Activists lobby for Spitzer's housing aid
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Wall Street Journal
- Jake Halpern - 12/01/2007
Cross Country: Buffalo's Field of Dreams
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The Buffalo News
- By Harold McNeil NEWS STAFF REPORTER - 11/10/2007
Project tackles housing woes block at a time
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Buffalo News
- Jonathan Epstein - 11/07/2007
Coalition pushes giving instead of getting ; Activist groups urge banks to forfeit bonuses to create homeowner help fund
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Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 10/28/2007
Growing up in a world without fathers Series: Children of Poverty (part one of three)
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The Buffalo News
- Brian Meyer - 10/14/2007
Poverty forum seeks doable remedies
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Artvoice
- Peter Koch - 10/04/2007
So Many, We Can't Give Them Away
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Artvoice
- Sam Magavern - 09/27/2007
Let's Take the High Road
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The Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 09/26/2007
Strategy offered to address blight: BUFFALO
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The New York Times
- KEN BELSON - 09/13/2007
Vacant Houses, Scourge of a Beaten-Down Buffalo
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The Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 09/11/2007
State action will help fund needed demolitions
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Artvoice
- Peter Koch - 07/19/2007
Building Community, One Co-op at a Time
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Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 07/05/2007
Co-op dwellers pile up nest eggs [Corrected 07/06/07] ; Housing program provides incentives to accumulate funds for buying homes
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Buffalo News
- Dan Herbeck - 05/29/2007
Manhattan party designed to draw ex-Buffalonians
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Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 02/28/2007
Derelict properties in limbo: Residents, officials wonder what will become of decaying houses controlled by state agency but adversely impacting neighborhoods
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Buffalo News
- - 02/21/2007
Community input urged on handling foreclosures
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The Buffalo News, N.Y.
- Mark Sommer - 12/09/2006
Housing activists tell Pataki and Brown to 'lump it' in protest
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Artvoice
- Geoff Kelly - 11/16/2006
Sleeper Cell
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Artvoice
- Geoff Kelly - 09/28/2006
Pataki Fiddles, Buffalo Burns
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Buffalo News
- Diedre Williams - 09/24/2006
Meeting focuses on housing issues, preservation
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Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 08/09/2006
The state is providing $2 million to help support affordable homeownership in the city.
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Artvoice
- Michael Colucci - 07/20/2006
Shaming the Governor
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Artvoice
- Geoff Kelly - 03/23/2006
Here Comes the Neighborhood
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