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- 09/05/2008
Green Jobs, Green Housing!
Green is the color that makes the world go round. We've heard that saying for years. Now, we have a chance to make the Green Economy work for everyone - especially for hard working across cities like Buffalo. We all know what it's like to pay to heat...
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updates
- 09/04/2008
PUSH's Citizen Citations are Working!
During a check-in this morning on all of our "violation" signs that we had posted a few months back, we discovered something amazing- Fifteen of the cited, City-owned abandoned properties had been demolished and 13 of those properties had orange "violation"...
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updates
- 08/27/2008
PUSH Doesn't Do It Alone
Thankfully, no non-profit is an island and here at PUSH, we're surrounded by dynamic and exciting organizations who share our commitment to social justice. Below is a list and some links to the organizations we do coalition work with:
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campaigns
- 07/30/2008
Wake Up and Smell It Buffalo, Community Control of Resources!
On Tuesday, July 29th, the Common Council’s Community Development Committee hosted a public hearing for residents could express their thoughts on how best to spend what may very well be the last round of Restore New York funds from the state -...
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updates
- 07/29/2008
Bringing Buffalo Back a Huge Success!
This past Saturday, PUSH Buffalo once again returned to Manhattan's Times Square for the second annual celebration of Buffalo culture in NYC. This year's event drew together Buffalo lovers for a night of the Queen City's finest food and drink.
Over...
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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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04/04/2008
Babysteps 9th Anniversary
@ Broadway Joe's 3051 Main St.
Very Special Mystery Guest + Emcee Showcase
Djs: Tommee, LoPro, Daringer, Rich The Snitch
Hosts: Loki, Sick, Mysterious L
Courtesy Food (limited supply), Kitchen Open,...
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04/05/2008
Ribbon Cutting at 129 Chenango
129 Chenango Street
Saturday, April 5th
12 noon
129 Chenango Street
Join PUSH members and our community-based construction crew as we celebrate the completion of a major renovation...
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04/19/2008
PUSH Annual Meeting
271 Grant St.
PUSH Annual Meeting!
Join community residents and PUSH members as we celebrate this year's achievements and plan for the future.
Saturday, April 19th
3...
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05/03/2008
Citizen Citation Action 4
271 Grant St.
This Saturday, May 3rd, PUSH needs help putting up "Violation" signs on city-owned abandoned houses across the West Side. The signs are galvanizing West Side neighbors to echo PUSH's call for more public...
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05/24/2008
PUSH Member Meeting
271 Grant St. @ 3pm!
PUSH member meeting Saturday, May 24th at 3pm at 271 Grant St. Come one, come all!...
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06/05/2008
PUSH Film Series
271 Grant St.
The PUSH Film Series returns! June 5th, 271 Grant St. @ 5pm. We will be showing, "Channels: Stories from the Niagara Frontier 2007" a series of short documentaries made about local organizations by local...
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06/10/2008
Rehab Action
288 Hudson
PUSH is gearing up for an action!
When: June 10th (Next Tuesday), in front of 288 Hudson @ 4p.m.
Why?: It's a City-owned property in great shape with a...
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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 a discussion to learn more about immigrant and refugee integration in Western NY as a panel of experts shares their insights regarding the prospects...
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07/13/2008
Garage Sale!
456 Massachusetts Ave
Come join PUSH Board Member Augustine Gilchrist as she hosts a garage sale as a fundraiser to benefit those in Burma victimized by the cyclone. It's taking place July 13th at 456 Mass. Ave at 9:30a.m....
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07/26/2008
Second Annual PUSH Buffalo Party in NYC
Times Square
"BRINGING BUFFALO BACK"
PUSH'S Second Annual Party in NYC to Benefit Buffalo's Neighborhoods
PUSH Buffalo returns to Manhattan's Times Square on Saturday July 26th...
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08/14/2008
PUSH Film Series: Style Wars
271 Grant Street
PUSH Film Series
"Style Wars"
Thursday,...
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09/20/2008
PUSH Member Meeting
271 Grant St.
Come join us at our next member meeting, 9/20/08, 271...
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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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Buffalo News
- Brian Meyer - 07/23/2008
‘Blight tours’ of Buffalo will serve up a reality ride
Call it Buffalo’s Bus Tour of Blight. City officials, smarting from criticism that their building demolition effort is doomed to failure because it lacks vision, will soon send invitations to local...
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Buffalo News
- Phil Fairbanks - 07/23/2008
Buffalo wants to tear down its abandoned homes
Peter Roetzer stumbled across the building at 454 Rhode Island St. during a tour of West Side homes last year. What some saw as a run-down, vacant house — a blight on the neighborhood — Roetzer...
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The Buffalo News
- Natalie Morera - 06/12/2008
Couple’s struggle to acquire house highlights problems in city
Link to the original: http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/367368.html
After searching for a few years, Amanda Mulraine and her boyfriend, Steven Connors, have...
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Buffalo News
- Mark Sommer - 06/12/2008
City will get $2 million to renovate 74 homes
link to the original: http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/buffaloerie/story/368343.html
Gov. David A. Paterson has announced that Buffalo will receive $2 million...
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WIVB Channel 4
- - 03/10/2008
Community Group Holding City Leaders Accountable for Abandoned Properties
video: http://www.wivb.com/Global/story.asp?s=7977650
(Buffalo, NY, March 6, 2008) - - A community group says its holding city leaders accountable for the hundreds of abandoned...
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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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