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- 05/09/2008
Artvoice Exposes Buffalo's Gross Misuse of HUD Money
This past Thursday, Buffalo's very own alt-newsweekly Artvoice came out with an expose on the City's gross misappropriation of HUD dollars.
Link to the original.
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updates
- 04/30/2008
Water is a Right!
Tuesday afternoon at 4pm, 9 PUSH members and staff headed down to City Hall to attend a public hearing on the contract renewal of American Water Systems.
PUSH was determined to make it clear that the people of Buffalo have the...
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in_the_news
- 04/28/2008
Buffalo News Features Dolores Powell: PUSH Member
It's always nice to see a PUSH member getting it done. Big ups to Dolores! Straight from the Buff News (the original is
here
):
West Side mother is a one-woman...
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updates
- 04/21/2008
PUSH Annual Meeting!
PUSH rocked its second annual meeting this past Saturday @ 271 Grant St. With 75 people in attendance, food, great music courtesy of Ismail and Tom, and of course, PUSH members, the meeting-turned-party was a huge success. PUSH would like to thank everyone...
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housing
- 04/15/2008
Who Made 129 Chenango Happen?
129 Chenango was donated in early 2007 by the estate of Ann McQuestions, to help PUSH fulfill the mission to decrease the rate of housing abandonment by reclaiming empty houses and redeveloping them for occupancy of low-income residents.
The...
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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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04/03/2008
PUSH Film Series: Waging a Living
271 Grant Street
PUSH Film Series
"Waging a Living"
Thursday, April 3rd
5PM
271 Grant Street
FROM PBS's POV website:
Roger...
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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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05/01/2008
PUSH Film Series
271 Grant St.
The PUSH Film Series returns! May 1st, 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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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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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
Please Note: Thanks to David Torke of http://fixbuffalo.blogspot.com for the photo.
Activists use 'tickets' to accuse Brown of neglecting abandoned city homes
Mayor...
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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
Donna M. Brown worked for the Kensington-Bailey Neighborhood Services group earlier this decade, and there she saw the dire poverty that envelops much of the city.
"You live,...
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The Buffalo News, N.Y.
- By Brian Meyer - 02/07/2008
Few changes made in block grant plan
Few changes made in block grant plan
The Common Council made only minor changes in Mayor Byron W. Brown’s plan for spending anti-poverty funds, averting the kind of nasty block...
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Democrat and Chronicle:
- Dan Osburn - 01/29/2008
Activists lobby for Spitzer's housing aid
ALBANY — Activists called on the Legislature Monday to combat urban decay and homelessness by approving Gov. Eliot Spitzer's proposed $400 million budget allocation for housing aid to Rochester and other...
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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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