Last summer, Indianapolis officials launched Streets to Home Indy, a city-led campaign to house up to 350 people who lacked shelter and to close all the city's homeless camps in an organized way.
As of March 3, the city is more than a third of the way there.
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Gov. Braun signs bill that will dissolve hundreds of townships, excluding Marion County township offices.
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Is your house too cold? Low-income residents can lower their monthly utility bills through Citizen Energy Group’s House to Home program.
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AES, the parent company of AES Indiana, announced on Monday that it has agreed to be purchased in a $33 billion deal by a group of large domestic and foreign investors — and could go private as soon as this year. The news prompted alarm from some...
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When hateful leaflets litter your community, Southern Poverty Law Center has ways you can help bring attention to the issue while supporting communities/individuals being targeted.
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The answer is a sweeping housing measure aimed at increasing residential development statewide and reducing housing costs — but one that stops short of fully stripping zoning authority from cities like Fishers.
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Some of the issues addressed were schools in Indianapolis, Marion County judges and road funding for the city.
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Our friends at the Indiana Justice Project will have an Eviction Sealing Clinic on March 21. Please share in your networks!
“It’s going to create overcrowdedness in the jails, which means what? They’re going to go to the (local) council and say, ‘Give us more money to build more jails,'” said Sen. Lonnie Randolph, D-East Chicago.
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"we were the lowest performing state amongst our peers in wages and income...while cost of living tends to be low in Indiana, this does not offset the fact that Hoosiers consistently earn less & have less purchasing power than citizens in our peer states."
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FHCCI Statement on HB 1193 (Civil Rights Commission): The Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI) provides this background and comments regarding changes proposed in HB 1193 (Civil Rights Commission). Read the full statement here: www.fhcci.org/wp-content/u...
The Vanderburgh County Sheriff’s Office says it stands with other Indiana sheriff’s offices in opposing Senate Bill 285.
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"It'll be a long process. It's not going to happen overnight," Olson said. But the bill is "a recognition that what we've been doing all these years isn't working, and now we're going to go in a different direction."
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“I understand what the frustrations are, but us in the county jail becoming a homeless shelter — a quasi-homeless shelter — is not the answer, because it’s an added expense to our taxpayers,” Porter County Sheriff Jeff Balon said.
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The campus, located at 2186 N. Sherman Drive, is listed for $3.5 million and includes about eight acres of land. The listing also includes nine smaller parcels of land near the campus, all of which are owned by Martin University according to MapIndy.
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Join Indiana Legal Services and Richmond Housing & Health Rights Coalition for the Indy Tenant Workshop!
Details:
📅 3/10
⏰ 1pm ET
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Leaders and advocates are encouraged to attend to be able to educate their neighbors.
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Do you live on the Far Eastside? Fill out the survey below before March 15 to share your ideas with the Far Eastside Community Council about what would make the neighborhood better.
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If your landlord files an eviction against you in Indianapolis, you’re far from alone. That happens about 2,000 times every month.
Below, you’ll find information about how the eviction process works, how to prepare for court and what help is available to you.
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They found that decades of stress — childhood adversity, trauma, discrimination and economic hardship — were associated with higher levels of inflammation later in life, which correlated with earlier death.
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But through the organization’s Indianapolis Neighborhood Development Initiative, organizations can use the money to pay for staff and other expenses. The goal is to help bring stability to the developers so they can continue providing affordable housing.
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The Legend at Speedway Apartment Complex — KPM Property Management — was given 48 hours to fix the problem. Per the Town, KPM failed to correct the issue and was subsequently fined $2,000. Additional failures to remedy the problem will result in the issuance of more fines.
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"What we observed...was pretty disheartening,” said Haller. “There were clearly people in the building who weren’t supposed to be there, harassing tenants. We actually found that many of the trespassers were actually using the stairwells as bathrooms."
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