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MCHA residents filled three boxes with items for the Military Support Group in Carlinville during the February resident meeting. The donations included quite a variety - playing cards, movies,...
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March 21, 2008 - MCHA office will be closed for Law Order Day March 25, 2008 - Resident trip to Lincoln Museum The Authority has changed...
Florida Real Estate Defies Reports Of Its Demise
It's better to jam wax in your ears than to listen to every hyped-up, overreported bit of conventional economic wisdom. Brace yourself for $200-per-barrel oil. Buy gold at $1,000 per ounce. Bury your nest egg before the next Great Depression.
N. Philadelphia Residents Deliver Fiery Complaints Over Zoned Housing
Nearly 250 North Philadelphia residents crowded into the sweltering Dunbar School auditorium last night. It was hot, and they made sure city and state officials felt it. They were there to complain about investors who buy homes in areas zoned for single-family housing and convert them for Temple students. The air conditioning wasn't working, the microphones weren't working, but amid angry ...
Smart Growth Measure Will Combat Emissions
TWO YEARS AGO, California made a precedent-setting commitment to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That's when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed landmark legislation aimed at cutting the emissions 25 percent by 2020.
Fair Housing Hearing Board's Tenants' Rights Handbook Out Sept. 9
The city of Raleigh issued the following news release: The City of Raleigh Fair Housing Hearing Board is publishing a handbook on tenants' rights. The board is having a press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 9 to formally announce the handbook, entitled "Tenants' Rights and Obligations." The press conference begins at 10 a.m. in Room 114 (1st Floor Programming Room) of the Cameron ...
55-And-Up Homeowners Granted Room To Expand In Pennsylvania Community
Three months ago, an overflow crowd of residents from an East Hempfield community asked their township for some help. On Wednesday night, an overflow crowd of most of the same people got that help.
Homeless Need Lawyers, Too
Corporate lawyers Henry Levi and Meghan Outz aren't accustomed to meeting their clients in a garage. They're not used to working for free, either. Conversely, the men and women seeking aid through the Metro Atlanta Task Force for the Homeless tend to be suspicious of attorneys.
California Cities Urge State to Not Take Away Funds
Sep. 3, 2008 ( delivered by Newstex) ? As the state tries to figure out this year's budget (already two months in), cities are concerned about legislators patching the state's red ink with funding that usually goes towards city services such as public safety and redevelopment funds. Addressing that could-be problem, the state's nine largest cities are sending letters to Gov.
Agreement Helps Syracuse Keep Buildings Out of Slumlords' Hands
After months of negotiations with Syracuse officials, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has agreed to keep nine Syracuse apartment buildings out of the hands of private developers. Instead, HUD will auction the properties only to nonprofit housing corporations with a specialty in preserving affordable housing. The agency will auction the buildings as one package Dec. 3 at the ...
Land Swap With Developer Means Affordable Housing
The Orinda City Council green-lighted a land swap agreement this week that will put another major residential development project in motion. The agreement authorizes an exchange of properties between the Pulte Home Corporation, the Orinda Union School District and the city of Orinda.
Giving Veterans a Fighting Chance
It's been three decades since Greg Duchsherer returned home from the Vietnam War, but lately he's been seeing something familiar in the faces of soldiers coming back from the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. "When they come home, they're still looking at the ground, jumping at every pothole," said Duchsherer, a Marine Corps veteran who lives in West Covina. " ...
Housing Proposal Faces Size Questions
Sep. 3?A plan to turn a hunk of Alma Street into housing for the elderly and the working poor has city officials enthusiastic. Now the question is how the 101-unit complex will fit into the surrounding neighborhood. One of the larger low-income housing developments in the city, the five-story project would span one full side of Alma's 800 block, from Homer Avenue to Channing Avenue. The ...
30-Year Loan Rates Fall to 6-Week Low
Rates on 30-year mortgages fell for the second straight week, declining to the lowest level in more than a month. Freddie Mac, the mortgage company, reported Thursday that 30- year, fixed-rate mortgages dropped to 6.40 percent last week, down from 6.47 percent the previous week. The new rate was the lowest since the week of July 17 when 30-year mortgages stood at 6.26 percent.
Florida Disaster Recovery Gains Speed
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Federal Emergency Management Agency issued the following press release: State and federal recovery programs are helping Floridians in need of disaster assistance after Tropical Storm Fay saturated large portions of the state for 11 days in late August. Residents with disaster-related loss or damage in Brevard, Duval, Hendry, Lee, Leon, Okeechobee, ...
Halfway House Gets Partial Victory
STRATFORD ? About 15 men at an East Broadway halfway house will be able to resume daily 12-step meetings in a new barn on the property. That's the upshot of a decision by the Board of Zoning Appeals Tuesday night, but conditions attached to the approval for the Harry Rosen House at 859 East Broadway render the decision largely meaningless, according to a lawyer for the halfway house.
Banks Waiting Longer To Foreclose
Aug. 31?Some North County homeowners have gone months without paying their mortgages and have yet to receive a foreclosure notice, a development that suggests banks are overloaded and that also might mean foreclosure reports are understating the region's housing crisis. Foreclosure numbers already are staggering, with about 4,000 foreclosures since January in North County, compared to ...
PsyStar Strikes Back at Apple
Blistering counterclaim to Apple's suit by the Mac cloner.
Dell's Expansion Eats Into Earnings
Global expansion has its price, and for Dell it showed up on the bottom line.
Dell Disappoints
Dell's warning that weakness is spreading could endanger the stock market's recovery.

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Thank you for visiting the Macoupin County Housing Authority's home page. We hope the information found here will help you in your search for a place to call home.
 
The Macoupin County Housing Authority is a municipal corporation formed in 1946 to provide decent, safe, and sanitary housing to low and moderate-income people in Macoupin County, Illinois. The Authority owns and manages 362 apartments on nineteen locations in nine cities throughout Macoupin County, Illinois. Our main office is located at 760 Anderson Street, Carlinville, Illinois 62626. We provide subsidized rental apartments to families, seniors, and disabled individuals whose income is up to 80% of the area median income. For more information see the income limits.

 
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Speedy Tropical Storm Hanna charges for Carolinas (AP)

A pickup truck drives through a flooded intersection in downtown Charleston, S.C., as Tropical Storm Hanna threatens the South Carolina coast, on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)AP - Tropical Storm Hanna cruised toward the Carolinas on Friday, forecast to hit land overnight and promising to deliver gusty winds and heavy rain during a dash up the Eastern Seaboard that could wash out the weekend for millions of people.



 Obama, seeing hope in Ohio, shifts schedule there (AP)

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. greets supporters outside Schott Glass in Duryea, Pa., Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)AP - So much for the full-on 50-state strategy. Call Barack Obama's implementation of national Democrats' coast-to-coast plan "Fifty-State Lite."



 McCain, Palin get a rousing welcome in Mich., Wis. (AP)

Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and vice presidential candidate Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, attend a rally, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008, in Cedarburg, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)AP - John McCain and Sarah Palin got a rousing welcome Friday to the final two months of the presidential campaign, stressing themes of a strong America and concern about the sinking economy. "Tough times all over America," McCain said.



 Rice meets Gadhafi on historic visit to Libya (AP)

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Rice begins a four-nation tour of North Africa in Tripoli today, meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and other top officials in what the State Department is calling a landmark trip that will symbolize the opening of a new era in ties between the United States and the oil-rich country. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman.



 White House: Bush wasn't detached from war review (AP)

President Bush walks out of the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008, toward the South Lawn before the boarding Marine One helicopter for a trip to Camp David. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)AP - The White House on Friday disputed an assertion in a new book by Bob Woodward that President Bush was slow to react to escalating attacks in Iraq, forcefully arguing that Bush's military buildup was responsible for a sharp drop in the violence.



 Wash. rampage suspect in court: 'I kill for God' (AP)

Isaac Zamora's feet and hands are shackled as he appears in Skagit County district court Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008, in Mount Vernon, Wash. Zamora is accused in a shooting and stabbing rampage Tuesday that left six people dead and four wounded. Judge David Svaren prohibited photographers from showing Zamora's face during his brief appearance. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)AP - "I kill for God. I listen to God," a man accused of a northwest Washington shooting rampage said Friday at a hearing where six charges of first-degree murder and four of first-degree assault were filed against him.



 Government may soon back troubled mortgage giants (AP)

In this Aug. 13, 2008 file photo, a foreclosed home sits empty in Chandler, Ariz. A record 9 percent of American homeowners with a mortgage were either behind on their payments or in foreclosure at the end of June, as damage from the housing crisis continues to mount, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Matt York, file)AP - The government is expected to take over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as soon as this weekend in a monumental move designed to protect the mortgage market from the failure of the two companies, which together hold or guarantee half of the nation's mortgage debt, a person briefed on the matter said Friday night.



 Stand Up to Cancer telethon takes over network TV (AP)

Singers Sheryl Crow, left, and James Taylor pose together before the Stand Up to Cancer benefit at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)AP - Three TV networks, cancer research advocates and more than 60 celebrities from music, sports, TV and film made history Friday night with a live telethon that aired simultaneously on NBC, ABC and CBS.



 2-time champ Serena Williams back in US Open final (AP)

Serena Williams, of the United States, reacts after defeating Dinara Safina, of Russia, in two sets in their semifinal match at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - Serena Williams wound up and smacked a shot directly at Dinara Safina early in the second set of their U.S. Open semifinal.



 AL home run leader Quentin breaks wrist (AP)

Chicago White Sox's Carlos Quentin breaks his bat as he grounds out into a game-ending double play in the ninth inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)AP - American League home run leader Carlos Quentin has a broken right wrist stemming from his own temper, and the Chicago White Sox left fielder will have surgery Monday that could sideline him for the rest of the season.



 U.S. to take control of mortgage giants: reports (Reuters)

A combination image showing (clockwise from top L) Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, Senator Harry Reid, Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Barney Frank. (Shannon Stapleton - Top L/Joshua Roberts - Top R/Carlos Barria - bottom R/Jonathan Ernst - bottom L/Reuters)Reuters - The U.S. government plans to put troubled mortgage finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac under federal control, the New York Times and Washington Post newspapers reported on Friday.



 McCain and Obama clash on economy (Reuters)

Barack Obama meets voters in Pennsylvania. Republican presidential hopeful John McCain attacked his Democratic rival as too weak to lead the nation as he tried to grab Obama's mantle of change.(AFP/Saul Loeb)Reuters - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama, back on the campaign trail after their party conventions, clashed over the ailing U.S. economy on Friday as unemployment hit its highest monthly rate in nearly five years.



 Boeing machinists to strike as contract talks fail (Reuters)

Boeing machinist Jim Anderson prepares strike signs at machinists union headquarters in Seattle, Washington, September 3, 2008. (Robert Sorbo/Reuters)Reuters - Boeing Co's 27,000-strong machinists' union declared it will strike at midnight Pacific time on Friday, as the plane maker failed to improve its contract offer after two days of emergency talks.



 Hurricane Ike targets Gulf, Hanna's toll rises (Reuters)

Hurricane Ike is visible east-northeast of Grand Turk Island in a satellite image taken September 5, 2008. (NOAA/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - Fierce Hurricane Ike weakened as it charged across the Atlantic on Friday and took aim at south Florida and the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico, while Tropical Storm Hanna buffeted the Carolinas after killing at least 529 people in Haiti.



 Rice meets Gaddafi on historic Libya visit (Reuters)

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) in Tripoli September 5, 2008. Rice met Gaddafi -- once reviled as a 'mad dog' by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- once reviled as a "mad dog" by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies.



 Iraq wants explanation on reported U.S. spying on PM (Reuters)
Reuters - Iraq will seek an explanation from U.S. officials about a report asserting the United States spied on Iraqi officials, including Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi government spokesman said on Friday.
Bhutto's widower set to become Pakistan's president (Reuters)

Supporters of Pakistan People's Party hold a poster of their former leader Benazir Bhutto while they gather to celebrate the nomination of Asif Ali Zardari as presidential candidate in Multan, September 5, 2008. (Asim Tanveer/Reuters)Reuters - Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, was poised on Saturday to win an election to become president.



 U.S. appeals to Ukraine to unite with West (Reuters)

France's President Nicolas Sarkozy (2nd R), France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (2nd L), European foreign policy chief Javier Solana (L) and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (R) hold a joint news conference at the end of a European Union leaders emergency summit in Brussels, September 1, 2008. (Yves Herman/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney appealed to Ukraine's divided leaders on Friday to unite and forge closer links with the West, pledging Washington's support for Kiev to join the NATO military alliance.



 Bhutto's widower set to become Pakistan president (AFP)

Asif Ali Zardari -- the co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Pakistan lawmakers were Saturday expected to elect slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower as president of the frontline state in the United States-led AFP - Pakistan lawmakers were Saturday expected to elect slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower as president of the frontline state in the United States-led "war on terror".



 US Secretary of State visits Tunisia after Kadhafi meeting (AFP)

Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi (R) poses with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in Tripoli on September 5.(AFP/Mahmud Turkia)AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Tunis early Saturday to pursue a North Africa tour after a landmark meeting in Libya with its leader Moamer Kadhafi.
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