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Flooding drives residents from Glendale apartments - 3TV

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(Source: Karla Navarrete, 3TV/CBS 5) (Source: Karla Navarrete, 3TV/CBS 5) GLENDALE, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - Flooding sparked by rain Saturday night and Sunday morning forced dozens of people out of their homes at a Glendale condo complex . It was about 3 a.m. Sunday when the Arizona chapter of the American Red Cross got a call from the Glendale Fire Department regarding "widespread flooding" at the Glen Condos at Maryland and 63rd avenues. [ WATCH RAW VIDEO : Flooding at Glendale condo complex ] [RELATED: Monsoon storm causes flooding, road closures] [SPECIAL SECTION: Monsoon 2017] According to Red Cross spokesman Colin Williams , about 25 people from eight units are displaced. Those units are split-level. "So, they're essentially below grade; you have to take some stairs to access that," Williams explained . "There's just a lot of standing water in those patio areas so the entire units are flooded." A second apartment complex not far away is dealin...

Asian American Writers' Workshop - Beyond Gifted Hands: Reimagining Fair Housing in New York City

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How the fight against displacement calls for New York City’s Asian immigrant communities to defect from the “ model minority ” narrative. Media Gallery When NYU sophomore Sam Kim attended a rally outside Manhattan’s City Hall in March, he didn’t think that he would be ushered into the spotlight. Kim had learned of the rally through the local housing organization CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence), which called on New Yorkers to oppose President Trump ’s proposed $6.2 billion cut to the 2018 budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This cut would dramatically reduce federal funding for New York City public housing , which currently provides rent-subsidized homes to 600,000 New Yorkers. Along the City Hall steps , Kim and two fellow student organizers joined a rare gathering of tenants from otherwise disparate peripheries of the city. Asian immigrants from Chinatown and Queens stood alongside Black and Latino residents of Brooklyn and the Bronx...

New Yorkers Are Fleeing To Los Angeles In Droves, Study Shows

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NEW YORK, NY — It's one of the oldest rivalries in American migration: New York vs. Los Angeles. For the better part of a century, residents of the nation's two largest metro areas have been defending their chosen kingdom and dismissing the other on an endless loop of judginess between kitty-corner coasts. Ew, the traffic! But the sunshine! But the subway! But the garbage! But the skyline! But the coastline! But the bustle! But the chill! In this tireless war of words, a clear winner has yet to emerge. But it's harder to argue against the numbers. Thousands of working professionals have relocated to Los Angeles County from New York City in the past year and a half, according to a series of monthly "workforce reports" released this spring and summer by the job- networking site LinkedIn (and spotted by LA Weekly). And it's not exactly a two-way street. Since early 2016, according to LinkedIn, around seven or eight out of every 10, 000 site users in LA report...