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Upcoming: Cohousing Meeting in Brooklyn

September 2nd, 2008 · Comments Off on Upcoming: Cohousing Meeting in Brooklyn

We’ve posted about cohousing before and there’s a meeting coming up about it later this week. Here, from an email we received from Alex Marshall of the Brooklyn Cohousing Group: Interested in a more community-oriented way of living? Mary Kraus of Kraus-Fitch Architects will give a free public slide show and lecture about Cohousing communities […]

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Housing Descrimination Hotline Launched

July 19th, 2008 · 1 Comment

There was a press conference yesterday held by Councilmember Bill de Blasio, the Legal Aid Society, and Russian community leaders to announce a new hotline providing legal assistance to victims of housing discrimination. Mr. de Blasio, who is a candidate for Brooklyn Borough President, sponsored anti-discrimination legislation (Intro 61a) that prohibits landlords from refusing to […]

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Tags: Housing Issues