By Brandon Brice

In my recent article, “Jobs, Baby, Jobs”, the idea of job creation and common sense dominated the main theme. As conservatives, libertarians or moderates we realize that now President Barack H. Obama is our new Commander and Chief, but we can always look towards the future. Vice Presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, during the debates, once suggested that America return to basics.
Gov. Palin was correct, but the audience she missed is the millions of low income families nationwide. In the next three to four years, the GOP should adopt the agenda of “urban conservatism”, a movement …

                  By Cleo Brown
Although housing is a basic need of life, Helen, a college- educated mother of five, became homeless in 1993 after she divorced her husband of thirteen years and lost custody of their children. 
Compounding Helen’s descent into homelessness was the presence of a debilitating mental illness, which had, at its core, a fear of fire and, consequently, a fear of living indoors.  Helen remained homeless until 2004 when she was both helped by expert psychiatric care, counseling, and medications as well as by a low income housing development which accepted her as a client although Helen believed that she …

From Harlem to Atlanta, the site of huge project buildings can be a sore spot for any developing community. The question that many people have concerning these government run facilities is are they empowering people or are they hindering them?
Most of these facilities are run by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and exist to provide low-income housing tenats with housing alternatives.  Over the years, a few Republicans have come up with an alternative reform view to such facilities known to policy specialist as Housing Choice. 
 The Heritage Foundations Dr. Ronald D. Utt, is one of the Housing Choice movement’s strongest advocates. One issue that Republicans can use to …