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City Hall Protest Demands More Housing For The Poor

Anti poverty activists want more housing for the poor in Springfield Massachusetts. The comprehensive master plan for rebuilding from the tornado does not call for more affordable housing to be built....

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Springfield Awarded $21.9 Million To Help Tornado Recovery

The  U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has awarded more than $21 million to the city of Springfield Massachusetts to help it recover from the June 2011 tornado.    Springfield Mayor...

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Volunteers To Repair Houses In Poor Neighborhood

A massive housing renovation project will take place this Saturday in one of the poorest neighborhoods in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.  A thousand volunteers will pack two contiguous streets  in...

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Plan Unveiled For Spending Disaster Recovery Funds

Officials in Springfield, Massachusetts have produced a plan for spending millions of dollars in federal disaster recovery funds.  It is the latest step in a long road to recovery from the June...

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Springfield Gets OK To Spend $13M On Tornado Recovery

Officials with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development have approved plans by the city of Springfield, Massachusetts to spend $13 million on redeveloping an impoverished area of the city...

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Chinese Rail Car Maker Builds Support For Possible Springfield Factory

Top executives from a Chinese rail car company who are considering building a $30 million factory in Springfield, Massachusetts got a look today at where their future employees might come from....

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Worker-owned Upholstery Shop Brings Jobs To Poor Neighborhood

A community partnership is promoting an old business model – the worker- owned cooperative – as a way to revitalize the poorest neighborhoods of Springfield, Massachusetts. An upholstery shop on the...

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Nonprofit Organization Sets 10-year Plan To Revitalize Neighborhood

Rebuilding Together, a national non-profit that works to preserve affordable housing, has announced a multi-year effort in Springfield, Massachusetts to repair hundreds of homes in one of the poorest...

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New Houses Going Up In Neighborhood Slammed By 2011 Tornado

Sunday marks the third anniversary of the most powerful storm to strike Massachusetts in a half-century, an EF-3 rated tornado that killed three people, injured dozens more, and damaged or destroyed...

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Tornado Scars Remain Three Years Later

People in Springfield, Massachusetts reflected Sunday on the third anniversary of the tornado that left a major scar on the city.   While officials say they are proud of the recovery process, they...

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