A TIME.COM story by Tim Padgett
When Florida legislators recently struggled to balance the battered state budget, they decided to plug holes with $190 million from a $300 million affordable-housing trust fund. After all, why should a cash-strapped state shell out money for new home construction when there are tons of vacant homes just waiting to be snapped up? One of the few benefits of a housing crash, theoretically at least, is supposed to be that home buyers who were previously priced out of the market might finally be able to afford a place of their own.

A TIME.COM story by Madison Gray
 
Seen in decades past as a solution to housing low income residents, units that fall under federal or state subsidy is under increasing scrutiny and faces opt-outs by owners over the next several years.
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Another housing crisis may be looming even as the mortgage meltdown continues and as Americans who once dreamed of home ownership see their properties foreclosed. The Housing Act of 1937, imposed in the wake of the Great Depression, and amended a number of times in the 1970s, is reaching a crossroads — and close to five million Americans who depend on subsidized public housing may soon have to figure out where and how they are going to live.

This brief and timely report from ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is a cogent and comprehensive summary of the crisis in affordable housing, and contains with recommendations on every page on how we can address it.
America today faces its most significant housing crisis in three generations, as record numbers of Americans lose their homes to foreclosure while the frozen credit markets and recession economy keep homeownership a distant dream for too many. Homeowners of color and low-income homeowners have been particularly hard hit, as they were early targets for unregulated predatory lending.
For nearly forty years, ACORN has stood on the front lines of the movement to fulfill the American dream of safe, affordable homeownership for people of modest means, and has learned many lessons that can guide an informed and effective response to the current crisis.

 The African-American community often dismisses the need for mental health care.  Statistically, we are more prone to mental disorders than any other race. Yet, we ignore the fact that our mental demons may need more than a bout of aggression or conversation with family and spiritual guides.  But is mental health care too taboo for us to accept?

Written by Katie Robbins, edited and directed by Philip Swift, this brief video makes a telling and persuasive point about the usefulness of market economics in the field of health care.

With President Obama trying to develop a new health care system for the United States, I've come up with many questions for the public, as well as myself, to gain a better understanding of how we can change.
 
 What are we doing to provide health care?
How can people get treatment under the Universal Health Care system?
How do people get informed if they are qualified for health insurance now?
How is the government advertising the new health care proposal?
How many people die from not being able to see a doctor?

In today's society the AIDS virus continues to affect many people. Among this large pecentage of people carrying the virus, African-American women are among the highest. Nearly 71.8% of African-American have the virus according to recent studies. What can be done about this epedemic?