Public Housing
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| Initial release | France |
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| Directors | Frederick Wiseman |
| Screenplay | Frederick Wiseman |
| Producers | Frederick Wiseman |
| Cinematography | John Davey |
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| ID | 2352082 |
About Public Housing
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his cameras on a housing project that is home to some of the poorest residents living in Chicago's South Side. The film is composed of a series of vignettes that illustrates the daily lives of lower class Chicagoans as they interact with local police officers, social workers and other outsiders. Events range from felony arrests, substance abuse and drug deals to commonplace domestic scenes of tenants and their families. …
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... But the building was shared with the Public Housing department, tasked with finding homes for 2,300 local people...
Local elections 2023: Labour eyes power after Tory poll drubbing
... The seats up for grabs were mostly on district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, Public Housing and planning applications...
Local elections 2023: Polls close across England
... Most of the councils up for election in England are district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, Public Housing and planning applications...
Local elections 2023: Polls to open across England
... Most of the councils up for election in England are district councils, responsible for services including bin collections, parks, Public Housing and planning applications...
Local Elections 2023: Is there an election in my area?
... They look after services including bin collections, parks, Public Housing and local planning applications...
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... He built lavish infrastructure, including Public Housing...
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... More Public Housing was built and free primary education was introduced, partly in a bid to ward off further social movements, Dr Li says...
Bristol mayor flies nine hours for TED climate conference
... " Across our Public Housing stock, we re replacing bathrooms and replacing fittings with more water-efficient showers, sinks, taps, and toilets...
Local Elections 2023: Is there an election in my area?
This May sees the biggest round of local council elections in England and Northern Ireland since 2019, with 40 million people able to choose new councillors.
In England , 230 councils will be electing some or all of their councillors on Thursday 4 May.
About 8,000 councillors are being elected in all.
Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough will also elect mayors.
In Northern Ireland , 462 council seats are being contested across all 11 councils on Thursday 18 May.
Use our lookup to see if there is an Election in your Area .
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Map showing types of council: 2022 Metropolitan Unitary District Northern Ireland No ElectionNote : This lookup covers The Council and mayoral elections in England and Northern Ireland . There may be parish, town or community council elections or council by-elections where you are. In council areas where not all the seats are up for Election there may be wards that have no elections in May. Check your local council website for full Details .
EnglandMost of the seats up this year were last contested in May 2019.
Back Then , Theresa May was The Conservative Prime Minister and she was struggling to find a Brexit deal that would get through The House of Commons. Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the opposition Labour Party .
The Conservatives lost More Than 1,000 council seats in that Election . Labour slipped back slightly, losing 84 councillors, and UKIP lost most of the seats they had gained in the run-up to Brexit.
The Liberal Democrats , The Greens , independent councillors and local parties all increased their representation.
The 2023 elections are mostly taking place in rural areas where the Conservatives still hold many councils. They are defending More Than 3,300 seats.
There are also elections in urban areas in the north of England where Labour are more dominant. They are defending More Than 2,000 seats.
After their gains in 2019, Liberal Democrats won More Than 1,200 seats and the Green Party are defending 240.
What do the councils do?Most of the councils up for Election in May are district councils. They look after services including bin collections, parks, Public Housing and local planning applications.
Other services in these areas such as highways, schools, social and care services are managed by county councils which are elected at a different time.
The rest of the councils are a mixture of metropolitan and unitary councils. These areas have a single local authority that deals with all local services.
Bedford, Leicester, Mansfield and Middlesbrough will all be electing mayors, the directly elected leaders of The Council .
They are responsible for all of the services controlled by The Council from leisure services to social care, and appoint members of The Cabinet who each have responsibility for specific council services.
Northern IrelandIn Northern Ireland there is only one layer of local government. Councils here have responsibility for services such as bin collections, planning, street cleaning, sport and leisure centres, parks and open spaces.
Northern Ireland uses a type of proportional representation to choose councillors called the single transferable vote.
The effect of this system is that No One party controls a council and most work by forming a series of cross-party decision making committees.
Eleven parties and independents won seats at The Last Election in 2019. The Democratic Unionist Party are defending The Most seats, followed by Sinn Féin, the Ulster Unionist Party , the SDLP and The Alliance Party.
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