10 Jul 2006
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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 2006
Page
1
Andrea Sumpter says she missed the automatic lease renewal clause and faced a second year in an upstairs rental. She complained to housing hot lines and city inspectors, who arrived to assess conditions at the property owned by Del Hedgepath in Lawrence, Kansas.
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A local survey item notes that the term Mean is used differently in explaining data for a homeless population. The report cites DJ Gdiepenbrock of LJWorld and discusses interpretation challenges in community results.
KU social welfare experts say Lawrence residents are not as mean to the homeless as a national ranking claimed. In interviews with 56 respondents in April, most cited unaffordable rent, job loss, or housing shortages as key homelessness causes, with others noting disability, family problems, and transportation.
Kansas University students face higher costs as loan rates rise. The new Stafford loans fix at 6.8 percent, PLUS loans at 7.9 percent, while existing Stafford loans stay variable at 6.54 percent this year. KU students, about 11,000, will feel the impact as education expenses climb.
Advocates argue black Americans deserve compensation for slavery and Jim Crow. The effort, aided by scholars and lawyers, has moved from fringe to mainstream with church apologies and studies on repayment, while cities and states push measures exposing historical ties to slavery and court cases advance. Harvard professor Charles Ogletree says renewed vigor marks a 21st century surge in the movement. Episcopal Church apologizes and studies compensation, with a documentary on white culpability shown at a national assembly.
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