New York City's Fair Chance for Housing Act (known as Local Law 24 or the Fair Chance Law) became effective on Jan. 1, 2025. The Fair Chance ...

Philips Hue and other smart bulbs based on the Zigbee standard could soon act as motion sensors without the need for any additional hardware. This would mean they could automatically switch on ...

The Laken Riley Act, aimed at clamping down on people in the U.S. illegally who commit nonviolent crimes like theft, is expected to be the first bill President Donald Trump signs into law.Jan. 22 ...

The vote for final passage of the Laken Riley Act was 64-35, with 12 Democrats joining Republicans to approve it. The bill, which was amended in the Senate last week, will be sent back for another ...

The legislation, known as the Laken Riley Act and named for a 22-year-old woman who was murdered last year while jogging at the University of Georgia, would allow for stricter punishments of ...

Peter Romer-Friedman, founder of one of the law firms that filed the complaints, said the measure was drafted to “fill the gap” of the Fair Housing Act, a federal law that doesn’t protect ...

Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file Share A sting operation found that real estate professionals often declined to rent Chicago-area properties to investigators posing as low-income families, a watchdog ...

But Democrats are already looking ahead to next year’s federal pay raise. The FAIR Act would give federal employees a 4.3% pay increase beginning next January. Congressman Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) and ...

Housing ACT has filed plans for a trio of apartment buildings in a “small-scale neighbourhood” in the national capital. The government public homes agency has commissioned 57 social housing apartments ...

All municipalities within Spokane County will collaborate to assemble housing need projections for the next decade under the state's Growth Management Act. Concurrently, Spokane Realtors is actively ...

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