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Residents evicted in late-night condemnation

The lights had been out for eight hours when residents at a towering apartment complex all received some unexpected visitors: It was the police and fire departments, there to inform residents they needed to grab what they could and leave immediately.
YES! Weekly  |  Eric Ginsburg  |  08-22-2012  |  Housing & Development

Coalition doesn’t feel friendly towards developmentnew

The irony wasn’t lost on the residents of Northeast Greensboro attending the Citizens for Economic & Environmental Justice last month: While people in east Greensboro have been courting grocery chains to build a store in their vicinity, a developer intends to open a third grocery store in the Friendly Shopping Center area, and the residents nearby don’t want it.
YES! Weekly  |  Eric Ginsburg  |  03-09-2012  |  Housing & Development

Student group set to launch weatherization outreach and landfill education effortnew

Ignite members are poised to immerse themselves even more fully in local politics as they hope to lead outreach around the city’s $5 million energy efficiency grant and bolster the opposition to the White Street landfill.
YES! Weekly  |  Eric Ginsburg  |  09-08-2011  |  Housing & Development

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