AltWeeklies Wire
Development Hellnew
Dan Doctoroff exits as New York's controversial planning czar, and talks about his legacy.
New York Press |
Andrew J. Hawkins |
12-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Merry Christmas from HUDnew
Despite Katrina causing the worst affordable housing crisis since the Civil War, HUD is spending $762 million in taxpayer funds to tear down more than 4,600 publicly subsidized apartments and replace them with 744 similarly subsidized units -- an 82 percent reduction.
Gambit |
Bill Quigley |
12-12-2007 |
Housing & Development
Renters are Latest Victims of Subprime Mortgagesnew
Rent hikes and foreclosures lead to evictions.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
11-30-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
EcoDensity Won't Cut House Pricesnew
EcoDensity has been billed as supplying more housing through densification–laneway homes, condos on top of stores, rezoning sprawling house-oriented neighborhoods to accommodate low-rise apartments–and prices would drop into the affordable zone.
The Georgia Straight |
Pieta Woolley |
11-30-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
L.A.'s Homeless are Targeted for Harassmentnew
Ask anyone familiar with Skid Row, and they will tell you that Safer Cities Initiative is essentially a tool for making the streets of Central City East -- the official name for Skid Row's 50 square blocks -- safer for the developers and art gallery owners and loft dwellers who have either moved in or want to.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Guempel |
11-30-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
A Question of Intentnew
As lawsuits and regulators probe Lennar Corp.'s negligent approach to development, a new campaign seeks to give the embattled corporation even more control over San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
11-28-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Phoenix's Temple of Doomnew
Michael Levine is determined to save the temple that rose from the Holocaust and bar mitzvahed Spielberg. The Black Theatre Troupe wants him to go away.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
11-14-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Check is Not In the Mailnew
A program designed to replace thousands of affordable rental units destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans has not rebuilt a single one.
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
11-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Remaking Raleigh: Visions for an Urban Landscapenew
Planning director Mitch Silver sees a 21st-century city.
INDY Week |
Bob Geary |
11-01-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Growth, Growth Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drinknew
Business and political leaders know who to blame for the water crisis -- and it's not us.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Wheatley; Ken Edelstein |
10-18-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
No Vacancy in Vancouvernew
The city is bedeviled by rising rents and low vacancy rates, which take a disproportionate toll on young people.
The Georgia Straight |
Charlie Smith and Carlito Pablo |
10-15-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Reclaiming Lost Homes
With the meteoric rise in foreclosures nationally -- and particularly in Georgia -- courthouse auctios have become the mechanism by which a community reclaims many of the homes and, hopefully, begins to heal itself.
Metro Spirit |
Erika Bolin |
10-12-2007 |
Housing & Development
Public Housing On the Chopping Block in ATLnew
As the Atlanta Housing Authority moves to demolish another wave of public housing, what does that mean for the city's poor?
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mara Shalhoup |
09-20-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
John Norquist on Urban Living, Sprawl & Transitnew
Norquist took the skills he learned as Milwaukee mayor from 1988 to 2003 and uses them to provide a model for other cities in his role as president of the Congress for the New Urbanism, based in Chicago.
Shepherd Express |
Dennis A. Shook |
09-14-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Is Jim Hultman's Former Home Stolen Property?new
An unscrupulous mortgage-collection firm sold his Berkeley home out from under him, leaving behind a feud and an eyesore.
East Bay Express |
Jeremy Singer-Vine |
09-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
