AltWeeklies Wire
NORA's Long Road Aheadnew
The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority is finally getting enough money to do its job. Is the agency ready?
Gambit |
David Winkler-Schmit |
12-19-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Homes for Whom?new
In San Francisco, affordable housing is shaping up to be the big political issue of 2008.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sarah Phelan |
12-19-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
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
One Mother Slipping Through the Cracksnew
A New Haven mother battles illness, homelessness and the slow-moving social service bureaucracy.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
12-11-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: 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
Bill Rosendahl: The Lone Voice of Reasonnew
For nearly two years he’d been the only government ally for the tenants of Lincoln Place, a Venice affordable housing project that invading corporate giant AIMCO planned to bulldoze.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
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
Housing: The Urbanist Approachnew
Not one more inch of farmland in California would need to be developed if we were just willing to put growth inside existing cities.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Gabriel Metcalf |
11-28-2007 |
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
New Haven's Public Housing Vacancy Problemnew
Public housing apartments are breaking faster than New Haven can repair them.
New Haven Advocate |
Betsy Yagla |
11-20-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Urban Alchemynew
Smart growth is changing Atlanta but can only get so far without better transit.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Thomas Wheatley |
11-15-2007 |
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
Watching the Inspectorsnew
Hilton Green is highly qualified to investigate Baltimore's Department of Housing -- so why isn't he?
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
11-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
