AltWeeklies Wire
The Mayor of Boxvillenew
Mackie Choice is the mayor of Dallas -- or at least of Dallas' homeless community.
Dallas Observer |
Rick Kennedy |
03-28-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Big Co-op Squeezenew
The Canadian government's cash grab wipes out thousands of subsidized units in a market desperate for cheap housing.
NOW Magazine |
Andrew Cash |
03-23-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
It Takes a Villagenew
Green communal living may be the future, but can wary urbanites hack it?
NOW Magazine |
Adria Vasil |
03-23-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Ground Control to Maj. Boortznew
Cox Radio blowhard Neal Boortz has done some covert, high-pressure lobbying to preserve a sweetheart deal he and some buddies have on a Georgia airport's public property.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
John F. Sugg |
03-23-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: Fishwrapper
SMU's Shamenew
Even people who like Bush shouldn't want his presidential library in Dallas, since it will be built on land hornswoggled from elderly condo dwellers.
Dallas Observer |
Jim Schutze |
03-20-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: George W. Bush
End of Their Scopenew
The success and failure of owner-occupant neighborhood renewal play out on one Baltimore city block.
Baltimore City Paper |
Edward Ericson Jr. |
03-15-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Let the Sun Shine Innew
No one seems to know if Louisville's Arena Authority is a public entity, which helps arena advocates do their work behind closed doors.
LEO Weekly |
Billy Reed |
03-13-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: FOIA
Street Furniture Fix Is Innew
Aiming to recover cost at any cost, Toronto's bureaucrats are filling the city's "beautification" projects with ads.
NOW Magazine |
Mike Smith |
03-09-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Plan to Nowhere?new
The Seattle region's ambitious 10-year plan to end homelessness is in serious trouble, undercut and underfunded -- and things are about to get worse, thanks to the Bush administration.
Seattle Weekly |
Philip Dawdy |
03-08-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Road to Nowherenew
The FBI probes links between California state Senator Don Perata and a $40 million roadway project designed to enrich developer Ron Cowan.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon and Will Harper |
03-06-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Slush Moneynew
Political insiders in South Florida are using a private foundation to subvert open-government laws and reward friendly developers with public money.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Trevor Aaronson |
02-28-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Access Hollywoodnew
The City of Hollywood, Fla. -- intent on turning the "Diamond of the Gold Coast" into a manicured beachside community dotted with condominium towers -- has big, expensive plans for local neighborhoods.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Trevor Aaronson |
02-21-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Battle of Biscaynenew
A place where hookers and drug dealers roam becomes Miami's Soho.
Miami New Times |
Forrest Norman |
02-06-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: Biscayne Boulevard, gentrification
