AltWeeklies Wire
Mondo Condonew
When apartments are converted, renters don't have many rights.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jonathan Kaminsky |
08-15-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Trickle-Up Theorynew
Could affordable-housing developers become green-building pioneers?
Philadelphia City Paper |
Doron Taussig |
08-14-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Give to the Rich, Take from the Poornew
After years of go-nowhere schemes, that's the plan for Florida's Watson Island.
Miami New Times |
Isaiah Thompson |
08-13-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Nova Scotia Coast is On the Rocksnew
The "international treasure" is supposed to be public property to the high-water mark -- but private development and ineffective regulation threaten to both wreck the coastal ecosystem and take access to the shore out of you.
The Coast, Halifax's Weekly |
Tim Bousquet |
08-10-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Artists' Lofts?new
The Elder Street Artist Lofts sold itself as a place for artists to live and work -- so where are all the artists?
Houston Press |
Keith Plocek |
08-07-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
CA Housing Corruption Report Takes Shortcutsnew
A Pasadena-commissioned report to investigate reports of fraud forgot to talk to a few people - those who were allegedly manipulated by a local developer.
Pasadena Weekly |
André Coleman |
08-03-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Rent Strike in Williamsburgnew
Tenants claim they've been without heat and hot water - their landlord says they're lying. Either way, rents are gonna rise.
New York Press |
Josh Saul |
08-02-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Anti-McMansion ordinance aims to slow supersized housesnew
Legislation may offer win-win solution for developers and homeowners
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
08-02-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Big Homes, Small Lotsnew
SW neighbors fight new development trend.
The Portland Mercury |
Amy J. Ruiz |
07-26-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
San Antonio Residents Protest Homeless Campusnew
Helter shelter for a neighborhood anticipating hundreds of the city's homeless -- many of whom suffer from mental illness and drug addiction -- on their front door steps.
San Antonio Current |
Kiko Martinez |
07-20-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
DeKalb Neighbors Make Sure Sembler Feels Their Cloutnew
Residents weigh in on proposed $1 billion development.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Scott Henry |
07-19-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Rehabilitation Without Gentrification?new
Chicago teens try their hand at urban planning.
Chicago Reader |
Ben Joravsky |
07-16-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Ron Cowan's Latest Lawsuitnew
Developer sues Alameda to circumvent affordable housing and zoning laws that threaten his land's potential profits.
East Bay Express |
Robert Gammon |
07-11-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Truth About Housing Moneynew
Care Not Cash was supposed to pay for itself.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Calvin Welch |
07-05-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Housing Authoritynew
Kansas City's public housing officials want you to think everything's great -- Miss Lizzie Brown knows otherwise.
The Pitch |
Carolyn Szczepanski |
07-03-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
