AltWeeklies Wire
Inside Grovernew
A Montreal community of creatives wonders what will happen if their building goes condo.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
02-10-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: gentrification
In Support of Sprawlnew
A controversial architecture historian proposes that suburbia is a good thing.
Tucson Weekly |
Margaret Regan |
02-08-2006 |
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
Stacked Decknew
Giving penny-ante politicians a say over lucrative affordable-housing developments seemed like a good idea -- until the FBI came calling.
Dallas Observer |
Matt Pulle |
01-31-2006 |
Housing & Development
Pouring Money Down a Holenew
A new audit shows how a PGA tournament sucked millions of dollars from San Francisco parks.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-30-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Trouble in the Gardennew
The 350 families who banded together as the South Central Farmers, and transformed an industrial dump into a jungle paradise, are now being evicted.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dean Kuipers |
01-26-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
A Room of One's Ownnew
While waiting for a master plan, some leaders go their own way in solving the affordable housing crisis in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Joe Piaseck |
01-26-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Unintended Evictionsnew
An attempted solution to rental evictions may actually force more people out of rent-controlled apartments in an already tight San Francisco housing market.
SF Weekly |
Matt Smith |
01-23-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: rent control, tenancies in common
In Melinda's Memorynew
The Christmas Eve death of a homeless woman prompts questions about conditions in one of San Francisco's largest shelters.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tali Woodward |
01-19-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: homelessness
Low Prices to Displace Low Incomesnew
A proposed Wal-Mart could evict mobile home residents in Asheville, N.C.
Mountain Xpress |
Cecil Bothwell |
01-17-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: hottopic
It's A Crimenew
A guide to high-crime, low-cost housing in Orange County shows that even in the toughest neighborhoods, affordable housing is nonexistent.
OC Weekly |
Ernest L. Kim |
01-09-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: real estate boom, housing market
Ghost Townnew
Oakland's Fruitvale Village has been heralded as the future of transit-oriented 'smart-growth' development, but its retail establishments are struggling to attract customers.
East Bay Express |
Eliza Strickland |
01-09-2006 |
Housing & Development
Merry Xmas From the Dead Mallsnew
Once kings of the retail jungle, malls have lost customers to the Internet and big-box retailers. But malls can't slink off into a cave and die. They just stand there, huge and vacant.
The Pitch |
David Martin |
12-20-2005 |
Housing & Development
