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The Stadium Effectnew
 
    
    What happens when your neighbor is a multimillion dollar shrine to sports?
  
    Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  
    Thomas Wheatley  |  
    09-07-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  House and Homenew
 
    
    The Homeowner Bill of Rights aims to protect those losing homes to foreclosure
  
    North Bay Bohemian  |  
    Leilani Clark  |  
    08-30-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  The Wonder Yearsnew
 
    
    How real estate and gentrification changed a town for good.
  
    C-Ville Weekly  |  
    J. Tobias Beard  |  
    08-28-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Gentrification, Neighborhoods
  City Life Is a Good Life, Once Againnew
 
    
    Americans are reversing the flow to the suburbs, and Fort Worth’s a part of it.
  
    Fort Worth Weekly  |  
    ANDREW MCLEMORE  |  
    08-23-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Residents evicted in late-night condemnation
The lights had been out for eight hours when residents at a towering apartment complex all received some unexpected visitors: It was the police and fire departments, there to inform residents they needed to grab what they could and leave immediately.
  
    YES! Weekly  |  
    Eric Ginsburg  |  
    08-22-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  Leaving the Projects Behindnew
 
    
    As Knoxville begins tearing down an infamous public housing complex, current residents wonder if they'll really be part of the renewal.
  
    Metro Pulse  |  
    Amien Essif and Daniel Snider  |  
    08-17-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Revisiting the great Convention Center black holenew
 
    
    There we go again. Or rather, there they go again. Local leaders keep spending hundreds of millions on our Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, and on its next-door Grand Hyatt hotel, in the hopes that the local convention business will boom.
  
    San Antonio Current  |  
    Heywood Sanders  |  
    08-16-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  Surrounded by Skyscrapersnew
 
    
    The Anna Louise Inn has been helping women in the Lytle Park neighborhood since 1909. Western & Southern thinks that's long enough.
  
    Cincinnati CityBeat  |  
    Danny Cross  |  
    08-15-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  Building On the Public's Dimenew
It seems like every time certain private investors come up short on their grand development ideas, they want to beg, borrow or steal, money from the public purse with the best of intentions.
  
    Random Lengths News  |  
    James Preston Allen  |  
    06-18-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Lay of the Landnew
 
    
    Tucson's rapid-fire downtown-development plans raise a ruckus.
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Tim Vanderpool  |  
    04-20-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: tucson development, tucson overlay
  Binding for Buddhanew
 
    
    A Buddhist center's publishing operation causes friction with neighbors in rural Sonoma County.
  
    North Bay Bohemian  |  
    Leilani Clark  |  
    04-04-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  Overlay Approvednew
 
    
    The City Council bends to developers, upsets residents of the West University neighborhood
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Tim Vanderpool  |  
    03-31-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  For Richer or for Poorer?new
 
    
    In wealthy Marin, opposition to low-income housing is high—and so are the numbers of the county's poor, aged and disabled who need it most
  
    North Bay Bohemian  |  
    Rachel Dovey  |  
    03-31-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Virginia is for Hipstersnew
 
    
    Should local governments offer scarce affordable housing programs to yuppies?
  
    Washington City Paper  |  
    Lydia DePillis  |  
    03-16-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Coalition doesn’t feel friendly towards developmentnew
The irony wasn’t lost on the residents of Northeast Greensboro attending the Citizens for Economic & Environmental Justice last month: While people in east Greensboro have been courting grocery chains to build a store in their vicinity, a developer intends to open a third grocery store in the Friendly Shopping Center area, and the residents nearby don’t want it.
  
    YES! Weekly  |  
    Eric Ginsburg  |  
    03-09-2012  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: greensboro development