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Hitting a Wallnew
 
    
    Louisville’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund remains caught in red tape three years after its inception.
  
    LEO Weekly  |  
    Anne Marshall  |  
    08-17-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Measuring Progress: The Evolution of Downtown Jackson Partnersnew
City dwellers and business advocates have big dreams for their city, but things were rocky just 20 years ago in downtown Jackson.
  
    Jackson Free Press  |  
    Lacey McLaughlin  |  
    08-08-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  Sand Blastednew
 
    
    A wealthy town develops its coast -- and washes away its neighbors.
  
    Cleveland Scene  |  
    Kyle Swenson  |  
    07-28-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Cleveland
  Path of Destructionnew
 
    
    The Med Mart’s parent company has a history of unfinished business.
  
    Cleveland Scene  |  
    Maude L. Campbell  |  
    07-14-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Vornado Realty Trust
  Our HAUSnew
 
    
    Houston gets its first co-op — decades after other cities took the plunge.
  
    Houston Press  |  
    Mandy Oaklander  |  
    07-07-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Oakland's Dirty Hotelnew
 
    
    How the Jack London Inn came to be called one of America's filthiest hotels.
  
    East Bay Express  |  
    Andrew Jones  |  
    06-29-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Jack London Inn
  Hype or Hope?new
 
    
    A report on the outcomes of a Louisville housing project raises tough questions.
  
    LEO Weekly  |  
    Anne Marshall  |  
    06-09-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: HOPE VI
  To Gate or Not to Gate?new
 
    
    Jackson residents could erect gates to their neighborhoods, and still have the city pay for their streets, under a proposed ordinance.
  
    Jackson Free Press  |  
    Adam Lynch  |  
    06-02-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Gated Communities
  Ideological Clash Threatens Energy Efficiency Programnew
 
    
    It had been almost nine months since Greensboro signed a contract with the federal government to receive a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to provide energy-efficiency upgrades to buildings.
  
    YES! Weekly  |  
    Jordan Green  |  
    05-18-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Department of Energy, Stimulus
  Finding the Bottomnew
 
    
    How low will home prices in Tucson go?
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Dave Devine  |  
    05-10-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Housing Market, Home Prices
  Abandoned Hopenew
 
    
    Unprecedented summit examines Louisville’s vacant property problem.
  
    LEO Weekly  |  
    Jonathan Meador  |  
    05-04-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Abandoned property
  Homeowner Defense Groups to Target Wells Fargo Shareholdersnew
 
    
    While deep-pocketed lobbyists have been making it hard to pass laws that would offer at-risk homeowners more protections, homeowner defender groups have decided to target, and now protest against, the group they believe stand directly in the way of equitable reforms: the banks.
  
    San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  
    Sarah Phelan  |  
    05-04-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  Life in Limbonew
 
    
    Apply for a home loan modification, and you're putting your future on the line.
  
    Colorado Springs Independent  |  
    Chet Hardin  |  
    04-28-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  The Foreclosure Fiasconew
 
    
    Bank of America is playing a lot of financial tricks in Hawaii and local families are needlessly losing their homes.
  
    Honolulu Weekly  |  
    Lucy Jokiel  |  
    04-26-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    
  No Place Like Homenew
 
    
    Winter Park's Hannibal Square Community Land Trust redefines what it means to own a home.
  
    Orlando Weekly  |  
    Megan Peck  |  
    04-22-2011  | 
    Housing & Development
  
  
  
    Tags: Land trust, Winter Park