Learning From Tijuana: Hudson, N.Y., Considers Different Housing Model
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If you doubt that the derelict shantytowns of Tijuana could work as a template for redevelopment in a quaint, upscale town in the Hudson River Valley, youâre probably underestimating Teddy Cruz.
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By CARLOS SANTOS  The local Habitat for Humanity is buying rundown trailer parks threatened by development in order to house the poor in good homes. The Charlottesville affiliate is the first Habitat in the country to try the strategy.
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By The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  May 29--Sacramento County's landmark affordable housing law is under attack, and the real threat isn't the court system, but a new majority on the Board of Supervisors.
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LOS ANGELES  - The film industry might be tough to break into, but it's surprisingly egalitarian when it comes to houses.
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By From staff reports  The City Council's housing panel is retooling a proposal to make apart-ment inspections more effective.  The city had considered reinstating regular inspections with a yearly licensing program funded by fees.
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Architect Shigeru Ban doesn't settle when it comes to bringing the outside in. The two-layer facade on his Metal Shutter Houses, a condo building planned for New York's Chelsea district, will let residents become one with the city.
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Kamran T. Elghanayan is focusing on a swath of factories, parking lots and warehouses on the Far West Side of Manhattan rezoned for residential development.
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Feb. 8--COLONIE -- The electronic marquee outside a Wolf Road hotel Wednesday looked like something from the sci-fi double feature at a 1950s drive-in: Invasive Plants.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 13--OCEAN SPRINGS -- Developers have changed their plan for a controversial apartment complex and will build townhouses instead.
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By Bruce Spence, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Dec. 16--STOCKTON -- Another residential/retail development north of Eight Mile Road has been pitched to the city of Stockton, the second within a month.
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By The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Sep. 6--In Panama City Beach, it seems buildings are either coming or going. Except some aren't going fast enough.  Aggressive development has led to two types of eyesores.
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By MICHAEL ARTZ  Eight formerly homeless families were supposed to move into a newly renovated building on Joshua Street in Battery Park. Instead, all of the families who lived in the blocks around the building are looking for homes themselves.
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SANTA ANA, Calif. -- "Two jobs?" blares a poster at a bus shelter here. The words are in Spanish over a picture of a tired-looking Hispanic woman in a janitor's uniform. "Work and Work but You Still Can't Get Ahead?" reads another ad on a bus shelter down the street. At the bottom, the small print:...
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Dec. 9--Golf courses and recreational centers are draws for many residential developments, but few can promise live theater and an art gallery at the front gate.
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By Jeff Hood, The Record, Stockton, Calif.  Sep.
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Steve Long of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum is answering readers' questions this week on the neighborhood's history of immigration and tenement life.
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By Bob Cuddy, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Jun. 18--The rolling hills that help entice tourists to the North Coast may or may not end up with "starter castles" or other structures on their ridgelines.