Volunteers Are Sprucing Up Trailer Court / 'Baby Steps' Precede Big Plans for Affordable-Housing Development
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By LIESE NOWAK  With only two more weekends until Christmas, the 16 volunteers easily could have decided to hit the shops.
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By Deborah S. Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 8--In the end, the community came together to preserve its past with an eye toward the future.
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State has made strides in easing rules on business, but housing and other costs still bring moving vans.
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Developer that owns most of the Virginia neighborhood's commercial property is giving its shopping and entertainment center a new look.
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By Erika Pesantes, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Mar. 12--WEST BOYNTON -- A controversial development that offered affordable housing before Palm Beach County made it a requirement is welcoming residents onto the former site of a 42-acre bell pepper farm.
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After decades putting up -- and tearing  down -- hundreds of thousands of cheap identikit homes, Britain  is planning a new wave of housebuilding with a major challenge:  to produce communities that last.
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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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A cottage industry is growing in parts   of the U.S. Gulf Coast to help residents displaced by Hurricane   Katrina construct cheaper, easy-to-build homes.
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By Heather Civil, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Dec. 15--FREEPORT -- Walton County has moved a step closer to building an affordable workforce housing project.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Sep. 16--CHAPEL HILL -- Plans for a downtown giving kiosk have hit another snag.   A committee formed to develop plans for the kiosk has suggested spending the money instead on an educational campaign to fight panhandling.
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By PATRICIA FARRELL AIDEM\\ Staff Writer  County planners have received dozens of requests, mostly from environmental groups, urging more time to add their comments before this week's final hearing on the first phase of the huge Newhall Ranch project.
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Despite the bins of construction debris and a nearby group of pot-bellied men wearing hard hats and stained T-shirts, architect Stefanie Ashton seems confident that the site that she's touring with a group of developers will emerge as a sparkling 550,000-square-foot beacon of innovative, posh shopping come September.
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By Michael A. Bell, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Feb. 1--PASS CHRISTIAN -- City officials and a slew of residents Wednesday night attended a workshop on SmartCode, a thorough land-use planning ordinance focusing on how the city will be rebuilt and steps it must take to get there.
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A LONG-awaited refurbishment to a play area in
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By Philippidis, Alex  Affordable housing of some amount will be included in the series of redevelopment projects proposed as part of the $3 billion extreme makeover set for Yonkers' commer cial areas, the developers and city officials are prom promising.
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By Carlos Santos, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 5--CHARLOTTESVILLE  -- 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 Jeff Ayres, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 5--FORT WALTON BEACH   -- Community leaders in an area marked by ofteninadequate housing are hoping an affordable-housing development will help attract people to their neighborhood.