New Orleans faces tussle over housing
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A raucous debate over the shortage of cheap housing and the demolition of 4,500 public units is sweeping the city and likely to become more intense.
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Property owners' resistance to barrier between U.S., Mexico raises concerns about its feasibility.
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New Orleans is a city on a knife's edge. A year and a half after Hurricane Katrina, an alarming number of residents are leaving or seriously thinking of getting out for good.
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Demolition of three public housing complexes, slated to start this weekend, was halted Friday amid complaints about the scarcity of housing for the poor after Hurricane Katrina.
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A troubled company in the troubled housing sector.
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Thursday urged the Bush administration to speed aid to Hurricane Katrina victims, suggesting the government was not meeting its legal obligations to help the city recover.
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Now that the hurricane season has ended, New Orleans residents notice a lag in work to rebuild the cityÂs flood protection infrastructure.
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By Michael Newsom, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 21--LONG BEACH -- A plan to waive portions of rebuilding permit fees for churches and other nonprofit groups has stirred hot debate.
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Protesters and police scuffle in New Orleans at a city hall meeting over a plan to demolish public housing.
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The roaring commercial real estate market is getting too hard for property owners to resist.
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Here's an uncomfortable housing scenario that's getting more common in this soft market: You put in a contract on a new house. You can't sell your old house. The sellers are getting pushy.
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NEW YORK -- In a city of skyrocketing rents, where tenant advocates charge that landlords are increasingly trying to move tenants out of rent-regulated apartments in order to significantly raise the rents, the landlord-tenant wars are becoming ferocious.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 7 -- Public housing officials decided Thursday to proceed with the demolition of more than 3,500 government apartments here, brushing aside an outcry from residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina who said the move was intended to reduce the ability of poor black people to...
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New Orleans' latest plan to recover from Hurricane Katrina calls for a 10-year rebuilding program costing $14 billion that will leave some neighborhoods still sparsely populated.
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Thousands of tenants put up with poor housing because they fear eviction if they complain, a charity says.
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By Destin Log, Fla.  Dec. 16--The city of Destin should not be in the housing business. Various community leaders have said that, and so have we.
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Turning potential housing into inhabited homes is proving to be a major challenge for the city.