Battered N.O. OKs razing public housing
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Despite occasionally violent protests outside, the City Council voted Thursday in favor of demolishing some 4,500 public housing units, a milestone in the city's effort to balance its heritage and its hurricane rebuilding efforts.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 6--EAST BAY CITIES that have problems with blighted rental units should take a close look at the success Pittsburg is having in dealing with the problem.
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By Katherine Rosenberg, Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.  Feb. 4--VICTORVILLE -- A group of dedicated homeowners not only had the tenacity to help remove a problem tenant from their area, but they alerted authorities to a home which later had to be condemned, officials said.
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Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and legislative leaders authorized $7.5 million Wednesday to help rebuild this tornado-damaged state, where deadly twisters killed 12 people and leveled a farming town last month.
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A fire gutted a house in Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina, early Sunday, killing at least seven people. Some of the victims are believed to be college students, Mayor Debbie Smith said.
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BELFAST City Council last night backed a motion condemning the recent release on bail of a serial burglar with more than 100 convictions.
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In normal times, redevelopment of public housing to make way for mixed-income neighborhoods might have gone largely unopposed. But passions are high in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, where residents are desperate for cheap housing.
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Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday said he was relieved that a local group will redevelop Fan Pier after beating an out-of-town rival for the key site on the South Boston Waterfront.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Jun. 22--APEX -- Town police evacuated several units at a townhouse subdivision Thursday after an officer responding to a complaint found explosive materials in an apartment.
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Protests against a City Council plan to tear down low-income New Orleans housing turned ugly Thursday, with police using pepper spray and stun guns to clear a crowd angry they weren't allowed into City Hall for the vote.
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- A four-bedroom, 1-bath colonial for only a $450 monthly mortgage payment? How can you go wrong? Lots of ways. Fair housing advocates say the first-time buyer of that $85,000 Syracuse, N.Y., home lost out in one of the many forms of &quot;house flipping,&quot; or the fast resale of property at high profits.
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National housing advocacy group Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now released a study showing the Boston metropolitan area had one foreclosure filing for every 177 households, ranking 75th out of 100 major US cities in 2006.
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A STREET of 24 homes built on land contaminated by a cancer- causing chemical is to be knocked down.  A pounds 1million-plus project to demolish and rebuild the houses is to go ahead after the Executive yesterday pledged pounds 751,000 for a clean-up.
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Residents will get a chance to tell the city council what they think about an ordinance that would halt the conversion of single-family houses into rental units for at least six months.
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By John Ferak, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Jun. 4--YUTAN, Neb. -- Darkness fell. Doors closed. Lights went off.   The public library here became an attractive place for an unusual pattern of repeat break-ins.
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By Hannah Mitchell, The Charlotte Observer, N.C.  Sep. 15--HICKORY -- City Council members may have come up with a compromise to protect homes from business encroachment without stifling development.
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Protesters and police scuffle in New Orleans at a city hall meeting over a plan to demolish public housing.