Residents Push for Code Changes
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By Kris Sherman, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 13--Residents of Tacoma's Central Area neighborhoods say they've grown tired of drug sellers and drug users loitering around neighborhood businesses.   People worry about their safety. They're concerned for their children.
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Some Flushing residents are studying Mandarin to be able to communicate with their new neighbors.
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Council housing report set to recommend ways to create more mixed communities to tackle deprivation.
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Herndon's decision Tuesday night to seek federal training for some of its police officers so they can enforce federal immigration law is part of a long-term effort by a new mayor and Town Council to aggressively curb the presence of residents who are in the country illegally.
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These guilty parties must work together to fix the housing fiasco.
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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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By Jon Ericson, Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier, Iowa  Dec. 10--CEDAR FALLS -- The City Council will consider changes in how it  deals with problems related to crowded student housing in residential areas.
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By JULIAN WALKER; OLYMPIA MEOLA  A group of Henrico County residents took issue with new homes proposed for their area, and they told their supervisors so. Their opposition could cost them more than $5 million.
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By The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 8--One of Anne Arundel County's most poorly kept secrets is that the building permits process doesn't get much respect.   Some say it's too strict. Some say it's too cumbersome.
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By JOHN CASTELLUCCI  Journal Staff Writer  The controversial proposals have already been sent back to the Ordinance Committee    for revision.
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By Tom Lutey, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 23--Linda Dixon, like a lot of Spokane Valley residents, has learned to dread the "Notice of Application" signs that crop up on neighborhood streets whenever a new development is in the works.
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Communities secretary Ruth Kelly is to call for new ways of helping more council tenants get onto the housing ladder.
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A group of residents called Monday for Congress to set up an independent, bipartisan panel similar to the Sept. 11 Commission to investigate why levees failed during Hurricane Katrina.
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After a number of E. coli-related illnesses have recently been reported in the state, area health officials are asking Twin Counties residents to look for warning signs of the disease.
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By Paul Burgarino, STAFF WRITER  SAN RAMON -- A boisterous group of residents packed into City Council chambers this week, concerned about the environmental and aesthetic effects of a proposed land-use plan just outside the city's northwest border.
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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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By Brittany Wallman, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Feb. 9--FORT LAUDERDALE -- The city is poised to settle a lawsuit filed on behalf of homeowners targeted in a late 2004 code enforcement sweep in northwest Fort Lauderdale and four homeowners cited in previous years.