Habitat Home to Be Put Up in 'Blitz Build'
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Feb. 16--HILLSBOROUGH -- Students from the UNC-Chapel Hill Habitat for Humanity, members of the Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church, St.
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By Sandra Tan, The Buffalo News, N.Y.  Jun. 20--The Henslow's sparrow prefers to stay hidden.   But the threatened species has been found in Lancaster, and its presence has stopped a developer from moving forward with its plan for a major housing development.
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Property hunters will be given a &quot;rare opportunity&quot; to get back to nature next week when a cave home goes up for auction.
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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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When Joyce Greenfield decided to build a house in the Southern Maryland town of Chaptico, she knew she wanted a single-story rambler with at least three bedrooms and fancy bathrooms. At 49 and inching toward retirement, she needed something affordable -- a modular home.
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With solid concrete walls and roofs and  laminated glass windows protected by storm shutters, a house  can be built to withstand nearly any hurricane. But very few  are.
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By Crystal Moore, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Feb. 17--Ray Burgess is a Habitat for Humanity superhero. Burgess, a member of Shalimar United Methodist Church, has been involved with the Okaloosa County division of Habitat since its first day in 1991.
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New business group will work with content owners in effort to build products providing digital media throughout the home.
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Ministers are to announce plans for 'safe rooms' in houses to help protect victims of domestic violence.
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photos The NowHouse project in San Francisco brings together the latest in design, construction and digital wares.
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Two residents got the keys Thursday to what are believed to be the first homes built in the Lower Ninth Ward since Hurricane Katrina hit 18 months ago, and officials hope the houses &#151; elevated against floodwaters and designed to withstand 160 mph winds &#151; will help spark a revival in the devastated neighborhood.
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By Deirdre Fernandes, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Sep. 22--Is Virginia Beach hip enough for loft living?   The developers of Town Center are betting on it.
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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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By Walker, Ben  EXCLUSIVE  Developers that build just three below-par housing schemes will be kicked off a new gold standard of approvedThames Gateway housebuilders under proposals from a high-level Mousing Corporationbacked commission.
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The homebuilder looks like a good place to park some cash.
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Local authorities have approved construction of 42 new houses next to a luxury home owned by Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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Historic Church Hill's annual holiday festival will conclude tomorrow with a homes tour from noon to 6 p.m.  Eleven houses will be open:  -- 719 N. 33rd St., home of Karen Kulinich  -- 9 N. 30th St., home of Frank Von Richter  -- 500 N.