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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Dozens of homes and businesses looked like they were shredded by "high explosives," Lt. Gov. Bill Halter said Sunday as he surveyed the damage a day after a powerful storm injured 40 people.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency has changed its policy and will provide some reimbursement for homeowners who spent their own money to elevate hurricane-damaged houses above flood level.
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More than a dozen expensive homes under construction were burned down early Monday in a suburban Washington housing development that had been criticized by environmentalists because it is next to a nature preserve, officials said.
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A program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development converts distressed public housing into mixed-income communities.
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Well, his house, his business and his car were destroyed.
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The House approved a government insurance program on Tuesday that commits Washington to paying for most of the damage in the event of a terrorist attack in the next seven years.
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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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OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. _ The surge-damaged home of Robert Wiygul and Julia Weaver will be dismantled in January and many of its parts distributed to Gulf Coast people who need building materials.  It could start a trend.
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By Brian Lockhart, The Stamford Advocate, Conn.  Feb. 1--Aiming to reignite efforts to reform eminent domain laws, Gov. M. Jodi Rell yesterday released the outline of a bill requiring that cities and towns take additional precautions before seizing private properties for redevelopment.
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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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Hurricane Ivan smashed apartment  complexes to bits, washed away many homes and damaged nearly  all the roofs in the Cayman Islands, residents of the battered  Caribbean offshore finance hub said on Tuesday.
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By Eric Ferreri, The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 12--DURHAM -- County commissioners approved a 286-home community Monday to be built in the far, rural reaches of South Durham.
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By Karen Sloan, Omaha World-Herald, Neb.  Dec. 11--The site where the crumbling Wintergreen Park Apartments once stood could be transformed into a neighborhood of new homes.
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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 Gina Macris; Journal Staff Writer  The former industrial complex's eligibility for historic preservation tax credits could pave the way for affordable housing.
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In a highly unusual move, the City Council has given 429 East 64th Street and 430 East 65th Street landmark status â for the second time in 16 years.