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Mar. 16--PLEASANTON -- In a ruling with wide-ranging, immediate impact on city development, a judge has ordered Pleasanton to drop its voter-approved housing cap because it violates state law and prevents the city from meeting its share of regional housing needs.
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PHOENIX - The five states hardest hit by the foreclosure crisis have been given only weeks to plan how to spend $1.5 billion in federal funding announced by the Obama administration last month.
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CHICAGO - Affiliates of the once mighty liberal activist group ACORN are remaking themselves in a desperate bid to ditch the tarnished name of their parent organization and restore federal grants and other revenue streams that ran dry in the wake of a video scandal.
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Mar. 14--Edna Kilpatrick, 52, and her husband, Lewis, 47, have been renters nearly their entire lives, and thought they would never own a home until last year, when they met Joe and Tammy Hamilton of Deep Run.
Green building and affordable housing don't have to be mutually exclusive.
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Mar. 8--Just a short distance east of downtown Buffalo, a few blocks away from neighborhoods pocked with vacant lots and boarded-up buildings, you'll find Sycamore Village.
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Mar. 4--Two local nonprofit agencies won grants from the U.S. Green Building Council to build green homes.
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Feb. 23--The Charlotte Housing Authority pulled out of a controversial public housing project for Ballantyne Monday, but the other developers of the project said the 86-unit apartment complex for low-income residents will continue.
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Feb. 22--PROVINCETOWN -- A national housing developer will try again Thursday to get money for what would be the largest affordable housing complex in Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet.
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Feb. 19--The buyer's market continues for housing in the Northern San Joaquin Valley.
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Poticha, who is director of HUD’s newly created Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, speaks on land use, transit patterns, economic recovery, and the government’s vision for a healthier built environment.
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Feb. 18--There were 12 percent fewer home foreclosures in Minnesota in 2009, but don't celebrate yet.
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Feb. 17--Four proposed apartment projects would move Dallas much closer to its goal of creating 700 homes for the chronically homeless.
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Ashton Woods Homes’ newest neighborhood will include a catchment and distribution system.
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A new governor and proposed legislation both favor giving municipalities more control over affordable housing requirements.
Flat-pack manufacturer sees its new age product as an answer to natural disasters, climate change, and the affordable housing crisis.
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Feb. 3--A year into a $6 billion federal program to buy up, rehab and sell abandoned properties in hard-hit neighborhoods, the bulk of the first $40 million in Bay Area grants remains unspent.
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Feb. 2--Hank Schmiess waited nearly nine decades for his piece of the American Dream.
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Construction of the 80-unit Summerhill Apartments started in December at Twelfth Street and Hoopes Avenue in Idaho Falls with help from a loan tied to the federal economic-stimulus program.
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Feb. 1--Mired in the weak economy, the state's top affordable-housing agency struggled to help growing numbers of needy families find a better place to call home, a new draft report shows.