Affordable Housing Nationwide

NEW YORK, Aug. 28, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — To mark the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, youth leaders for Global Kids, Inc. have created an online community and game in conjunction with Game Pill, Inc., AMD and Microsoft Corp.'s Partners in Learning where young people can engage in and experience the ongoing relief efforts in New Orleans. Global Kids, the foremost nonprofit in ...

BATON ROUGE — Three years after sustaining heavy wind and flood damage from Hurricane Katrina, Charity Hospital remains shuttered as state and federal authorities continue to disagree about the scope and cost of the damage to the historic building. Numerous studies have failed to produce consensus on how much the state should be reimbursed under the Stafford Act, which governs the federal ...

Thanks to a living room chat with a cancer-stricken 9th Ward resident and other recent face-to-face meetings with Road Home applicants or their advocates, the state's recovery chief has agreed to rescind looming deadlines. Louisiana Recovery Authority Director Paul Rainwater said individual encounters with beleaguered residents made him realize that Sept. 5 and Oct. 1 deadlines he imposed early ...

TWO YEARS AGO, California made a precedent-setting commitment to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That's when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed landmark legislation aimed at cutting the emissions 25 percent by 2020.

For 30 years, as California's growing population led to sprawling suburbs, traffic jams and fewer farms, attempts to craft statewide laws to stop it have failed again and again. City councils worried about losing local control. Property rights advocates bristled. And the ranch house with a backyard the centerpiece of Sunset magazine and the Brady Bunch lifestyle proved a powerful symbol. But ...

The $1,000 down payment program at Continental Home Loans is on borrowed time, but the Melville company's chief executive, Mike McHugh, knew it might have a short life.

Efforts to tighten lending standards appear to have had little effect so far, as reports of mortgage fraud increased 42 percent in the first quarter of 2008 from the same period of 2007.

Ending homelessness will be a major push among the nation's mayors if Barack Obama is elected president. "We're going to hold him accountable for his rhetoric - that is, a substantial investment in housing in this country," San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday.

Aug. 27—The nonprofit corporation charged with redeveloping downtown Bowling Green is moving toward hiring a full-time professional director, with board members agreeing to advertise for applicants soon, although they won't be able to pay that person for some time. "Until the TIF bonds are issued, we really don't have the money to pay somebody," said Mary Cohron, chair of the Warren County ...

LEESBURG, Va. - Vanessa and Jim Graziano walked appreciatively around the small house decorated in tasteful beige and ocher furnishings. Wine bottles sat enticingly on the granite-like countertops. A spacious wooden porch framed the front door.

Utah is failing consumers by not capping "abusive" interest rates on small-dollar loans that ultimately pull individuals into debt spirals and drag down the U.S. economy, according to a state-by-state scorecard released Wednesday by three national consumer groups. The National Consumer Law Center, the Consumer Federation of America and Consumers Union listed Utah among 14 states receiving failing ...

An initiative to reduce the number of homes that could be built in north Fillmore might make it difficult for the city to meet its state-mandated quota of affordable housing units, according to a consultant's report presented to the City Council.

The Gulf Coast Renaissance Corp. on Monday launched a housing program designed to help local workers become homeowners, with down payment and closing cost assistance through their employers and REACH Mississippi.

FULL TEXT You can hardly pick up a newspaper or turn on the radio without hearing about declining home values and mortgage delinquencies when adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) reset to unaffordable rates. The problem is growing more severe as people face job losses or are simply overwhelmed by spiraling costs for food, gasoline and other necessities. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has ...

For the $2.7 million it paid to renovate 94 temporary units in the Lafitte public housing complex — the same units slated for demolition in March — the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development could have put up residents at New Orleans' finer hotels. Because the units will be open for only seven months, the agency will pay a whopping $4,103 per unit per month &#8212 ...

The San Jose Planning Commission gave its stamp of approval to a proposal for a condominium development at 746 The Alameda, which will be the first use of stackable parking in District 6.

SCOTT SIMON, host: If you sent children to camp this summer, you might have a few expectations that they would make new friends, have fun, maybe get a few freckles. How about a 9-year-old learning how to make biodiesel fuel or insulate a house with recycled materials? Do they charge union rates? NPR's Jenny Gold reports on a Maryland camp that's putting a green twist on summer. Unidentified Camp ...

WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — U.S. home prices fell at a record rate in June, putting more pressure on an already-fragile financial system. The Case-Shiller index of 20 major metropolitan areas for the month dropped 15.9% from June 2007, Standard & Poor's reported Tuesday.

Developers with the Minvilla Manor homeless housing project secured one more piece in its complicated funding formula Tuesday as Knoxville City Council members gave initial approval to a 20-year tax incentive for the initiative.

Turns out, Denver's homeless don't need those movie tickets and museum passes to distract them during the Democratic National Convention. So far, at least, they have mostly cleared out of busier DNC event spots, such as Civic Center, to take advantage of extended shelter hours and quieter parks around the city, homeless advocates reported. The Colorado Coalition for the Homeless ditched plans to ...