Public Housing

When it was introduced in 1994, the federal housing experiment Moving to Opportunity was, to some, a means to rectify poverty. To others, it was a way for cities to dump their poorest residents on the suburbs. Many deemed it a failure, and officials...

Like a victim tied to buzz saw table in an old movie melodrama, federal, state and local agencies and departments, and a host of businesses and nonprofit organizations are watching with alarm as budget blades churn toward them. On Friday automatic...

Standing in a hallway of an unfinished apartment high-rise on Lake Shore Drive, sporting a dark suit and hard hat, Curt Bailey bent his head and stared. At the carpet. Then he and a group of his subordinates went to a different floor and stared down...

Reserves built up by the Hampton Redevelopment and Housing Authority will likely stave off any real impacts from sequestration to residents in need of housing vouchers for at least a few months. Director Ronald Jackson believes any issues associated...

For some Scarsdale neighborhood residents, low-income housing again sat at the heart of controversy over an Arlington Heights housing study. Community members spoke out against the final report of the "Homes for a Changing Region" project. Slamming...

Editor’s note: This is one in an occasional series of stories on findings and recommendations in the Hagerstown and Washington County Economic Development Strategic Plan. Poverty, low-income housing and vacant properties in downtown Hagerstown...

Adela Cepeda stepped adroitly along her path to become one of the city's most prominent Latina businesswomen. But she walked it on her own, rather than as part of the power couple she and her husband were once well on their way to becoming. Cepeda, an...

The Lake County Housing Authority recently learned it will receive almost $300,000 to upgrade several subsidized public housing properties. The grant was given by the Illinois Public Housing Authority's energy program at the University of Illinois and...

The team picked to redevelop the 62-acre O'Donnell Heights public housing project in Southeast Baltimore has started construction after closing on $20 million in funding for the rental homes in phase one. The Michaels Development Co. and AHC Greater...

MVB Financial Corp. FAIRMONT, W.Va. — MVB Financial Corp. recently announced it has reached an agreement to purchase the northern Virginia residential mortgage company Potomac Mortgage Group LLC, which has offices in Fairfax, McLean and Reston,...

Blog Sponsored by Taylor & Carls, P.A. Associations with proper tenant approval authority at times are presented with a prospective tenant that is utilizing the federal government’s Housing Choice Vouchers Program, otherwise known as “...

BOYNE CITY -- Jane MacKenzie, 49, said she heard the housing commission in Boyne City was in need of better oversight and knew she could help. She applied to be executive director of the commission and, last week, started work. The commission in Boyne...