Concord, N.C. wants partner in Logan redevelopment

CONCORD – In meetings with several Logan Community organizations to present a proposed redevelopment of 21 acres of the neighborhoods’ public housing, the big question was always the same: Will the residents currently living in the 106 units of Logan and Chapman Homes be displaced from the site? Not at all, city officials said. “There [...]

Yonkers, N.Y. – Mulford Gardens on track for June demolition

YONKERS -Loose plastic bags tossed about in the bitterly cold wind Friday, over empty walkways and past graffiti scrawled on the side of a brown brick building, reading, “Merry Mulford Xmas! Our last one baby.” Only 120 families remain in the 550-apartment Mulford Gardens public housing complex. Residents have been moving out since the summer, [...]

Biloxi Housing Authority – Hope VI Is About To Provide Housing Hope Again

The Hope VI homes near Back Bay Boulevard look a lot different then they did when hurricane flood waters rushed through the 384 unit complex. Bobby Hensley is the Biloxi Housing Authority’s Director. “There was a point right after the storm where I didn’t know if we would have a housing authority here in Biloxi,” [...]

Hope VI homes hitting the market

The Young Group has been selected to market 18 new houses now under construction in Old South Baton Rouge as part of the Hope VI project. Ten of the houses are being built on Polk Street, while eight are being built on Thomas Delpit. The houses should be finished by the middle of the year. [...]

Atlantic City, N.J – Police find drugs, gun at Hope VI home

PLEASANTVILLE — It was supposed to be a new beginning. The Hope VI program has been moving families out of the troubled Woodland Terrace and into new homes throughout the city. But, police say, as soon as Donald Green and his mother moved from their Woodland apartment into a house on the 100 block of [...]

Coalition honors ‘smart growth’ at HOPE VI site

by: fcontrada@repub.com Two Northampton projects are among seven recognized recently by a coalition of planning organizations for addressing smart growth standards. The Village at Hospital Hill and a hotel scheduled to be built in the Roundhouse parking lot behind Pulaski Park earned bronze plaques at a ceremony in Holyoke last week. The awards were the [...]

Utica Minister says he’ll fight HOPE VI plan

  Observer-Dispatch rgamela@utica.gannett.com UTICA — A pastor plans to fight a Utica Municipal Housing Authority board decision to allow the construction of homes in Cornhill Commons, an area the authority originally designated for recreational and community use. The Rev. Tenolian Bell, pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church on Leah Street, said his congregation raised $20,000 [...]

Celebrated nun rips New Orleans housing plan

NEW ORLEANS – A celebrated nun called a federal plan to raze much of the city’s public housing a “sin” in one of several affidavits filed Thursday contesting the motion. Federal housing officials say four sprawling housing developments were rendered unfit for humans by Hurricane Katrina and must be destroyed. But Sister Helen Prejean —  [...]