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Public housing failed miserably in Chicago. Why is the city now opening a housing museum?
National Museum of Public Housing leaders hope visitors see there’s more to life in public housing than what's on the news.
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Former NYC Public Housing Super From Hudson Valley Accepted $32K In Bribes: Here's His Fate
A former NYCHA superintendent from Rockland County will spend time in jail for accepting tens of thousands of dollars in ...
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Eagle Scout leads restoration project at Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx
A group of dedicated volunteers spent a day in November breathing new life into a long-neglected section of the historic ...
Buying a home — with a little help from friends
Each week, Jessica Ingram-Bee, a real estate agent in Jamaica Plain, helps Bostonians achieve the classic American dream: ...
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Bronx Affordable Housing Project Nears Completion with Major Financing Secured
The second phase of the project is set to begin as the ... appear poised to complete their affordable housing mixed-use development in the Bronx after fetching a $343 million loan to support ...
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Hell’s Kitchen Tenants Fight to Turn Neglected Buildings into Community-Owned Housing
Tired of broken boilers, illegal hotels and a landlord dubbed NYC’s worst ... and Housing Justice for All as well as supporters from Housing Conservation Coordinators, the West Side Neighborhood ...
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Who gets housing, and who is ‘disposable’?
The effect is reminiscent of “Random Family” (2003), Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s much-acclaimed portrait of life in a poor neighborhood in the Bronx ... owned housing projects came the Housing ...
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Bronx awarded $20 million grant for multiple beautification projects
Playground, bus stop improvements among list of Morris Park projects Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson shared she and other city partners are planning to use the $20 million to carry out a ...
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$87M affordable housing project breaks ground in the Bronx
In a city that has a shortage of affordable housing, there is significance in this new Bronx project. Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson declared, “It’s significant because it’s an ...
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NYC’s congestion pricing means more traffic—and pollution—in the South Bronx, one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods
On a frigid, gray morning this month, a half-dozen community advocates stood on a street corner in the South Bronx ... around these are a public housing project, several new residential high ...
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A new Bronx apartment building was meant to provide housing. Instead it’s a shelter.
A new brick apartment complex was supposed to add 134 units of much-needed housing to the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx when it ... They say the project developer has repeatedly converted ...
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Radical Plans for Public Housing Stir Up Hope, and Doubt
A plan would demolish aged housing projects in Chelsea and build new homes and thousands of additional apartments. It could be a game changer. The Fulton Houses in the Chelsea neighborhood of ...