Sunday, January 10, 2010

Galveston public housing plans go to feds for review

Galveston County Daily News
Rhiannon Meyers // January 3, 2010

GALVESTON — The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will scrutinize Galveston Housing Authority’s plan to rebuild 569 hurricane-damaged public housing units to ensure public housing isn’t concentrated in one area, but the agency declined to comment further until it receives the agency’s redevelopment plans.

Like all reviews of redevelopment plans, the federal housing department will “want to see a housing plan that provides quality housing opportunities for all the residents, with good neighborhood amenities, and avoids concentration of the housing in any one area,” agency spokesman Brian Sullivan said.

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Social Justice Advocates Make Case For Annexation

California Planning & Development Report
Paul Shigley // November 9, 2009

The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has given new life to a lawsuit alleging that the City of Modesto and Stanislaus County discriminated against four predominately Latino communities.

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West Hollywood Multi-Family Moratorium Invalidated

California Planning & Development Report
Paul Shigley // December 28, 2009

A City of West Hollywood moratorium on new multi-family housing development has been declared invalid by the Second District Court of Appeal. The court ruled that the city had not made required findings for the moratorium.

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Developer sues Georgetown SC for more than $1 million

TheSunNews.com
Aliana Ramos // December 29, 2009

The developer of an
affordable housing apartment complex has sued the city of Georgetown for more than $1 million in damages, alleging the city violated the Fair Housing Act in preventing the project from being built.

"The bottom line is I think the city blocked a multi-family housing project because they wanted single-family homes," said attorney Benjamin Nicholson, who is representing Connelly Development LLC. "The problem is there is a disproportionate number of people in Georgetown who can't afford single-family homes," he said.

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City Walk Transitiona Housing Opens in Dallas

Homeless Transitional Housing Opens in Downtown Dallas