Apartment City

Alyssa Mulliger Staff Writer @AMulligerSHJ Spartanburg native Tamela Lyles remembers the exact date she moved into unit No. 310 at Oakview Apartments in the city’s Northside neighborhood. It was Jan. 23, 2004, and she was 19 years old. Lyles lived in the 800-square-foot, two-bedroom apartment with her three children. The family experienced good and bad times at Oakview, keeping mostly to themselves except for associating with some residents a few doors down, Lyles said. Oakview's residents are gone now — the city began demolishing the units last week to make way for the new Dr. T.K. Gregg Community Center . While some former residents say the apartments provided a needed home, they also say moving has brought welcome changes and opened up a new life to them. Built in the late 1940s and early 1950s along Howard Street, the federally subsidized, low- income apartments lacked central air conditioning and had tiled floors and cinder block walls . Over the ...

How the fight against displacement calls for New York City’s Asian immigrant communities to defect from the “ model minority ” narrative. Media Gallery When NYU sophomore Sam Kim attended a rally outside Manhattan’s City Hall in March, he didn’t think that he would be ushered into the spotlight. Kim had learned of the rally through the local housing organization CAAAV (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence), which called on New Yorkers to oppose President Trump ’s proposed $6.2 billion cut to the 2018 budget of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This cut would dramatically reduce federal funding for New York City public housing , which currently provides rent-subsidized homes to 600,000 New Yorkers. Along the City Hall steps , Kim and two fellow student organizers joined a rare gathering of tenants from otherwise disparate peripheries of the city. Asian immigrants from Chinatown and Queens stood alongside Black and Latino residents of Brooklyn and the Bronx...

The Howard Hughes Corporation (NYSE:HHC) Q2 2017 Earnings Conference Call August 8, 2017, 10:00 AM ET Executives David Striph - Executive Vice President , Investor Relations David Weinreb - Chief Executive Officer Grant Herlitz - President David O’Reilly - Chief Financial Officer Peter Riley - General Counsel Analysts Alexander Goldfarb - Sandler O’Neill Robert Majek - CJS Securities Will Randall - Citigroup Waheed Khorsand - BWS Financial Alex Barron - Housing Research Center Steve Shaw - Compass Point Operator Good morning. And welcome to The Howard Hughes Corporation Second Quarter 2017 Earnings Conference Call . All participants will be in a listen-only mode. [ Operator Instructions ] After today’s presentation, there will be an opportunity to ask questions. [ Operator Instructions ] Please note, this event is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to David Striph, Executive Vice President , Investor Relations . Please go ahead. David Striph Good morning. A...