Apartment City

Dhan Subedi flipped through sheets of apartment listings on Thursday, 15 days before the deadline for her four-person household to vacate Glenbrook Apartments . She’d circled and called the most affordable units in Boise. The earliest one would be available was Oct. 15, nearly a week after her deadline to leave a one-bedroom, $575-a-month apartment. Her 13-month-old son, Kaden, rolled around the floor at the feet of her mother, Mina Subedi. The families of both Dhan and her husband, Prem Subba, are Bhutanese, though Dhan was born during her family’s two-decade stay at a refugee camp in Nepal. Subba’s was one of thousands of Nepalese- speaking families evicted from the country. Located at the corner of South Curtis Road and Cassia Street, the family’s sparse Glenbrook unit is close to the Boise Airport, where Subba works, and State Street, where Subedi works at a market. It’s also close to the former Boise International Market , where the couple owned the Bhutanese and Nepali grocery...

I n the late afternoon of March 14 in the Toronto suburb of Woodbridge , a masked gunman jumped out of the passenger side of a black Jeep Cherokee , darted across a snow- dusted parking lot and unleashed a flurry of bullets into a black BMW. Thirty seconds later, he was back in the car, leaving Saverio Serrano – the son of a notorious Canadian Mafia figure and cocaine importer – wounded, and Mr. Serrano's 28-year-old girlfriend dead. Two weeks later, in the west end of Toronto, an SUV rolled into the driveway of a bungalow at the end of a suburban cul-de-sac around 2:30 a.m. As 53-year-old Antonio Sergi , a beefy, cigar-chomping showman known in Mafia circles as "Tony Large" or "T Large," got out of the car and lumbered toward the front door, he was shot in the head and killed, execution style. Convicted drug trafficker Diego Serrano , 69 is pictured in a police surveillance photo from Project OPHOENIX." class="article-media-photo__content_...

One of the developers who wanted to build a multimillion- dollar bungalow - style resort hotel in Los Alamos said the project has been killed by the agricultural buffer required by the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. Thomas and Matthew Ryan hoped to construct a hotel consisting of 44 bungalows and a main reception and registration building on a 2.1- acre site located at the west end of Bell Street behind the Welcome to Los Alamos sign . Thomas Ryan said he wasn’t building the hotel as a moneymaking project but as a business he and Matthew could retire to that would improve the community and economy of Los Alamos. When it was introduced to the community at a Los Alamos Planning Advisory Committee meeting , the reaction was generally favorable, although residents wanted a few changes and requests the Ryans were willing to meet, including giving residents a “membership” allowing them to use the pool and related facilities for free. But Thomas Ryan said the...

click to enlarge hosting 60 med students in Spokane" /> WSU is hosting 60 med students in Spokane UNLEASHING DEVELOPMENT How a city gets built often depends on the course of the markets — but choices made by the city government can alter the course in dramatic ways. At Monday's Spokane City Council meeting , the council passed several ordinances intended to spur DENSER DEVELOPMENT and improve neighborhood centers . For years, City Council President Ben Stuckart says, the city had offered 12-year, multifamily tax exemptions that were supposed to catalyze the development of affordable apartment housing . The problem, Stuckart says, is that nobody wanted to take them. The strings attached — set aside a fifth of the property as affordable housing for those making only 50 percent of the Spokane average income — made the prospect unprofitable for developers. On Monday, the council voted to dramatically weaken the income requirement , raising the affordable housin...

Dozens of posters, toys and trinkets adorn Anthony Anderson 's new studio apartment in Edina. Several of the items were given to him during his stay at a Minneapolis shelter . Anderson, now 22, kept track of how long he was homeless: three years and eight months. "Most of this is just donated stuff given to me," he said. "Whatever a person gives me, I don't complain, I just take it." One item does hold special meaning — a necklace with a small cross, hanging from the wall behind his bed. "That's the last thing I have from my grandmother," he said. "I always have it hanging above me, just to help me sleep." Anderson is one of 38 young adults living at 66 West Apartments, a housing complex for young people who have been homeless. Beacon Interfaith Housing Collaborative , the developer, held a grand opening last week for the $11.4 million complex. It's the third project of its kind that Beacon has developed and is its first in the...

On the morning that Alfonso Maldonado Silva was set to argue his first case before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena, Ca., he was too nervous to even drink a glass of juice for breakfast. So he decided to head to court early to review the case one last time. He said a short prayer asking for wisdom, then he showered, dressed in a neatly pressed gray suit , and on an overcast morning last April, headed out the door with his evidence binder in hand. He had been up since 5 a.m. Maldonado, a third- year law student at Western State College of Law in Orange County, had left nothing to chance. This would be his first time arguing a case in court before any judge. So he had arrived the night before to stay in a Pasadena hotel to avoid the clogged commute from his Corona apartment during rush-hour. The only thing on the 28-year-old’s mind was the law. Much was riding on this case. Maldonado and his fellow law student , Cristel Martinez Medina , were representing an undocumente...